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Charles Sturt University (CSU) is an Australian multi-campus university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in New South Wales
New South Wales

New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
 and the Australian Capital Territory
Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory is the Capital districts and territories of the Australia and its smallest States and territories of Australia....
. It has campuses at Bathurst
Bathurst, New South Wales

Bathurst is a regional centre in the state of New South Wales, Australia approximately 200km west of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council Local Government Areas in Australia....
, Albury-Wodonga
Albury, New South Wales

Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River. It is also a Local Government Areas in Australia, administered by Albury City Council....
, Dubbo
Dubbo, New South Wales

Dubbo is a city in the Central West, New South Wales of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest population centre in the Orana region with a population of 30,574 at the time of the 2006 census, and serves an estimated catchment of 130,000....
, Orange
Orange, New South Wales

Orange is a provincial city in New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the Mitchell Highway, west of Sydney at an altitude of . Orange presently has a population of 31,544 and the city is a major provincial centre....
 and Wagga Wagga. It also has specialist centres in Canberra
Canberra

Canberra is the List of Australian capital cities of Australia. With a population of over 340,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth largest Australian city overall....
, Manly
Manly

Manly is an adjective corresponding to manliness, manhood or masculinity?embodying the essence of being a man.Manly may also refer to:...
 (Sydney), Goulburn
Goulburn, New South Wales

Goulburn is a provincial city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council Local Government Areas in Australia....
 and Broken Hill
Broken Hill, New South Wales

Broken Hill is an isolated mining city and Local Government Areas of Australia in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. The world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton, has roots in the town....
. It is the only state institution delivering higher education in "western NSW" (the part of New South Wales west of the Blue Mountains).

CSU courses are also delivered by various TAFEs
Technical and Further Education

Technical and Further Education or TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational post-secondary education courses in Australia....
 (members of TAFE NSW
TAFE NSW

TAFE NSW is Australia's largest vocational education and training provider. Annually, the network trains over 400,000 people in campus, workplace, online, or distance education methods of education....
 and Holmesglen Institute of TAFE
Holmesglen Institute of TAFE

Holmesglen Institute of Technical And Further Education is a tertiary level training institute situated in the South-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia....
 in Melbourne); and private institution Study Groups Sydney and Melbourne campuses (known as CSU Study Centres).






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Charles Sturt University (CSU) is an Australian multi-campus university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in New South Wales
New South Wales

New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
 and the Australian Capital Territory
Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory is the Capital districts and territories of the Australia and its smallest States and territories of Australia....
. It has campuses at Bathurst
Bathurst, New South Wales

Bathurst is a regional centre in the state of New South Wales, Australia approximately 200km west of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council Local Government Areas in Australia....
, Albury-Wodonga
Albury, New South Wales

Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River. It is also a Local Government Areas in Australia, administered by Albury City Council....
, Dubbo
Dubbo, New South Wales

Dubbo is a city in the Central West, New South Wales of New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest population centre in the Orana region with a population of 30,574 at the time of the 2006 census, and serves an estimated catchment of 130,000....
, Orange
Orange, New South Wales

Orange is a provincial city in New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the Mitchell Highway, west of Sydney at an altitude of . Orange presently has a population of 31,544 and the city is a major provincial centre....
 and Wagga Wagga. It also has specialist centres in Canberra
Canberra

Canberra is the List of Australian capital cities of Australia. With a population of over 340,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth largest Australian city overall....
, Manly
Manly

Manly is an adjective corresponding to manliness, manhood or masculinity?embodying the essence of being a man.Manly may also refer to:...
 (Sydney), Goulburn
Goulburn, New South Wales

Goulburn is a provincial city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council Local Government Areas in Australia....
 and Broken Hill
Broken Hill, New South Wales

Broken Hill is an isolated mining city and Local Government Areas of Australia in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. The world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton, has roots in the town....
. It is the only state institution delivering higher education in "western NSW" (the part of New South Wales west of the Blue Mountains).

CSU courses are also delivered by various TAFEs
Technical and Further Education

Technical and Further Education or TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational post-secondary education courses in Australia....
 (members of TAFE NSW
TAFE NSW

TAFE NSW is Australia's largest vocational education and training provider. Annually, the network trains over 400,000 people in campus, workplace, online, or distance education methods of education....
 and Holmesglen Institute of TAFE
Holmesglen Institute of TAFE

Holmesglen Institute of Technical And Further Education is a tertiary level training institute situated in the South-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia....
 in Melbourne); and private institution Study Groups Sydney and Melbourne campuses (known as CSU Study Centres). CSU also offers teacher training courses at a campus in Ontario
Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
, Canada.

CSU is well known for its extensive range of distance education
Distance education

Distance education, or distance learning, is a field of education that focuses on the pedagogy and andragogy, technology, and instructional systems design that aim to deliver education to students who are not physically "on site"....
 courses.

History


Cd Blake Auditorium
The University was established on 1 July 1989 from the merger of several existing separately-administered Colleges of Advanced Education
College of Advanced Education

The College of Advanced Education was a class of Australian tertiary education institution that existed from 1967 until the early 1990s. They were similar to Australian University of the period, but were States and territories of Australia owned and controlled instead of federally funded and independent....
 including the Mitchell College of Advanced Education in Bathurst, the Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education in Albury-Wodonga and the Riverina College of Advanced Education in Wagga Wagga, through the enactment of The Charles Sturt University Act, 1989 (Act No. 76, 1989). It is named in honour of explorer Charles Sturt
Charles Sturt

Captain Charles Napier Sturt was an England explorer of Australia, part of the European Exploration of Australia. He led several expeditions into the interior of the continent, starting from both Sydney and later from Adelaide....
.

The Mitchell College of Advanced Education had been formed on 1 January 1971, and the Riverina-Murray Institute in Wagga Wagga and Albury-Wodonga had operated since 1985. The latter institution had earlier succeeded the Riverina College of Advanced Education, which was itself the result of an even earlier merger between Wagga Agricultural College and Wagga Teachers College.

In late 2004, CSU formalised moves to assume control of the University of Sydney
University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in Australia. It was established in Sydney in 1850. It is a member of Australia's "Group of Eight " universities that are highly ranked in terms of their research performance....
's Orange
Orange, New South Wales

Orange is a provincial city in New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the Mitchell Highway, west of Sydney at an altitude of . Orange presently has a population of 31,544 and the city is a major provincial centre....
 campus, which came into force on 1 January 2005. From that date, all new Orange campus students were eligible to qualify for degrees from CSU; continuing students continued to be awarded their degrees from Sydney.

On July 10th 2007, fire destroyed a chemistry laboratory at the University's Wagga Wagga campus

Profile


Heffron Building
Charles Sturt University is particularly well known for its degree courses in media
Mass media

Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a mainstream such as the population of a nation state....
 and communications
Communication studies

Communication studies is an academic field that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time....
. It also specialises in the areas of visual and performing arts
Charles Sturt University School of Visual and Performing Arts

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, viticulture
Viticulture

Viticulture is the science, cultivation and study of grapes which deals with the series of events that occur in the vineyard. When the grapes are used for winemaking, it is also known as viniculture....
, agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
, dentistry
Dentistry

Dentistry is the known evaluation, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the mouth, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body....
, veterinary science
Veterinarian

A veterinarian or a veterinary surgeon , often shortened to vet, is a physician for animals and a practitioner of veterinary medicine....
, nursing
Nursing

Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the detail-oriented care of individuals, family, and community in attaining, maintaining, and recovering optimal health and functioning....
, radiography
Radiography

Radiography is the use of X-rays to view unseen or hard-to-image objects. The main diagnostic purposes of X-rays are to see inside one's body, most commonly the bones which can be viewed at an optimum resolution ....
, teaching, theology
Theology

Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
, accountancy
Accountancy

Accountancy or accounting is the system of recording, verifying, and reporting of the value of assets, liabilities, income, and expenses in the books of account to which debit and credit entries are chronologically posted to record changes in value ....
 and library and information management
Library science

Library science is an interdisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to library; the collection, organization, Preservation: Library and Archival Science and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information....
. The University's winery has been, for some thirty years, the producer of acclaimed table wines and, more recently, the University has entered the commercial market with its range of specialist cheeses.

CSU has four Faculties each offering a diverse range of courses and discipline opportunities:

  • The Faculty of Arts
    Charles Sturt University Faculty of Arts

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  • The Faculty of Business
  • The Faculty of Education
  • The Faculty of Science


Initially, CSU was one of a handful of Australian universities not to increase tuition fees by 25%, one of the reforms introduced by federal education minister Brendan Nelson
Brendan Nelson

Brendan John Nelson, Member of Parliament#Australia , is an Australian politician and former List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition. He has served as a member of the Australian House of Representatives since the Australian federal election, 1996 as the Liberal Party of Australia member for Division of Bradfield, a northern Sydney seat....
 in 2004, but it later voted to increase fees by the full 25% allowable starting from 2006.

On its Bathurst campus, CSU operates a radio station, 2MCE
2MCE FM Bathurst

2MCE FM Bathurst is a local community radio station, located on the campus of Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It broadcasts to the communities of Bathurst and Orange, New South Wales and their surrounds....
, which also acts as the originating studio for National Radio News, a popular community radio news service.

CSU Cheese Factory is located at the university's Wagga Wagga campus. Construction was completed in 1998 and cheesemaking commenced in August 1998. CSU cheese "Bidgee Cheese" sales commenced in April 1999 at the Cellar Door at the CSU Winery in Wagga Wagga. Today Bidgee Cheese is sold throughout New South Wales and Victoria.

Students at CSU are represented by Charles Sturt University Student Senate - formerly the CSU Students' Association (CSUSA). The CSU Student Senate is the overarching student body of CSU and comprises the following affiliates:
  • Albury-Wodonga Student Representative Committee - formerly Murray Campus Students’ Association
  • Mitchell Student Guild - formerly Charles Sturt University Students’ Association Bathurst (CSUSAB) – formerly Mitchell Association of Student Councils
  • Dubbo Student Representative Committee
  • Rivcoll Student Representative Committee (Wagga campus)– formerly known as Rivcoll Union Inc
  • Canberra Student Representative Committee – known as St Mark’s Canberra


After Voluntary Student Unionism was passed by the Howard government, the student unions on all campuses of CSU were dissolved and became Student Representative Committees under the university structure.

Gallery


Notable alumni

  • Sarah Armstrong
    Sarah Armstrong

    Sarah Armstrong is an Australian journalist and novelist. She worked for the ABC for eight years on radio programs such as AM, PM and The World Today, and where she won a Walkley Award....
     - Author
  • Samantha Armytage
    Samantha Armytage

    Samantha Armytage is an Australian journalist and television news reporter. She is currently presenter of Seven News , and co-host of Weekend Sunrise, alongside Andrew O'Keefe, replacing Lisa Wilkinson who moved to the Nine Network....
     - Seven Network 4.30 news presenter and Weekend Sunrise co-host
  • Mark Bannerman - ABC Radio National, The 7:30 Report
  • Alicia Barry - Business Today finance journalist
  • Chris Bath
    Chris Bath

    Chris Bath is an Australian journalist and television personality. She is currently the anchor of Sydney's 6:00pm Seven News bulletin on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, and of new Seven current affiars program Sunday Night ....
     - Seven News
    Seven News

    Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, Western Australia....
     journalist and presenter
  • Natarsha Belling
    Natarsha Belling

    Natarsha Belling is a news anchor on Australia television's Channel Ten. She reads the 11am edition of Ten News. She is also Ten's award winning Medical Reporter....
     - Network Ten news presenter
  • Sally Bowrey - television presenter for The Weather Channel
  • Andrew Bracey
    Andrew Bracey

    Andrew Bracey is a British artist, currently based in Manchester.He was born in Bristol, England. He studied fine art at Liverpool John Moores University, and Manchester Metropolitan University....
     - news reporter for Medical Observer
  • Tara Brown
    Tara Brown

    Tara Brown is an Australian television presenter. She was born in 1968 in Sydney, NSW, Australia.On Saturday 25 October 2008, Tara gave birth to a her first son, Jack Cooper....
     - 60 Minutes reporter/presenter
  • Rob Canning
    Rob Canning

    Rob Canning is the popular anchor of Sports Tonight on Australia's Ten Network. He presents the show on Friday and Saturday and when Brad McEwan is away....
     - Network Ten presenter for Sports Tonight
  • Anna Coren
    Anna Coren

    Anna Coren is an Australian journalist who reports and presents for CNN , but until recently was employed by the the Seven Network and host of the East Coast edition of Today Tonight....
     - Seven Network journalist and presenter
  • Brendan Cowell
    Brendan Cowell

    Brendan Cowell is an Australian actor, screenwriter and Film director. Cowell was born in Cronulla, New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales. He was stumbled upon acting by accident while waiting for his sister to come out of a rehearsal, he was then cast in a commercial at age 8....
     - actor, screenwriter and director
  • Andrew Denton
    Andrew Denton

    Andrew Christopher Denton is an Australian comedian and Gold Logie nominated television presenter, and is the host of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation weekly interview program Enough Rope....
     - producer and host of Enough Rope
    Enough Rope

    Enough Rope with Andrew Denton was a television talk show broadcast on ABC1 in Australia. The title of the show came from the phrase "Give someone enough rope and they will hang themselves"....
  • Trevor Dodds
    Trevor Dodds

    Trevor George Dodds is a Namibian golfer.Dodds was born in Windhoek, Namibia. He turned pro in 1985. He won the Canadian Tour Order of Merit in 1995 and 1996....
     - NITV news journalist
  • Melissa Doyle
    Melissa Doyle

    Melissa Jane Doyle is an Australian television personality and co-host of the Seven Network's Sunrise , The Zoo and Where Are They Now ....
     - Seven Network Sunrise presenter
  • Celina Edmonds - News presenter for ABC, Sky News and Network Ten
  • Mike Fitzpatrick (broadcaster)
    Mike Fitzpatrick (broadcaster)

    Mike "Fitzy" Fitzpatrick, is an Australian radio broadcaster with Triple M....
     - Triple M Breakfast Show Host
  • Angelos Frangopoulos
    Sky News

    Sky News is a rolling TV news channel providing 24 hour news coverage including the latest breaking news. Currently broadcasting from a news centre in London, the channel provides domestic and international coverage to audiences in the UK as well as around the globe....
     - Sky News Australia reporter
  • Jane Hutcheon
    ABC News and Current Affairs

    ABC News and Current Affairs is the name of the division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that controls content classified as News, Public affairs programming and Finance....
     - ABC journalist and Foreign Correspondent
  • Amanda Keller
    Amanda Keller

    Amanda Rose Keller is an Australian journalist, radio presenter, and media personality....
     - 2WS
    2WS

    101.7 WSFM is a major FM band radio station broadcasting in Sydney, Australia. Its main content is commercial music, in particular classic hits from the 60's to the Early 2000s, with a greater focus on the 70's and 80's....
     FM radio announcer
  • Andrew Kirk
    Andrew Kirk

    Andrew Kirk is the name of:*Drew Kirk, fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours*Andrew Jackson Kirk , U.S. Representative from Kentucky...
     - radio broadcast journalist
  • Deborah Knight
    Deborah Knight

    Deborah Knight, born Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, is a newsreader for the evening TEN-10 television news in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
     - Network ten newsreader
  • Allison Langdon
    Allison Langdon

    Allison Langdon is a reporter and News presenter for Australia's Nine News, and also an author.....
     - National Nine News reporter
  • David Mackay
    David MacKay

    David MacKay and David Mackay can refer to:*David Mackay , Australian rules football player for Adelaide Crows*David Mackay , British architect...
     - Chief Executive Officer of Kellogg Company
  • Hamish MacDonald
    Hamish MacDonald

    Hamish McDonald is an international broadcast journalist. In 2006, he became the first Australian news anchor of Al Jazeera English, a leading international news network headquartered in Doha, Qatar....
     - International Aljazeera English news journalist
  • Scott McGregor
    Scott McGregor (television presenter)

    Scott McGregor is an Australian actor, television presenter and railway enthusiast....
     - Television presenter, actor
  • Marguerite McKinnon
    Marguerite McKinnon

    Marguerite McKinnon , is a Australian journalist and television reporter for Seven News in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Born at the Mater Hospital in Sydney, McKinnon was the sixth child to Eric and Rosemary McKinnon, she has four brothers and three sisters....
     - Seven Network journalist
  • James McTeigue
    James McTeigue

    James McTeigue is an Australian filmmaker. Born in Tauranga, New Zealand, he grew up in Collaroy Plateau, a suburb on the Northern Beaches of Sydney....
     - Hollywood Director
  • Kate Mitchell - WS-FM weekend newsreader and journalist
  • Matthew Moore
    Matthew Moore

    Matthew Moore was born in Fordstown Crossroads, County Meath, Ireland. He and his brothers Thomas J. Moore, Owen Moore, & Joe emigrated to United States and all went on to Hollywood, California and to successful careers in motion pictures....
     - Sydney Morning Herald journalist
  • Thai Neave - Fox Sports news presenter, Sports Tonight reporter for Network Ten
  • Karen Pang - Play School presenter
  • Kathleen Reen - Regional director, journalist and producer for Asia Projects of Internews
  • Anthony Robertson - Ten News
    Ten News

    Ten News is the news service of Network Ten in Australia. Its one hour flagship local metropolitan bulletin is shown at 5.00pm weeknights, alongside national early, morning, weekend and late editions presented from TEN-10....
     chief of staff and journalist
  • Chris Roe - Sky News
    Sky News

    Sky News is a rolling TV news channel providing 24 hour news coverage including the latest breaking news. Currently broadcasting from a news centre in London, the channel provides domestic and international coverage to audiences in the UK as well as around the globe....
     Australia journalist and presenter
  • Kathryn Robinson
    Kathryn Robinson

    Kathryn Robinson is a journalist with Australia's Ten Network. She is best known as presenting financial news and substitute newsreader. She also occasionally fills as Kim Watkins' substitute on 9am with David and Kim....
     - Sky News
    Sky News

    Sky News is a rolling TV news channel providing 24 hour news coverage including the latest breaking news. Currently broadcasting from a news centre in London, the channel provides domestic and international coverage to audiences in the UK as well as around the globe....
     presenter, Network Ten report and producer
  • Jessica Rowe
    Jessica Rowe

    Jessica Rowe is an Australian television news presenter. Rowe attended Sydney Girls High School in Sydney, and completed a Communications degree at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New South Wales....
     - Seven News
    Seven News

    Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, Western Australia....
     presenter
  • Simon Santow - ABC News media reporter
  • Wayne Sievers
    Wayne Sievers

    Wayne Thomas Padraig Sievers is a former Australian police, trade union official, social justice campaigner and political candidate. He exposed the failure of the Government of Australia, despite being forewarned, to prevent widespread Military of Indonesia-backed militia violence in the former Portuguese colony of East Timor during the terr...
     - former Australian police officer, trade union official, social justice campaigner and political figure
  • Hon. Justice Carolyn Chalmers Simpson
    Carolyn Simpson (judge)

    Carolyn Chalmers Simpson is a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.Simpson made legal history in 1999 as one of three women judges who formed the first all-female Bench to sit in an Australian court....
     - Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
    Supreme Court of New South Wales

    The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian States and territories of Australia of New South Wales . It has unlimited jurisdiction within the state in civil law matters, and hears the most serious criminal law matters....
  • Edna Tse - ATV News Hong Kong journalist and newsreader
  • Jacinta Tynan
    Jacinta Tynan

    Jacinta Tynan has been a news presenter / journalist for more than 12 years, most of those with ABC Television , where she reported and presented for the National News and the...
     - Sky News Australia presenter
  • Kevin Wilde - Ten News
    Ten News

    Ten News is the news service of Network Ten in Australia. Its one hour flagship local metropolitan bulletin is shown at 5.00pm weeknights, alongside national early, morning, weekend and late editions presented from TEN-10....
     journalist
  • Charlotte Wood
    Charlotte Wood

    Charlotte Wood is an Australian novelist.Wood was born in Cooma, New South Wales. She has a background in journalism and has also taught writing at a variety of levels....
     - novelist
  • Monique Wright
    Monique Wright

    Monique Wright is an Australian journalist and television personality. She received national exposure as the weather presenter on the Seven Network's national breakfast program, Sunrise during 2007, being promoted from feature reporter to replace former weather presenter Grant Denyer....
     - Seven's Sunrise weather presenter
  • Jack Yabsley - Saturday Disney presenter, Totally Wild presenter
  • Jessica Yates - Fox Sports News presenter


Charles Sturt University Centres



External links

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