Abstract: Commitment of higher education to the public good through research, teaching, and civic engagement is essential to advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We conducted a global online survey with Student Affairs practitioners in more than 50 countries and found that over half of our respondents have made SDGs a priority in their work, although with considerable variance in awareness, knowledge, and use of SDGs. Overall, Quality Education (SDG 4), Good Health and Wellbeing (SDG 3), and Gender Equality (SDG 5) ranked as the top three SDGs relevant to student affairs. Most of the responding practitioners who embraced SDGs did so as part of strategic planning, diversity and inclusion efforts, student engagement, and success work, and in relation to graduate attributes. More work is needed to raise Student Affairs practitioners’ awareness of SDGs and illustrate to them the value and application of SDGs in student affairs work. Adoption of an SDGs framework could guide practice, shift paradigms, and directly impact student success and graduate attributes. Additional cross-region, in- region, and country-specific research is recommended to investigate the findings of this work.
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