A CSU student has been awarded the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) Loris Williams Scholarship for his commitment to Indigenous issues in libraries and archives, in particular Indigenous intellectual property.

The lengthy contribution of a Wiradjuri Elder to strengthen Indigenous higher education by empowering students will be recognised with a national award at a ceremony in Melbourne today Wednesday 24 June.

Indigenous students studying business online with CSU recently received academic achievement awards at a residential school in Bathurst.

The personal journey of an Indigenous man as a senior Australian Army chaplain will be the focus of an annual public lecture held in Canberra in memory of Wiradjuri Elder Pastor Cec Grant OAM, or Wungamaa.

The Specialist Integrated Community Engagement program at CSU has won praise from the Griffith Aboriginal Medical Service and from a graduate who now works there.

Cultural understanding and respect were key to providing better mental health support to Aboriginal people and communities, and the employment of highly trained Aboriginal mental health workers should be central to the state's response, said the NSW Mental Health Commissioner, Mr John Feneley, on Friday 5 December.

CSU and Wiradjuri Elders are this week celebrating the success of a new course designed to revitalise the Wiradjuri language, culture and heritage.

Aboriginal girls from Albury, Wagga, and north-east Victoria will spend two days at CSU in Albury-Wodonga in a new program to give the teenagers first-hand experience of higher education.

An Indigenous CSU student said her participation at a recent conference showed her social work is 'politics with soul'.