EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF COMMUNITY UNIVERSITIES

Sustainability is present in the university within the different systems that coexist there, being increasingly taken into account for teaching, research, extension and university management actions. Therefore, it is extremely important to research the way in which sustainability exerts influence in the management of universities and in their pedagogical sectors. Particularly when it comes to non-state public university, which is the case of community universities. The objective of this research is to highlight the elements that allow the integration of the sustainability theme from the perspective of contextual, organizational, curricular and pedagogical dimensions in community universities through strategic management. To this end, questionnaires and interviews with the managers of the community universities were applied. From this, it was tried to evidence the elements that allow the integration of the sustainability theme from the perspective of the contextual, organizational, curricular and pedagogical dimensions in community universities through strategic management, emphasizing as facilitator of the insertion of the theme the community character of these universities. Finally, it was possible to present possibilities of advancement for the integration of sustainability in community universities from the strategic management, especially as far as Comung's role in actions on the theme is concerned.