Charles Sturt University has moved to end concern within the ranks of the NSW Farmers’ Association about the University’s commitment to quality agricultural education for regional and rural Australia following the announcement that CSU is to strategically re-position its agricultural programs at the Wagga Wagga and Orange Campuses.

Four Charles Sturt University third year journalism students have been awarded prestigious scholarships by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) in a precedent dubbed ‘a huge honour’ by Mr Chris McGillion, senior lecturer in journalism at the School of Communication.

Charles Sturt University computer science student James Bekkema from Bathurst, NSW, has been awarded two Apple University Consortium Innovation Grants in competition with computing students from universities around Australia.

Charles Sturt University will be part of the consortium that will help ‘internationalise’ Australian higher education. The Minister for Education, Science and Training, Julie Bishop announced the 14 Universities that will make up the consortium yesterday.

Listening to Associate Professor Tom Watson talk about his time as Head of the School of Communication at Charles Sturt University’s Bathurst Campus, the analogies with his favourite pastime – flying – prove too hard to resist.

The Council, staff and students of Charles Sturt University are saddened by the death of Mr Peter Andren, the Independent member for the former Federal electorate of Calare which included CSU's Bathurst and Orange Campuses.

The Federal Shadow Minister for Education and Training, Mr Stephen Smith, MP, will visit Charles Sturt University's (CSU) Bathurst Campus on Tuesday 13 November for talks with University executives, staff and students. He will be accompanied by Mr Bob Debus, Labor candidate for the new Federal electorate of Macquarie.

Promises from major parties in the upcoming Federal election for tertiary education will not address the growing skills shortage in regional Australia, says the author of the recently released report, Youth Allowance and Regional Young People: Access to Tertiary Education, published jointly by Charles Sturt University and Monash University.

Charles Sturt University's National Radio News service will present its first-ever national coverage of a federal election on Saturday 24 November 2007.