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CSU seeks Indigenous students in western NSW
19 Feb 2008
Nursing, education and business courses offered on Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Dubbo Campus will be the focus for CSU staff next week as they travel and talk to Aboriginal people in remote communities in western NSW. Director of the University’s Centre for Indigenous Studies and Head of Dubbo Campus, Mr Gary Shipp, said “This will be the first opportunity for people in some of these communities to meet senior CSU staff and discuss the courses that are available to them. It is important to talk with the local Aboriginal people about what CSU can offer, especially the newly established Centre for Indigenous Studies at Dubbo Campus.” The group will travel to Hay, Balranald, Dareton, Broken Hill and Wilcannia to visit public and private primary and secondary schools, local councils, health organisations and TAFE facilities.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Mr Gary Shipp. Participants in the recruiting trip include Mr Gary Shipp, Director, CSU Centre for Indigenous Studies and Head of CSU Dubbo Campus; Professor Elaine Duffy, Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery; Mr Ray Eldridge, Manager, Indigenous Support Units (across all CSU campuses); Mr Joe Hull, Community Liaison Officer, Indigenous Support Unit-Bathurst; Mr Daniel Clegg, Community Liaison Officer, Indigenous Support Unit (Albury); and Mr John Nolan, Community Consultant.
Print this story Clinic celebrates five years? service
19 Feb 2008
 Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Allied Health Clinic this week celebrates five years serving the people of Albury-Wodonga and surrounding districts. Since 19 February 2003, the clinic has treated over 4 000 clients, mostly with foot and associated conditions. “And just as important, over 70 future podiatrists have received a well supervised, practical education in podiatry as they have worked in the clinic as part of their coursework,” said CSU Clinic manager, Mr Matt Austin. “The clinic is a vital part of CSU’s podiatry course as our students receive close supervision from qualified CSU staff in a hands-on, practical setting. Our graduates, who are very likely to be employed in rural and regional Australia, can start working as podiatrists with confidence in their skills and knowledge.” The clinic is now calling for new patients who will be assessed and treated by podiatry students under the supervision of qualified podiatrists. For an appointment at the CSU Allied Health Clinic, telephone the reception on 02 6051 6922.
Media Note: For interviews with CSU Allied Health Clinical manager Mr Matt Austin, contact CSU Media
Print this story International forum for women?s rights
19 Feb 2008
 Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic Professor Margaret Alston heads off to New York tomorrow 12 February to take up her role as Australia’s non-government representative to the 2008 meeting of the United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women. Due to be held at the UN headquarters from Monday 25 February to Friday 7 March, the 52nd session of the Commission will be held under the theme of ‘Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women’. The Professor of Social Work and Human Services was selected last year by the Federal Government to join the Australian delegation. Professor Alston has researched widely in the field of rural social issues and is internationally recognised for her work into rural Australia. Established in 1946, the UN Commission on the Status of Women is a committee of the UN Economic and Social Council.
Media Note: Professor Margaret Alston departs CSU on Wednesday 20 February and is due to return to the University on Wednesday 12 March. For interviews or photos, contact CSU Media.
Print this story CSU book an international effort
12 Feb 2008
A book on economic globalisation with local, national and international contributions edited by CSU academics will be officially launched by the Vice-Chancellor and President of Charles Sturt University (CSU), Professor Ian Goulter, on Wednesday 13 February. Engagement & Change - Exploring Management, Economic and Finance Implications of a Globalising Environment, examines the issue of globalisation from diverse perspectives. Co-editor Dr PK Basu, Associate Head of the School of Marketing & Management at CSU’s Bathurst Campus, said the book contains “23 papers by Australian and international researchers from different disciplines and addresses the effects of globalisation on areas such as management, economics, finance, accounting, marketing and human resources”. Contributors included 19 academics from CSU and from seven other Australian universities, as well as from the United Kingdom, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with the book’s editors Associate Professor PK Basu and Professor Grant O’Neill. The book will be officially launched by CSU Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Ian Goulter, at 3.30pm on Wednesday 13 February at Heffron Building, CSU Bathurst Campus. Print this story Mistreatment victims needed for CSU research
12 Feb 2008
A Charles Sturt University (CSU) psychology student is looking for volunteers from the Blayney-Bathurst-Orange area to participate in her research project on victims of mistreatment. Ms Belinda Harris said her research is designed to assist people aged 18 years or older who continue to experience distress, hurt or pain caused by others. “Participants will be invited to take part in a group treatment program that has been designed to assist people who believe they have been abused or significantly hurt by the actions of another individual or group,” Ms Harris said. “The treatment is for people who want to reduce the anger, hurt and discomfort they may feel as a result of interpersonal injustice.” For further information, with no obligation to participate, contact Ms Harris on 0401 276 322 or via email.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Ms Belinda Harris. Print this story CSU appoints new facilities boss
12 Feb 2008
With a background in business planning and policy development, Mr Stephen Butt has been appointed the new Executive Director of Facilities Management at Charles Sturt University (CSU). Mr Butt, who is an experienced engineer and project manager, comes to CSU from the Greater Southern Area Health Service based in Wagga Wagga. The former fitter and turner who trained in Wollongong, has post graduate qualifications in engineering management. At CSU he will oversee the largest set of building projects ever embarked on by the University, with academic facilities and services and student residences worth $240 million being constructed over five years from 2007 on its campuses in Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Orange, Dubbo and Wagga Wagga. This includes nearly $45 million to be spent by 2009 on the expansion of the Albury-Wodonga Campus.
Media Note: For interviews with Mr Butt, contact CSU Media. Print this story CSU raises support off campus
12 Feb 2008
 New Charles Sturt University (CSU) students living off campus will receive a helping hand in the initial challenging weeks of university life. First trialled in 2007, a mentor scheme aims to help new students settle into University and their accommodation in the wider community. The Off campus Student Community Advisors (OSCA) Scheme will be trialled on CSU’s Bathurst and Wagga Wagga campuses during the first six weeks of the 2008 Autumn Session. “This scheme mirrors the long running and highly successful Residential Advisers (RA) scheme for students living on campus,” said OSCA supervisor Chris Roche. “It will help new students living in the wider community to find their way through the maze of early days at university,” he said. The scheme aims to improve retention rates in the critical first session of a student’s study. The Off campus Advisors are recruited from existing CSU students. In addition to being the first point of contact for support, the Advisers will offer the new students a six week program of social activities. Orientation 2008 at CSU began on Monday 11 February.
Media Note: Off campus Student Community Advisors supervisor, Mr Chris Roche from the CSU Division of Student Services is available for interview as is OSCA, Ms Vanessa King. Contact CSU Media. Print this story New staff help growth in Orange
12 Feb 2008
Charles Sturt University (CSU) staff will meet on Thursday 14 February to propagate native plants on the CSU Orange Campus for the Summer Hill Creekcare group as one of several community projects taking place in 2008. New staff have been invited to join the CSU group who spend a few hours each month collecting seed in the field, cleaning and propagating seed and potting seedlings. The seedlings are then planted on Orange Campus and in other parts of the Summer Hill Creek catchment. “This is a great way to get involved in the community,” rural management lecturer and group coordinator Cilla Kinross explains. This conservation project - propagating trees, shrubs and grasses - is one of many undertaken by CSU, Australia’s largest inland university.
Media Note: For interviews and pictures, Cilla Kinross and the staff group will meet at the CSU Orange Campus Horticulture Centre at 1pm on Thursday 14 February. Print this story Let the games begin - Orange
05 Feb 2008
 The exciting challenge of starting university faces over 2 500 students during Orientation 2008, up to a week of academic and social activities at Charles Sturt University (CSU) from Monday 11 February. The program is designed by CSU to help the students adjust to their new University surroundings before the commencement of on-campus classes on Monday 18 February. Compulsory academic advisory and information sessions have been organised for the new students as well as a variety of social activities. Throughout the week, the new students and their parents will be able to tour the campus, seek information about living on or off campus, visit the library, meet their new lecturers and tutors or simply get their student identification cards. Students can also seek the advice of Orientation coordinators and leaders. Dressed in distinctive blue t-shirts, they are group of selected and trained CSU students who have returned to CSU a week earlier to help the new recruits in the transition to university life. With the theme of ‘Orientation Games’ in honour of this year’s Olympic Games, Orientation 2008 programs are being conducted at the Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange and Wagga Wagga campuses as well as in Canberra and Parramatta.
Media Note: The programs for Orientation 2008, including details of activities and official welcome ceremonies can be found here. Nik Granger from the CSU Division of Student Services is available for interview. Contact CSU Media. About 150 new students are due to start at CSU's Orange Campus in 2008.
Print this story Let the games begin - Dubbo
05 Feb 2008
The exciting challenge of starting university faces over 2 500 students during Orientation 2008, up to a week of academic and social activities at Charles Sturt University (CSU) from Monday 11 February. The program is designed by CSU to help the students adjust to their new University surroundings before the commencement of on-campus classes on Monday 18 February. Compulsory academic advisory and information sessions have been organised for the new students as well as a variety of social activities. Throughout the week, the new students and their parents will be able to tour the campus, seek information about living on or off campus, visit the library, meet their new lecturers and tutors or simply get their student identification cards. Students can also seek the advice of Orientation coordinators and leaders. Dressed in distinctive blue t-shirts, they are group of selected and trained CSU students who have returned to CSU a week earlier to help the new recruits in the transition to university life. With the theme of ‘Orientation Games’ in honour of this year’s Olympic Games, Orientation 2008 programs are being conducted at the Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange and Wagga Wagga campuses as well as in Canberra and Parramatta.
Media Note: The programs for Orientation 2008, including details of activities and official welcome ceremonies can be found here. Stewart McKinney from the CSU Division of Student Services is available for interview. Contact CSU Media. About 110 new students are due to start at CSU's Dubbo Campus in 2008.
Print this story Let the games begin - Bathurst
05 Feb 2008
The exciting challenge of starting university faces over 2 500 students during Orientation 2008, up to a week of academic and social activities at Charles Sturt University (CSU) from Monday 11 February. The program is designed by CSU to help the students adjust to their new University surroundings before the commencement of on-campus classes on Monday 18 February. Compulsory academic advisory and information sessions have been organised for the new students as well as a variety of social activities. Throughout the week, the new students and their parents will be able to tour the campus, seek information about living on or off campus, visit the library, meet their new lecturers and tutors or simply get their student identification cards. Students can also seek the advice of Orientation coordinators and leaders. Dressed in distinctive blue t-shirts, they are group of selected and trained CSU students who have returned to CSU a week earlier to help the new recruits in the transition to university life. With the theme of ‘Orientation Games’ in honour of this year’s Olympic Games, Orientation 2008 programs are being conducted at the Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange and Wagga Wagga campuses as well as in Canberra and Parramatta.
Media Note: The programs for Orientation 2008, including details of activities and official welcome ceremonies can be found here. The CSU Orientation Week coordinator Paul Shaw is available for interview. Contact CSU Media. About 900 new students are due to start at CSU's Bathurst Campus in 2008.
Print this story Let the games begin - Albury-Wodonga
05 Feb 2008
The exciting challenge of starting university faces over 2 500 students during Orientation 2008, up to a week of academic and social activities at Charles Sturt University (CSU) from Monday 11 February. The program is designed by CSU to help the students adjust to their new University surroundings before the commencement of on-campus classes on Monday 18 February. Compulsory academic advisory and information sessions have been organised for the new students as well as a variety of social activities. Throughout the week, the new students and their parents will be able to tour the campus, seek information about living on or off campus, visit the library, meet their new lecturers and tutors or simply get their student identification cards. Students can also seek the advice of Orientation coordinators and leaders. Dressed in distinctive blue t-shirts, they are group of selected and trained CSU students who have returned to CSU a week earlier to help the new recruits in the transition to university life. With the theme of ‘Orientation Games’ in honour of this year’s Olympic Games, Orientation 2008 programs are being conducted at the Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange and Wagga Wagga campuses as well as in Canberra and Parramatta.
Media Note: The programs for Orientation 2008, including details of activities and official welcome ceremonies can be found here. Kerry Read from the CSU Division of Student Services is available for interview. Contact CSU Media. About 450 new students are due to start at CSU's Albury-Wodonga Campus in 2008.
Print this story Let the games begin - Wagga Wagga
05 Feb 2008
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Media Note: The programs for Orientation 2008, including details of activities and official welcome ceremonies can be found here. About 1 000 new students are due to start in 2008 at CSU's Wagga Wagga Campus. Also see details of HSC Chemistry Days at CSU in Wagga Wagga during Orientation 2008. Print this story RIPPLE effect on education and health
05 Feb 2008
 A Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic has suggested that current threats to education as a profession will need a renewal of the profession, its professional bodies and the intellectual traditions that guide educational practice. The identified need for change is contained in a new book, 'Enabling Praxis' written by Professor Stephen Kemmis from CSU’s School of Education. The book will be launched at the upcoming Action Research and Professional Practice Conference to be hosted by University’s Research Institute for Professional Practice, Learning and Education (RIPPLE). The conference has attracted over 110 professionals from across Australia and overseas. The event will be held at Wagga Wagga’s Country Comfort Motel on Thursday 7 February and Friday 8 February. RIPPLE Director, Professor Tom Lowrie says some of the world’s most respected education and health scholars, from Norway, Sweden, the UK, Finland and Australia, will gather to discuss and debate issues associated with professional practice, mainly in the disciplines of health and education.
Media Note: For interviews with CSU academic and author Professor Stephen Kemmis or RIPPLE Director, Professor Tom Lowrie, contact CSU Media. RIPPLE is a multi-disciplinary research institute at CSU that conducts high-quality strategic and applied research and consultation in the field of practice and the link between practice, learning and education. More information is available for the conference website here. Print this story CSU puts muscle into Indonesian Olympic team
05 Feb 2008
 A Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic has signed contracts with the Indonesian National Olympic Committee (INOC) to continue to provide strength and conditioning coaching to the Indonesian Olympic team up to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Dr Stephen Bird, an academic in exercise rehabilitation at the School of Human Movement Studies at CSU’s Bathurst Campus, was engaged by the INOC in May 2007 as Head of Team Management (Strength and Conditioning). “Following the introductory trial period with the INOC, and our success at the 2007 South East Asian Games in Thailand where Indonesia won 56 gold medals, I was asked to continue to provide expert support to the Indonesia National Olympic team,” said Dr Bird. “We shall be providing strength and conditioning services to the 16 sports Indonesia will compete in at Beijing. The contract also allows final year students from CSU’s School of Human Movement Studies to attend work experience placements with me while I am in Jakarta, with two students already attending. These opportunities provide invaluable experience for our students with support from the School and the University’s Faculty of Education.”
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with CSU’s Dr Stephen Bird.
Print this story Rainforest reflections
05 Feb 2008
 Charles Sturt University's (CSU) Associate Professor David Watson will take visitors on a personal journey into a world of vivid colours and fleeting glimpses. He will share his experiences with the unique and fragile biodiversity of Latin America’s rainforests in a public presentation in Albury on Monday 11 February. Professor Watson, a leading researcher with the University’s Institute for Land, Water and Society (ILWS), is an ecologist and avid photographer who has travelled extensively through Central America to study the plants and animals of these forests. The free presentation, which starts at 5.30pm in the Albury Library Museum, will be followed by light refreshments. The event is part of an exhibition of Professor Watson’s forest photographs in the Albury Library Museum. Entitled Estudios del bosque: studies of the forest, the exhibition is hosted by CSU and Albury City from Monday 11 January to Sunday 24 February.
Media Note: For interviews with CSU’s Associate Professor David Watson, contact Margrit Beemster from the Insititute for Land, Water and Society on (02) 6051 9653 or CSU Media.
Print this story Asimus honoured at CSU
05 Feb 2008
More than 500 mourners have attended a memorial service at the Charles Sturt University (CSU) Wagga Wagga Campus on Monday 4 February to honour former Chancellor, Dr David Asimus, AO, who died on Australia Day 2008. Moving tributes to Dr Asimus were delivered in eulogies from Ian Macintosh, Ian Sully and son-in-law James Sutherland. The congregation included the Hon. Kay Hull, federal Member for Riverina; The Hon. Daryl McGuire, NSW Member for Wagga; John Fairfax, Chairman, Fairfax Media, the Hon. Tim Fischer, Former Deputy Prime Minister; The Rev. Archbishop Francis Carroll, Catholic Bishop of Canberra; Mr Lawrie Willet AO, Chancellor CSU and Mr James Sutherland, CEO Cricket Australia. Dr Asimus was elected the foundation Chancellor of CSU in 1989 and served in this post until 2002. As Chancellor, he oversaw the integration of the Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education and Mitchell College of Advanced Education to form the new Charles Sturt University.
Media Note: For interviews contact CSU Media. Print this story CSU mourns the death of Mr Peter Hastie (7.10.28 - 29.1.08)
01 Feb 2008
Charles Sturt University (CSU) is mourning the death of one of its founding fathers, Mr Peter Hastie, who passed away on Tuesday 29 January at Eltham Lodge in Victoria at the age of 79. Mr Hastie was appointed on 16 October 1969 as Chairman of the Interim Council of the Riverina College of Advanced Education (RCAE), and then as Chairman of the Council until 30 June 1982. At the time, he was the longest serving Chairman of the governing body of an institute of higher education in New South Wales. Under his Chairmanship, RCAE grew from a small single-purpose institution, with fewer than 450 students, to the ninth largest College of Advanced Education in Australia. Mr Hastie was also a driving force behind the relocation of the former Wagga Teachers’ College to land adjoining the Wagga Agricultural College. The CSU Boorooma site stands as direct evidence of Mr Hastie’s vision, energy and insight. The Peter Hastie Ovals, located at the CSU Wagga Wagga Campus, were named in his honour on 21 October 1992. A funeral service for Mr Peter Hastie will be held at the Le Pine Chapel at Eltham, Victoria, on Monday 4 February commencing at 12 noon. Mr Hastie is survived by daughters Janet Twigden, Fiona Cropley and son Warwick Hastie.
Media Note: A funeral service for Mr Peter Hastie will be held at the Le Pine Chapel at Eltham, Victoria, on Monday 4 February commencing at 12 noon. Mr Hastie is survived by daughters Janet Twigden, Fiona Cropley and son Warwick Hastie. For interviews contact CSU Media.
Print this story CSU?s Indigenous employment initiative
29 Jan 2008
Charles Sturt University (CSU) is continuing its commitment to Indigenous employment through an initiative designed to encourage the recruitment of Indigenous people into all areas of CSU management. The University of inland Australia will provide $200 000 through its Indigenous Employment Incentive Scheme (IEIS) for Indigenous recruitment during 2008. The objectives of the scheme are to increase the percentage of Indigenous staff in middle management and provide enhanced career paths for Indigenous staff on traineeships to move into higher management levels. Karen Kime, CSU Indigenous Employment Coordinator, says the initiative will also build confidence among supervisors in selecting and retaining Indigenous staff, encourage the appointment of Indigenous staff to permanent positions, as opposed to fixed term, and foster a work culture that enables Indigenous staff to succeed. Indigenous Employment at CSU increased steadily during 2007 with the appointment of 10 trainees under the Structured Training and Employment Program (STEP), supported by the federal Department of Employment, Education and Workplace Relations.
Media Note: CSU offers many workplace opportunities that encourage the success of Indigenous employees, including the Indigenous Staff Network and the Indigenous Staff Conference, initiated in 2007. For more information contact Karen Kime, the Indigenous Employment Coordinator on 02 6933 2731 or send an email. For interviews contact CSU Media. Print this story CSU condolence book for founding chancellor
29 Jan 2008
Following the death of the former Charles Sturt University (CSU) Chancellor, Dr David Asimus, AO, on Saturday 26 January 2008, the University has today opened an electronic condolences book. The University invites members of the community to express their condolences to Dr Asimus’ family. The condolences book will remain open until Friday 8 February 2008. The University will then collate the correspondence into a bound booklet to present to Dr Asimus’ widow, Jane and her family as a memorial to her late husband’s work with CSU and inland Australia. People wishing to extend a condolence are asked to please email their comments by Friday 8 February 2008.
Media Note: Details of Dr David Asimus’ life and work can be found here. Print this story
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he exciting challenge of starting university faces over 2 500 students during Orientation 2008, up to a week of academic and social activities at Charles Sturt University (CSU) from Monday 11 February. The program is designed by CSU to help the students adjust to their new University surroundings before the commencement of on-campus classes on Monday 18 February. Compulsory academic advisory and information sessions have been organised for the new students as well as a variety of social activities. Throughout the week, the new students and their parents will be able to tour the campus, seek information about living on or off campus, visit the library, meet their new lecturers and tutors or simply get their student identification cards. Students can also seek the advice of Orientation coordinators and leaders. Dressed in distinctive blue t-shirts, they are group of selected and trained CSU students who have returned to CSU a week earlier to help the new recruits in the transition to university life. With the theme of ‘Orientation Games’ in honour of this year’s Olympic Games, Orientation 2008 programs are being conducted at the Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange and Wagga Wagga campuses as well as in Canberra and Parramatta.