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Students in Harmony Day display
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003The centre of Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Albury-Wodonga will be abuzz on Wednesday 21 March when the CSU community celebrates national Harmony Day. Commencing at 12 noon, international students and staff will have stalls, displays and demonstrations highlighting the cultures, unique skills and food that they bring to Australia. Food stalls will ring the main circle near the Gums Café, while a martial arts display by students from South Korea will be staged in the same area. The event is part of Harmony Day celebrations across Australia on 21 March. Members of the Albury-Wodonga and CSU coummunities are welcome to attend the event.
CSU bestows honorary doctorate on Chinese professor
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003
Charles Sturt University (CSU) bestowed an honorary doctorate on a professor of policing from China when he visited CSU in Manly on Tuesday 20 March. Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at CSU, Professor Ross Chambers, said Professor Shiquan Wang, the President of China Criminal Police University (CCPU) in Liaoning Province, was a highly notable and worthy recipient of the CSU honorary Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) because of his contribution to international police education. “Charles Sturt University recognises and wishes to acknowledge that Professor Wang is a leading forensic science teacher and researcher in his field,” Professor Chambers said. “He has made an outstanding contribution to international collaboration in policing and police education, and in particular, to collaboration with this University. Through Professor Wang’s leadership, our two universities have developed a close collaboration that currently sees five CCPU staff based at Charles Sturt University undertaking full-time PhDs. CCPU undergraduate students are able to spend 12 months in Australia so that they complete a CSU Bachelor of Policing as well as their CCPU degree. So far, there have been three intakes of students, and our two universities have collaborated in seminars and conferences, most recently in Indonesia. These developments reflect Professor Wang’s strong personal commitment to international linkages and collaboration, and his vision of the importance of internationalisation in education, and for policing.”
Business studies options for students in Canberra
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003
An agreement between Charles Sturt University (CSU) and the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) to provide study options for business studies students will be marked in a ceremony in Wagga Wagga this week. A new Memorandum of Understanding will be signed by CSU’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Ross Chambers, and CIT Chief Executive Officer, Mr Adrian Marron, on Wednesday 21 March to continue the cooperation between the two education providers. CIT is a TAFE partner of CSU for the Pathway Program into business studies. CIT students complete an Advanced Diploma, and then complete CSU subjects (delivered on CIT’s Reid campus in Canberra) in their final year of study. After three years of study, students graduate with an Advanced Diploma from CIT and a degree in business studies from CSU. Professor Chambers said, “This new agreement will strengthen pathways for students between the Canberra Institute of Technology and Charles Sturt University, as well as the development of further academic cooperation.” Read more here.
Science@CSU in Wagga Wagga
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003
His passion for science will be more evident than usual at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga on Wednesday 21 March when Professor Nick Klomp, Dean of the Faculty of Science and a regular science commentator on ABC Radio in NSW, delivers his Science@CSU Roadshow. Commencing at 4pm, the public presentation will explore developments in science at CSU including new courses, current and future research collaborations, new international staff appointments and multi-million dollar investments in research and training facilities. “The Faculty of Science at Charles Sturt University is among the largest and most diverse science faculties in Australasia, with approximately 9 000 students and hundreds of staff in seven schools across six campuses,” said Professor Klomp. “We are involved in teaching and research in a variety of science and health disciplines including veterinary science, dentistry, nursing, environmental studies, forensic biotechnology, wine science, agriculture, and allied health.” Science@CSU is open to CSU staff and students, industry and the general public. Read more about Science@CSU here.Climate change focus of 2012 Somerville Lecture
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003The annual Somerville Lecture celebrates the contribution of Professor Warren Somerville to the scientific and Bathurst communities, and in 2012 the lecture will be delivered by Charles Sturt University (CSU) scientist Dr Andrew Rawson at the new Flannery Centre in Bathurst on Tuesday 17 April. Dr Rawson is an adjunct associate professor at the CSU School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences who teaches climate change science at CSU in Orange. He is also a senior scientist with the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, and his primary role within the NSW government is to provide scientific support to climate change policy development. Dr Rawson has contributed to the NSW Greenhouse Plan, the NSW Soils Policy, and the NSW Climate Impacts Profile. The topic of Dr Rawson’s lecture is, Climate Change – reconciling modern climate change with the geological record. CSU education lecturer and Somerville Lecture spokesman, Dr Peter Wilson, said, “This is the third Somerville Lecture and it will be a very appropriate inaugural event at the newly-completed Flannery Centre. The subject of climate change is now an abiding topic of public interest and debate, and the Centre will provide a focus for practical environmentally responsible training and skills development.”
CSU hosts second national summit on practice-based education
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003
The Charles Sturt University (CSU) Education For Practice Institute will hold its second national summit on professional and practice-based education in Sydney on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 April. Professor Joy Higgs, AM, the summit convener and Director of the Education For Practice Institute, said, “The summit provides a forum for university educators and researchers to address practice-based education challenges, examine advances in this field, and share good practices and models. The theme for this year is ‘Education for Practice, Work and Society’, and leading academics from Australia, including Professor Andrew Vann, the new Vice-Chancellor and President of Charles Sturt University, are keynote presenters at the summit.” Other presenters include CSU Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Ross Chambers, Professor Joy Higgs (CSU), Dr Franziska Trede (CSU), Professor David Boud (UTS), Professor Stephen Billett (Griffith University), Professor Jan Orrell (Flinders University), Dr Dale Sheehan (Canterbury University, NZ), and Ms Suzi Hewlett from the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Resources and Tertiary Education.
Online and mobile learning forums for CSU academics
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Starting in Bathurst on Thursday 29 March, the Charles Sturt University (CSU) Division of Learning and Teaching Services will hold forums on a number of its campuses for academics to discuss developments in online and mobile learning and teaching at the University. Forums facilitator, Associate Professor Philip Uys, the Director of Strategic Learning and Teaching Innovation in the CSU Division of Learning and Teaching Services, said, “The continued evolution of quality in learning and teaching at Charles Sturt University, and the growing expectations of our students for appropriate technology responses, requires the University’s staff to skilfully use an ever-growing set of internal and external educational technologies. Charles Sturt University is increasing its digital, mobile and paperless learning and teaching, which pose challenges for strategists of these new technologies, and for academics using them. It will be good to share information about education technology developments at the University and have some in-depth conversations about why these changes are occurring. We will explore what the learning and teaching potential of the respective educational technologies is, and what issues we are facing.”
Procession highlights 'learning city'
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003
Charles Sturt University (CSU) will be well represented when the ‘new look’ Town and Gown Procession makes its way through the heart of Wagga Wagga on Thursday 29 March. The colourful annual parade has been expanded to celebrate the city’s role as a centre for education and training in inland Australia. Representatives from local schools, other education providers, and the Australian Defence Force will join with CSU staff in the procession. Starting at 5pm, the procession down Baylis Street will end at the Victory Memorial Gardens with an educational expo from 5.30pm. Read more on CSU News here.
Preaching peace
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003
Co-founder of the non-profit peacemaking educational company, Preaching Peace, Mr Michael Hardin, will visit Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga during his trip to Australia. A theologian and author from the USA, Mr Hardin is a member of the Akron Mennonite Church in Pennsylvania. He brings his message about a peaceful God to CSU when he delivers the next Saint Martin's College Occasional Seminar from 4pm on Monday 2 April in the Fairfax Centre, building 382, CSU in Wagga Wagga. His seminar, titled Nonviolent Atonement, is free and open to the public. As executive director of Preaching Peace, Mr Hardin is also affiliated with the Colloquium on Violence and Religion. Saint Martin’s College is a residential university college run by the Anglican Church. It is located at CSU in Wagga Wagga.
CSU is worth bottling
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003
At Charles Sturt University (CSU), vintage is underway. After a cool, wet summer, the CSU Winery is now gearing up for a sunny and, hopefully, dry finish to the season. “The 2012 Sauvignon Blanc was harvested at Charles Sturt University in Orange this week,” said CSU Winery marketing manager, Mr Justin Byrne. “The grapes were in surprisingly good condition although it was a small crop, approximately 30 per cent down on 2011. Charles Sturt University wines have created a stir in the wine scene recently receiving a Gold Medal at the Sydney International Wine Competition for their 2010 ‘T’ Tempranillo. “We’re very excited about the next vintage, and the attention our wines are getting from wine enthusiasts.”