The funding of a CSU tender for national research into the implementation of an integrated child care services model confirms the University as a leader in early childhood policy and practice.

The legal complexities of contemporary professional sports have prompted CSU to develop new courses in response to the needs of the sports industry.

CSU has improved ratings in graduates getting a job and positive graduate outcomes in the 2010 edition of The Good Universities Guide.

Two CSU staff and a team have received citations in 2009 from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council for excellence in learning and teaching at the University.

The smell of smoke and the feel of ash, heat and water may be absent but virtual fire scenes have been given the thumbs up in improving the fire investigation skills of CSU students.

At a time when police forces around Australia are increasing their media and communications budgets, and demand has never been greater for reality-style television productions focusing on policing, there is evidence of a growing trend for police public relations work within policing agencies.

In a first for CSU, a husband and wife have received individual awards for their separate outstanding work in the same Faculty and School at the University.

Reflecting on her long career in higher education at CSU on the eve of her retirement, Associate Professor Leonora Ritter, the Head of the School of Social Sciences and Liberal Studies, says her career has encompassed many changes, but her training as a historian has helped her to put those changes into perspective.

A highly accomplished wine industry identity and researcher, Professor Jim Hardie, has been appointed as the Director of the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre at CSU at Wagga Wagga.