The United Nations has set forth 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aimed at fostering social harmony by the year 2030. Lincoln University College (LUC) has been recognized for its commitment to these goals, specifically ranking at number 32 in the Times Higher Education of UK’s impact ranking for SDG number 4, which focuses on Quality Education. This acknowledgment underscores LUC’s dedication to providing high-quality education and contributing to sustainable development.

The Faculty of Innovation and Sustainable Development at Lincoln University was founded under the framework and backdrop of the “United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” and the “United Nations Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development (GAP)”, led and established personally by the president of Lincoln University in Malaysia. It serves as a multidisciplinary and cross-domain research platform and education and training center. Its purpose is to integrate educational and scientific research resources both within and outside Lincoln University, as well as internationally, to cultivate internationalized and compound elite talents equipped with innovative thinking and the concept of sustainable development. This is aimed at addressing various global challenges such as poverty and hunger, clean water and sanitation, health, education, climate change, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, etc., promoting the achievement of a balance and coordination of technological and economic development, social progress, and environmental protection globally, and facilitating the establishment of resource sharing, global project collaboration and partnerships, as well as high-quality interactive platforms for sustainable development within the global framework, thereby contributing to promoting innovation and global sustainable development.

The position of the faculty’s Dean is concurrently held by the university president. Professor Xiao Xudong, a well-known expert in Chinese education, was appointed as Executive

Vice-Dean.Meanwhile, Professor Richard Teng, the Director of Asia-Pacific Wrexham University in the UK and a globally renowned education expert, has been invited to assume the role of the Academic Vice-Dean. Dr. ZeonsekJunxi Lea, an internationally acclaimed expert in the fields of technological economy, innovation management, and sustainable development, has been appointed as the Vice president, responsible for international development. Ms Wendy JY Xie, who studied in the UK and a renowned expert in education quality control, has been recruited as the director of education quality to comprehensively supervise the management of education quality. The college integrates the knowledge systems of industry, academia, research, government, and business. It builds sustainable development education programs and curriculum systems centered around strategic planning, smart technology, and cross-border innovation, providing all-round sustainable development research, planning, management consulting, certification services, and educational exchanges for governments, non-governmental organizations, enterprises, colleges and universities, teachers, and students, etc. Furthermore, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Malaysia and the China-Malaysia Friendship Year, the College of Innovation and Sustainable Development actively undertook the construction of the “Chinese Student Service Center” of Lincoln University, becoming the first international high-level university in the Asia-Pacific region built by a foreign university outside China with a directly affiliated Chinese student service center. The school appointed Ms. Han Yan, a Chinese assistant to the president who traveled to Malaysia, a representative of Chinese affairs, and an expert in student work, as the director of the center, fully promoting the service work for Chinese international students and committing to cultivating internationalized and compound outstanding talents based in China and Malaysia and having a global reach, contributing to inclusive economic globalization and jointly building a peaceful, stable, prosperous, and symbiotic Asian homeland.