Students Social Responsibility Initiatives and Impact on University Performance : An Empirical Study from Lebanon

Social responsibility is a common path to go which will give the competitive advantage to the universities and students. Students create the basis for university social responsibility, yet the universities are responsible for developing and fostering the students towards being responsible. The purpose of this paper is to answer the question if the initiative towards social responsibility should be driven by the students or universities management. The current research study seeks the impact of the university social responsibility initiative laid on the performance of the universities and also on students. An appropriate sample size of 350 potential candidates currently enrolled and graduates were selected for the online survey by using SurveyMonkey. The study design was quantitative, and the questionnaire was used as data collection tool. The response of 200 sampling subjects was submitted. The questionnaire constituted the demographics information as well as itemized variables measured on 5 Point Likert scale. SPSS 19 has been used for statistical analysis. Findings of the results were calculated by applying frequency and correlation tests. The results showed that social responsibility initiatives and steps have significantly strong and positive relationship in boosting overall performance of the university. The current study suggested that the academicians should consider it to incorporate it in the study courses