This article presents a comprehensive university management model based on a vulnerability-and-risk approach, designed to promote institutional sustainability. The growing challenges posed by climate change, socioeconomic instability, and energy crises provide sufficient grounds to propose a management framework that integrates key components, including the environment, a vulnerability perspective, a management approach, resilience strategies, institutional governance, and a monitoring system. The model adopts a systemic, preventive approach, enabling the identification of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity factors within the university context. The methodology is based on a descriptive and proactive analysis of interrelated variables, drawn from empirical evidence and an updated literature review. It is concluded that this model serves as a tool to strengthen institutional resilience and promote an organizational culture oriented towards sustainable development.