Charles Sturt University (CSU) will be the first university invited to feature its work at NSW Parliament House when 'CSU Week' starts on Monday 31 March.

 

The Vice-Chancellor and President of CSU, Professor Ian Goulter, said that parliamentarians, departmental staff and invited guests will have the opportunity to learn first-hand how CSU contributes to the development of inland communities and the nation, and to the resolution of global problems.

 

“CSU is the national university of inland Australia. Being a university defines our mission, inland describes our geography,” Professor Goulter said.

 

“This is where we live and work, in the historic heart of the nation’s economic prosperity and character, and CSU is the inheritor and custodian of a tradition of great innovation and invention arising from inland Australia.

 

“Since the time of settlement, our inland communities have provided the energy, the food and a significant proportion of the nation’s gross domestic product and international exports.

 

“CSU is firm in its belief that the people of inland NSW have a right to access higher education and research of a national standard in their own ‘backyard’, and we welcome the opportunity to emphasise CSU’s role to our elected representatives.”

 

The Premier of NSW, the Hon. Morris Iemma, MLA, will officially launch CSU Week at a cocktail party in the Strangers Lounge at Parliament House on Monday evening.

 

The week will feature a display about CSU, luncheons, special guest lectures by CSU’s the Reverend Professor James Haire (Theology) and Professor Shahbaz Khan (Water), the launch of the CSU Centre for Indigenous Studies, and a cocktail party for CSU alumni and guests on Thursday evening.

 

The work of photographic students and staff from the University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts will also feature in a special display that tells the story of CSU and its role in the lives of our inland communities.