In order to investigate the sustainability issues associated with
universities, a large-scale questionnaire survey was conducted
between May and June 2012 in SDU. SDU was founded in 1901 and
has eight campuses in three cities, i.e. Jinan, Weihai and Qingdao.
SDU is comprised of six divisions, 31 academic colleges/schools and
a number of professional departments (e.g. human resource management,
international office, finance, facility and asset management;
and capital construction). There were more than 60,000
faculty, staff and students at the time of this study. In the context of
this paper, faculty covers the current academic staff at the Shandong
University.