Charles Sturt University
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| Motto: | For the public good |
| Established: | 1989 |
| Type: | Public |
| Chancellor: | Lawrie Willet |
| Vice-Chancellor: | Professor Ian Goulter |
| Students: | 36,000 |
| Undergraduates: | 24,213 |
| Postgraduates: | 9,038 |
| Location: | Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange, Manly and Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia |
| Campus: | Urban and rural |
| Website: | http://csu.edu.au/ |
Charles Sturt University (CSU) is an Australian multi-campus university in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It has campuses at Bathurst, Albury-Wodonga, Dubbo, Orange and Wagga Wagga. It also has specialist centres in Canberra, Manly (Sydney), Goulburn and Broken Hill. 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 (members of TAFE NSW and Holmesglen Institute of TAFE in Melbourne); and private institution Study Group's Sydney and Melbourne campuses (known as CSU Study Centres). CSU also offers teacher training courses at a campus in Ontario, Canada.
CSU is well known for its extensive range of distance education courses.
History
The University was established on 1 July 1989 from the merger of several existing separately-administered Colleges of Advanced Education 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.
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's Orange 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
Charles Sturt University is particularly well known for its degree courses in media and communications.[citation needed] It also specialises in the areas of visual and performing arts, viticulture, agriculture, dentistry, veterinary science, nursing, radiography, teaching, theology, accountancy and library and information management. 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
- 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 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, 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.
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