CSU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Goulter has announced the appointment of Professor Carmen Moran as Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and as Professor of Psychology at CSU.

A strong advocate for Australian women, particularly those living and working in rural and remote areas, will take her voice for women’s rights and issues to the international stage in 2008.

As one of the worst droughts in a hundred years continues its grip on Australia, inland communities large and small face the prospect of another very hot, dry summer. The national university of inland Australia, Charles Sturt University has specialist researchers available for comment on drought issues such as its effects on agricultural production and water use, access to services and impacts on families, regional businesses and communities.

Charles Sturt University in Australia will renew one of its most signficant and long-standing international relationships with the signing of a new cooperation agreement with HELP University College in Malaysia.

A burning desire to build a sustainable Indigenous workforce of mental health specialists has led to top honours being bestowed on Charles Sturt University’s Wayne Rigby during Mental Health Week.

With the availability of many health services decreasing across inland Australia, a team of Charles Sturt University researchers are investigating how the latest telecommunications technology can be used to bring expert health services into isolated homes and communities.

Fifteen years ago social researcher Hugh Mackay wrote the bestseller Reinventing Australia, which analysed, with forensic skill, what was happening within Australian society. In this year’s Nowik public lecture hosted by Charles Sturt University, Mackay takes another hard look at Australians to see how far we have come.

Professor Anthony Cahalan, the current Dean of the Faculty of Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada's largest university of art and design, has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Charles Sturt University (CSU).

The Vice-Chancellor of Charles Sturt University, Professor Ian Goulter, told Federal parliamentarians in Canberra yesterday that health, agriculture, equitable access and professional education are the University's priorities to support growth in Australia's inland communities.