2023 Volume 45 Issue 1 Pages 125-130
Collaboration between faculty and clerical staff is considered desirable for a universityʼs operations. However, there are few published examples of faculty-staff collaboration in practice. Here, we discuss the need for research on faculty-staff collaboration, including collaboration among faculty members themselves, from the perspective of Goal 17 of the UNʼs Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We believe that such collaboration can contribute to strengthening partnerships with stakeholders. As for collaboration among faculty members, the details of an active learning research project at Mejiro University were reported and its potential was clearly indicated. We also pointed out the need for a common understanding of the definition of terms when discussing faculty collaboration, and that a situation in which one of the stakeholdersʼ positions is unilaterally strong is not a healthy situation for the sustainability of the university.
