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.

More than 50 people attended the first Parkes Higher Education Forum in the Coventry Room at Parkes on Thursday 16 December including Mayor Cr Ken Keith, independent local MP Dawn Fardell, representatives from the local high school, business and industry.

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.

Award winning computer software applications are being distributed throughout Asia by developer Mr Daniel Chun, a Charles Sturt University (CSU) graduate with a passion for Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

Graduation time and celebrations are growing on the Border, with CSU this year holding four graduation ceremonies in Albury from Thursday morning, 28 April.