The Dean of the Faculty of Education at CSU, Professor Toni Downes, has welcomed the announcement today, 30 September, by the NSW Minister for Education, Ms Verity Firth, of new partnerships between the University and schools in the State's Western and Riverina regions.

The tsunami that hit Samoa and Tonga and the earthquakes in Sumatra this week are further reminders that natural and man-made disasters are increasing around the world and need to be planned for and managed by governments, emergency services and relief agencies, according to a lecturer at CSU.

CSU has welcomed the announcement by the Federal government of $1.6 million in funding to establish a major Regional Inter-Professional Clinical Simulation Centre at CSU at Bathurst.

One of CSU Winery’s sparkling wines has taken out the trophy for best sparkling in the prestigious 2009 NSW Wine Awards.

CSU will welcome The Hon. Kevin Rudd, MP, Prime Minister of Australia, and senior members of the Federal Cabinet to the Bathurst Campus on Monday 9 November for a Community Cabinet Meeting.

A Professor of Biomedical Science who went on to become the Dean of the Faculty of Health Studies, then foundation Dean of the Faculty of Science and more recently a major player in Charles Sturt University’s move into dentistry will soon leave the University.

Witnessing an elderly woman with terror in her eyes, shouting incoherently as she struggled in a restraint chair in the corridor of an aged care facility while staff ignored her and attended to paperwork for the facility's accreditation has led a CSU nursing academic to question the meaning of the Rudd government's coming apology to 'The Forgotten Australians' who were detained in government welfare institutions in bygone decades.

The CSU School of Nursing and Midwifery at Orange is the first to receive state-of-the-art facilities and equipment at the new Nursing Experiential Learning Centre which opens on Friday 13 November.

The CSU on campus student advertising agency, Kajulu Communications, has won the finals of the International Advertising Association's National 'Big Idea' Advertising competition on Monday 9 November for the fifth time in seven years.