The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. SDGs are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly. The SDGs came into effect in January 2016 and will be ended in 2030. Various actors are playing role to achieve the goals. But how universities can contribute to achieve the goals?
Contribution of universities should be focus on research policies oriented in the understanding an problem-solving visions about SDG.
The university play numerous contributory roles to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Some of these roles are summarized below:
1. The university serves a social institution, thus a means through which sensitization and enlightenment can be carried out on societal people within its confines - students, academic staff (lecturers) and non-academic staff. This sensitization can be geared towards educating people on the ways to reduce poverty such as entrepreneurship and self-employment, and/ or protecting the planet (earth) through the use of renewable energy.
2. The universities are the den of scholars who through their researches and research findings, innovate better and improved means of achieving SDG's.
3. The university can serve as an instrument of ideological change and mental re-shaping of occupants of its environment by leading the role in the practice that will enable the achievement of SDG's; this will not only inculcate the practice on the occupants but will also internalize it within them that they begin to practice it even outside the confines of the university.
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