This research focuses on the study of the contributions of three of the most important Mexican higher education institutions – National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), and University of Guadalajara (UDG) – to sustainable development (SD) considering public information from websites, as well as global, national, and local literature. The objectives were to understand how these HEIs integrate the SDGs into their institutional strategies and compare the extent to which they contribute to sustainable development. The analysis showed that the three institutions incorporated the 17 SDGs into their strategic plans, developed a specific organizational structure to manage and monitor sustainability, and reported multiple activities with different approaches and levels of contribution. These differences may be related to: (a) the diverse meanings that institutions give to sustainability; (b) the lack of clarity in the criteria that each institution uses to consider an activity as SDG-oriented/SDG-based; (c) the lack of transversality between institutional activities and the SDGs beyond discourse; and (d) institutional characteristics. In view of the above, we propose some ideas to promote institutional better practices and policies that favour, through higher education, accelerated progress towards the Global Goals and the 2030 Agenda.

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墨西哥三所高等教育机构对可持续发展的贡献：比较分析

本研究重点研究墨西哥三所最重要的高等教育机构——墨西哥国立自治大学 (UNAM)、蒙特雷技术与高等教育学院 (ITESM) 和瓜达拉哈拉大学 (UDG) 对可持续发展的贡献发展（SD）考虑来自网站的公共信息以及全球、国家和地方文献。目标是了解这些高等教育机构如何将可持续发展目标纳入其机构战略，并比较它们对可持续发展的贡献程度。分析显示，三个机构将17个可持续发展目标纳入其战略计划，制定了具体的组织结构来管理和监测可持续发展，并报告了具有不同方法和贡献水平的多项活动。这些差异可能与： (a) 机构赋予可持续性的不同含义； (b) 每个机构用于将某项活动视为面向可持续发展目标/基于可持续发展目标的标准不明确； (c) 机构活动与可持续发展目标之间缺乏超越讨论的横向性； (d) 机构特征。鉴于上述情况，我们提出了一些想法，以促进制度上更好的做法和政策，有利于通过高等教育加速实现全球目标和 2030 年议程。