Determining Sustainability Characteristics in Higher Education: A Relational Analysis

This research, which was conducted to determine the sustainability features of universities, was designed according to the relational model, one of the quantitative research methods. The sample comprises 370 academic and administrative staff from a university in Central Anatolia, Türkiye and selected from the universe using the simple random sampling method. Data in the research were collected through the “Sustainable School Characteristics Scale (SPS)”. Data were analyzed with the help of pairwise and multiple comparison techniques (independent samples t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)). The sustainable school characteristics perceived by the participants were determined according to the variables of gender, marital status, professional seniority, age, type of duty and unit of duty and the relationships between the variables were tried to be revealed. The fact that the sustainability features of the university were found to be relatively high at the “I agree” level is evaluated as the most important finding of the research. The findings were discussed in the context of the limitations of the research and various suggestions were made.