Sustainable campuses: Building self-efficacy among academic, staff, and students of Green Office Model

Abstract

The goal of this study is to draw attention to the critical value of self-efficacy strategies, particularly the Green Office (GO) Model, which aims to improve collaboration among all stakeholders in higher education communities and serves as an example of what a campus sustainability office might entail. A two-step technique guides the research that is presented. To better understand the forces and obstacles preventing the institutionalization of GOs, first the features and similarities of currently existing GOs were examined. Based on this, a peer-to-peer digital training program was created and put to the test with the goal of giving students, employees, and academics the knowledge and abilities they need to start new sustainability offices and enhance the operations of those that already exist. The lack of adaptation of foreign experiences to different university environments, the absence of educational programs, and the scope of public relations were found to be the three key barriers to the spread of the GO model. The results demonstrate that GO offers a reproducible methodology that may be scaled internationally and modified for use in various university situations. The availability and capacity to obtain information from the actors at the sampled colleges outside of the immediate GO community have placed restrictions on this research.