University Social Responsibility Initiatives: An Empirical Study of Private and State Universities of Rajasthan

Devika Sharma, Dr Rashmi Sharma

doi:10.17762/pae.v58i1.1862

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Social responsibility is a leading term in today's world, whether it is related to profit-making corporations or non-profit organizations. Many corporations do social responsibility in terms of corporate social responsibility, but it is in terms of university social responsibility if we talk about universities. Universities have taken up different types of social responsibility initiatives in both developing and developed countries. Through social responsibility initiatives, there is a need to understand private and state universities' involvement in society and the environment. By imparting knowledge and empowering students, universities serve the Society; this study would observe other universities' social responsibility initiatives towards their Society and Environment. The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of social responsibility initiatives taken up by private and state universities of Rajasthan towards Society and environment. This paper is using survey research method based on simple random sampling and studying twenty private and state universities of Rajasthan by focusing two main dimensions service to Society and service to environment. The findings of this research show that Private and State Universities are doing more social responsibility initiatives towards Society rather than environment and based on hypothesis testing, it is concluded that there is no statistically significant difference between social responsibility initiatives taken up by private and state universities of Rajasthan while on the basis of the correlation and regression results, there is a significant impact of social responsibility initiatives taken up by private and state universities of Rajasthan towards society and environment. Social Responsibility Initiatives in state universities have a more positive attitude towards Society.

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India is the strongest democracy globally, and the secondmost populous country in the world and faces many challenges related to the environment and society
In terms of corporate social responsibility, most corporations are socially responsible, but if we talk about Universities, it is doing in terms of University social Responsibility
3 Findings and Discussions: The above elements listed in Table 1 were used in the questionnaires to know about the social responsibility initiatives taken up by private and state universities of Rajasthan, and correlation and regression analysis have been done to know about the impact of SR initiatives towards society www.psychologyandeducation.net and the environment

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India is the strongest democracy globally, and the secondmost populous country in the world and faces many challenges related to the environment and society. Social responsibility is an emerging concept in the current time, whether it is related to a profit-making organization or a non-profit organization. In terms of corporate social responsibility, most corporations are socially responsible, but if we talk about Universities, it is doing in terms of University social Responsibility. University Social Responsibility provides a unique platform through which we can nurture the students and make them socially responsible for community development. USR, CSR, and ISR play a significant role in forming the modern world by supplying socially conscious educational institutions, people, and businesses (TARA Panjwani 2019, April 08). Much of the CSR operations are carried out by young people between the ages of 18 and www.psychologyandeducation.net

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