CSU in Albury Wodonga will celebrate the achievements of nearly 700 students in four graduation ceremonies this week.

Continuing to achieve strong graduate outcomes and furthering research innovation are among the aims for newly appointed Charles Sturt University faculty Deans, Professor Lyn Gorman and Professor Mark Burton.

Six Charles Sturt University students have been named as finalists in the international Ericsson Kacip @ Cut-Edge Award 2003 Competition in Malaysia.

The international impacts of the United States debt crisis are likely to be serious given the size of the US economy and its accumulated debt level. Other countries, including Australia, would need to expand their economies in an effort to offset the consequences of the US economy's decline, according to CSU economics experts.

CSU today announced that it has asked the Federal Government for more than $2 million in funding to establish a major Regional Inter-Professional Clinical Simulation Centre for CSU at Bathurst. The application was made under the Capital Development Pool Program administered by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

CSU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Goulter, today welcomed the release of the Report of the Bradley Review of the Australian Higher Education System. The Report follows the announcement last week that Charles Sturt University and Southern Cross University had been invited by the Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon. Julia Gillard, MP, to request funding for a feasibility study for their proposal to integrate with one other inter-state university.

Despite optimistic expectations for significant action, the Rudd government announcement on Monday 15 December of its long-awaited climate change targets, including a five per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2020, has been met with scepticism and disappointment.

The Vice-Chancellor of CSU, Professor Ian Goulter, today called for some serious thinking in the university sector following the release of the Bradley Review and CSU's joint proposal with Southern Cross University (SCU) to conduct a feasibility study into the establishment of a new national university based in regional Australia.

A building for university academics and students aiming to become the first public building in inland Australia to be rated as six green stars will be officially opened in Albury at Charles Sturt University by Her Excellency the Honorable Ms Quentin Bryce, AC, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, on Tuesday 21 October.