Representatives from inland communities where Charles Sturt University (CSU) has its principal NSW campuses gathered in Bathurst on Thursday 30 August for the University's annual combined Regional Consultative Committees meeting to provide feedback and guidance to the University on a range of issues.
The meeting was chaired by Professor David Green, Head of CSU’s Wagga Wagga Campus, and it explored how CSU can best engage with its communities.
Professor Green said it was important to firstly understand the meaning of engagement and how it helps to shape our society.
“Universities play an important and central role as a vast resource to support the creation of more equitable and participative societies.
“In our particular historic moment, social institutions such as universities need to reconsider the nature of their contract with the communities they serve and the ways they do this.
“Central to our efforts is the notion of ‘mutuality’, by which academics harness their expertise to meet public needs which in turn leads to social transformation.
“A good starting point is recognising that there is not one unified community but rather a number of distinct communities – for example, in business, in the arts, on the land – with whom we must engage.
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