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Galloping into holiday fun
31 Mar 2009
 With parents aware of the importance of life skills for children, Charles Sturt University (CSU) is offering its first Equine School to be held in the NSW school holidays in April. CSU will also help school students contemplating a career in the horse industry with a tailored holiday course in horse riding. “The school is also ideal for young or green horses to enable their owners to provide valuable exposure away from familiar surroundings, with horses given sound basics to go on with at home,” course coordinator Ms Cheryl Gander said. “Sharing life with horses is a wonderful tool in learning important life skills, especially for younger children and teenagers. Horses can teach things like responsibility, humility and patience – all important in everyday life.” The school will be run by experienced instructors in a safe, controlled environment at the CSU Equine Centre at Orange.
Media Note: CSU’s Equine Centre, located on the Orange Campus is holding two four-day short courses during the Easter holidays for children and adults from Tuesday 14 to Friday 17 April, and from Tuesday 21 to Friday 24 April. The courses cost $440. Self-catered accommodation is available on CSU Orange Campus. For more information contact CSU Media. Print this story Graduation honours for social justice work
31 Mar 2009
 A Charles Sturt University (CSU) student who has made a ‘tangible difference’ to the delivery of community and health services in rural and remote communities has received the Lila Kirilik Social Action Prize. Ms Lee-Anne Drewery will be presented with the annual social justice award when she receives her Bachelor of Social Work from CSU in Wagga Wagga on Thursday 2 April. Now employed as the Community Projects Officer for the Central Darling Shire Council in Wilcannia, Ms Drewery was selected by staff from the CSU School of Humanities and Social Sciences for her work while on placement at the council in 2008. “Lee-Anne completed a service mapping project of the towns of Wilcannia, Menindee and Ivanhoe with the hope of improving service delivery to this very disadvantaged region,” said CSU lecturer Dr Juliane Allan. The Lila Kirilik Social Action Prize was established in 2004 in honour of the late Ms Lila Kirilik, senior lecturer in Social Welfare at CSU.
Media Note: Ms Lee-Anne Drewery will graduate with a Bachelor of Social Work and receive the Lila Kirilik Social Action Prize from 10.30am on Thursday 2 April, at Joyes Hall, Pine Gully Road, CSU, Wagga Wagga. Further details about six graduation ceremonies at CSU at Wagga Wagga from Wednesday 1 April until Friday 3 April can be found here. Print this story Leading Australian joins CSU Council
24 Mar 2009
 Director of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and the former Director of the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, Dr Dawn Casey, PSM, FAHA has been appointed to the Charles Sturt University (CSU) Council. Dr Casey is the newest member of the University’s governing body following her appointment by the NSW Minister for Education and Training, the Hon. Verity Firth, MP, on recommendation from the CSU Council. Dr Casey, who is nationally and internationally recognised for her leadership of the Powerhouse Museum, the National Museum and the Western Australian Museum, has been appointed until June 2011. Dr Casey has made a major contribution to Indigenous policies and programs in Australia as well as to Australia’s cultural heritage, including. the establishment of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. She also initiated the joint Commonwealth-State response to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody as a senior executive in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Dr Casey’s appointment comes as the University celebrates the 20th anniversary of its establishment through the Charles Sturt University Act 1989. Read more here.
Media Note: Further information about the CSU Council including membership is available here. Print this story Celebrating graduation in Orange
24 Mar 2009
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Charles Sturt University (CSU) will recognise academic excellence among its graduating students and the wider community at Graduation in Orange on Friday 27 March. Included in the 154 graduates will be Mr Yann Guisard, Orange-based associate lecturer at the CSU School of Agriculture and Wine Science, who will be awarded his PhD. “My studies have been challenging at times and I’ve really valued the support I received from lecturers while I completed my doctorate,” Mr Guisard said. The occasional address will be given by Professor Peter Carroll, who, for the past 35 years, has worked in academic, community and hospital pharmacy as well as in medical and marketing positions within the pharmaceutical industry. The ceremony will be opened by CSU Chancellor, Mr Lawrence Willett, AO.
Media Note: CSU graduation ceremony at Orange will take place at 10.30am on Friday 27 March at Derek Pigot Auditorium, Kinross Wolaroi School, 59 – 67 Bathurst Road, Orange. Media are invited to attend at 10am. For interviews contact CSU Media. Print this story Securing the future of agricultural education
24 Mar 2009
 Ensuring a bright future for Australia’s agricultural industry through improved education of its future leaders will bring academics and industry representatives together at Charles Sturt University (CSU) at Wagga Wagga on Thursday 26 March. Hosted by the CSU School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, the industry advisory day will focus on the improvements made of the Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree, including the introduction of work placement in the course’s final year. “Various agricultural industry organisations will attend to help forge new relationships between the employers and educators of agriculturalists and to work on plans for the future to improve agricultural education in Australia,” said CSU lecturer Dr Alison Southwell. “By working together to produce the next generation of agriculturalists, we can make our graduates more ‘work ready’ and more capable of handling the challenges that agriculture faces in the future.”
Media Note: CSU lecturer in the School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, Dr Alison Southwell is available for interview on (02) 6933 2632. The industry advisory day will run from 8.30am until 4pm on Thursday 26 March at the Convention Centre, CSU at Wagga Wagga. A short morning tea break will be held from 10am and lunch will be held from 12.30pm until 1.30pm, when a tour of CSU at Wagga Wagga will be conducted for industry representatives. Print this story Western Research Institute turns 10
17 Mar 2009
 The Western Research Institute (WRI) at Charles Sturt University (CSU) at Bathurst is celebrating 10 years of research that has charted and informed developments in rural and regional Australia. CSU Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Ian Goulter, complimented the organisation on this milestone, saying “WRI is celebrating its 10th birthday in the same year that Charles Sturt University is celebrating its 20th. WRI and CSU have worked together on many projects that have helped shape and paint a picture of inland Australia. On behalf of CSU, I congratulate WRI on this significant achievement and look forward to working with the organisation over the next 10 years.” WRI Director, Mr Tom Murphy, said that when the WRI was established in 1999 the aim was to provide timely and factual data about trends and developments in regional Australia and the organisation has exceeded that aim. See more CSU 20th anniversary events here.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Western Research Institute's Mr Tom Murphy. Staff and supporters of the WRI will toast its anniversary and success at a function at the Rafters Bar,CSU at Bathurst from 5 to 6.30pm on Wednesday 18 March. Print this story CSU lecturers to coach Indonesian athletes
17 Mar 2009
 Lecturers at Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) School of Human Movement Studies have been contracted to provide strength and fitness coaching for elite Indonesian athletes. Dr Stephen Bird and Mr Ben Barrington-Higgs have received a new contract from the Indonesian government’s State Ministry of Youth and Sport Affairs, with Dr Bird leading the Indonesian National Top-Tier Athlete Program for 2009. “We are very excited by this development because this is the first time that the Indonesian government has run the Top-Tier Program,” Dr Bird said. “This program supports the top 300 athletes in 45 sports across the broad categories of combat, target, field and water. We have two physical preparation coaches in Indonesia who we oversee, and in April we will travel to Indonesia as part of preparations for the South-East Asian Games in December 2009.” Mr Barrington-Higgs is in charge of the coach and athlete education program.
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with CSU lecturers, Dr Stephen Bird or Mr Ben Barrington-Higgs. Print this story Communication hosts myDay at CSU
17 Mar 2009
 By staging its first myDay at Charles Sturt University (CSU) on Tuesday 24 March, the School of Communication at Bathurst is wasting no time in attracting future students to its courses. Head of School, Associate Professor Rod McCulloch, said myDay is designed to give students from the region a taste of university life and the School of Communication by making CSU ‘their University for a day’. “We expect about 60 students from high schools in the Bathurst region will tour the University,” Professor McCulloch said. “Rather than just observe, they will engage in lectures, tutorials, workshops and other student activities. We aim to show potential students why the CSU School of Communication has such a strong reputation for consistently producing highly employable, work-ready graduates for a range of industry sectors, and why Charles Sturt University should be their first choice when applying to study.”
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews with Head of School of Communication Associate Professor Rod McCulloch. Print this story Biomedical graduates to address current students
17 Mar 2009
 Recent graduates from the Charles Sturt University (CSU) School of Biomedical Sciences at Bathurst, will return to the University on Tuesday 24 March to speak to nursing and paramedic students about career prospects and the value of their CSU studies. Senior lecturer and course coordinator, Ms Veronica Madigan, said, “This is the first time recent graduates from the School will speak to current third year students. These graduates have told me how they now realise the value of their CSU education and want to let third year students know of the job opportunities available in the health sector. They will talk about life after CSU, how they have found working full-time, and how the course has assisted their career progression and current occupations. They are very passionate about CSU and recognise that it is a great University.”
Media Note: Contact CSU Media to arrange interviews. The graduates will speak to current students in lecture room G1 in building C2 at CSU Bathurst at about 9.15am on Tuesday 24 March. The returning graduates are Mr Nathan Smith (medicine), Mr Todd Swinnerton (NSW Ambulance Service), and Mr Daniel McIntosh (nurse at Westmead Hospital in Sydney). Print this story Call to rethink investment in land conservation
10 Mar 2009
 Governments across Australia have spent billions of dollars on programs to encourage rural landholders to implement sustainable farming and biodiversity conservation practices, but has this money been well spent? Drawing on his research in south eastern Australia, Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic Professor Allan Curtis will address this question when he speaks at the Fenner Conference on the Environment in Canberra on Wednesday 11 March. Professor Curtis will highlight the reality that most conservation work undertaken by private landholders is not funded by governments and that government investment in conservation programs, particularly those that invest in building and engaging human and social capital in rural communities, makes a difference. “The ‘business as usual’ approaches to engaging rural landholders are unlikely to work in the future given the remarkable change occurring as a large proportion of longer-term owners leave the land,” he said.
Media Note: For interviews contact CSU Media. Professor Allan Curtis, Professor of Integrated Environmental Management at CSU at Albury-Wodonga, will speak on Wednesday 11 March at the Fenner Conference on the Environment, Shine Dome, Gordon St, Canberra. Print this story |
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