With over 140,000 students across its campuses and online programs, ASU embeds sustainability and community engagement into its institutional mission.
As a Collaboratory partner since 2019, ASU harnesses Collaboratory’s powerful platform to track, analyze, and amplify its engagement activities through the lens of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
ASU needed a strategic solution to systematically track and assess its diverse engagement initiatives while aligning them with a global framework. With faculty, staff, and students deeply involved in socially embedded work, the university sought a centralized system to categorize, visualize, and demonstrate its impact — both locally and globally.
Collaboratory provides ASU with a robust platform to categorize and analyze engagement efforts through the SDG framework:
Mapping Engagement Across All 17 SDGs
Collaboratory enables ASU to categorize initiatives within the SDG framework, providing a comprehensive and data-driven view of the university’s contributions to sustainable development.
Enhancing Strategic Decision-Making
ASU uses Collaboratory data to inform institutional strategies, effectively allocate resources, and align social embeddedness with university-wide sustainability goals. This data-driven approach strengthens ASU’s ability to drive systemic change.
Showcasing Local and Global Impact
Through Collaboratory, ASU can share its SDG-aligned engagement activities with internal and external stakeholders, strengthening its reputation as a global leader in higher education impact. Collaboratory empowers ASU to communicate its successes in sustainability, equity, and social embeddedness.
With Collaboratory, ASU has a centralized system to track engagement efforts across all SDGs, gained data-backed insights to inform strategic planning and decision-making, and enhanced its ability to communicate impact at a local, national, and global scale. Collaboratory allows ASU to tell a compelling, data-driven story about its contributions to sustainable development, reinforcing its leadership in global impact rankings.