Arizona State University (ASU), a top-ranked public research institution and recognized leader in innovation, is committed to driving meaningful social impact.
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).
The Challenge
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.
The Solution
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.
“Collaboratory has been instrumental in helping us understand and measure our social embeddedness efforts through the global framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. By leveraging this data, ASU is proud to be a leader in impact-driven institutional strategy.”
Christina Ngo
Executive Director of Social Embeddedness
The Outcome
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.
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