"Being able to chat to the course coordinator and hear about his experience and what he has done in the field had a huge influence in my choosing Charles Sturt University (CSU)," says CSU first year Communication student Mitchell Shaddock. CSU will again showcase courses in advertising, commercial radio, journalism, public relations and theatre media at the second-ever iDay at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney on Saturday 26 August.

"My advice was to give two votes per farm, initiate time-limited leadership positions, and introduce gender awareness training for industry bodies. The most radical recommendation I gave was bodies that do not represent gender equity should not be given government funding. Now that is the one that will really shake them up." Professor Margaret Alston, Director of Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Centre for Rural Social Research is talking about her recommendations to the Federal Government’s Inquiry into Women’s Representation on Rural and Regional Bodies of Influence.

In a move that will see all CSU students benefit, Charles Sturt University (CSU) will take over all essential Student Association services with the introduction of Voluntary Student Unionism occurring in July this year.

Australia’s most influential players in childcare will debate Childcare - whose responsibility? in Sydney on Wednesday 9 August. The event will explore ways of improving access to quality childcare, and features a panel of some of Australia's leading childcare providers, experts and commentators, including Fran Press, Charles Sturt University (CSU) senior childhood education lecturer.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic Professor Lyn Gorman is among a select group of international scholars invited to address the annual Oxford Round Table in the United Kingdom in August.

Inadequate school counselling services, and the need for formal training to guide students, compounds the controversial school chaplaincy program in Australia's public schools, says Dean of CSU's Faculty of Education, Professor Toni Downes.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Goulter today welcomed the announcement of $5.4 million in funding for the Faculty of Education to lead a national research network in early childhood education with Queensland University of Technology and Monash University.

ABC's Four Corners program on Monday 30 May showed Australian cattle being subjected to inhumane treatment in Indonesian abattoirs and has prompted calls for an immediate ban on live exports to Indonesia. Experts from Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences are well placed to comment on the welfare of animals, meat produce market and the live export industry.

The future of Charles Sturt University was further secured recently when the CSU Council re-appointed Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Goulter, Chancellor Lawrie Willett AO and Deputy Chancellor Ian Macintosh AM. It is this team that recently unveiled CSU’s new five-year corporate strategy that Professor Goulter says will "focus on what we do well; deliver distinctive and quality educational programs for the professions, concentrate on our research on agricultural and regional sustainability, and lead the nation in distance education".