CSU Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Ian Goulter, announced today that the University had sent its proposal for a new health and medical precinct in rural Australia in Orange to the Prime Minister's Office.

CSU Chancellor Lawrie Willet, AO, today announced that Professor Ian Goulter would leave the position of Vice-Chancellor and President at the end of 2011.

A senior CSU Indigenous academic says news of the first Indigenous Australian to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship will inspire current Indigenous students at CSU and everywhere to aim high and study hard.

Every emergency crisis presents an opportunity for emergency managers, and the crisis communication response of the Queensland government to Cyclone Yasi will form an excellent case study for students at CSU.

The Dean of the Faculty of Science at CSU, Professor Nick Klomp, called on the Federal Government to accelerate its consideration of CSU's proposal for a new rural medical school in light of findings by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare that health services are becoming less accessible for the majority of people living in rural and regional Australia.

The communities of CSU and Bathurst are saddened by the death of Mr Bob Dengate, a leading teacher educator, education innovator, and local radio presenter.

Charles Sturt University Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Ross Chambers, welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Education Employment and Workplace Relations, The Hon. Chris Evans, MP, that its bid to establish new TAFE-University Centres in Parkes, Wangarratta, Port Macquarie, Griffith and Deniliquin, and expand its Centre for Indigenous Studies in Dubbo, will progress to Stage Two of the Structural Adjustment Funding round.

CSU has congratulated the Liberal-National Coalition Government on its New South Wales election win at the weekend.

A controversial figure in the Australian legal sector will speak on 'Public education and the third great principle of secularism' in the 2011 Bob Meyenn Lecture this week at Charles Sturt University.