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.

A CSU academic warns that a plan to establish a panel of experts to advise the Federal Government on what form constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians should take is unlikely to yield a result that is either substantive or useful.

Two leading academics will deliver keynote addresses at the annual CSU conference for its academics, CSUEd 2010, at the University in Bathurst on Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 November.

Australia is seeing the highest number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policing students commence the Associate Degree in Policing Practice, with the increase in numbers attributed to the cohesive relationship between Charles Sturt University (CSU) , TAFE NSW, and the NSW Police Force, and their current program to attract students.

The recent bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon have not dampened the enthusiasm of a CSU runner who has been selected to join the Indigenous Marathon Project.

CSU will examine ways to provide rural and regional Australians with better access to medical services when it hosts rural health experts, rural doctors, government representatives and local government at a policy forum in Canberra on Friday 24 May.

Charles Sturt University will this month sign an innovative Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost educational opportunities and participation levels amongst Aboriginal Australians, improve health outcomes as well as spearhead important research.

The Professor of Public Ethics at CSU has backed the call by the 2009 Australian of the Year, Professor Mick Dodson, for a national debate over the meaning of and date for Australia Day.

Australian universities should play a central role in promoting reconciliation and social justice through education to meet the needs of Indigenous Australians, according to a CSU academic.