ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on evaluating transnational higher-education partnerships (THEPs) that possess sustainable-development objectives. It suggests pathways to improving process, outcome, and impact evaluations by treating horizontal partnering for transnational sustainable development (TSD). Higher-education institutions partner for sustainable development with foundations, ministries, private firms, NGOs, communities, and local governments as well as with other universities. Among universities in the North and the South, sustainable development has emerged as a popular, adaptable, and encompassing framework for transnational collaboration. For universities in the North, there are numerous potential benefits of partnership that fall within the purview of sustainable-development evaluations. Today's transnationally partnered university undertakes collaborative-research and community-outreach initiatives in diverse contexts on multiple continents. Transnational-institution building and human-capability development allows all partners to develop innovative approaches to complex problems and crises of sustainable development and to move on to higher levels of collaboration. Symmetrical THEP-sustainable-development evaluations balance external reviews with participation by the higher-education partners.
