Charles Sturt University
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Charles Sturt University (CSU) is an Australian multi-campus university in rural New South Wales. It has campuses at Bathurst, Albury-Wodonga, Dubbo, Orange and Wagga Wagga. It also has sites in Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Goulburn and Broken Hill. It is the main university servicing the west and southwest of New South Wales, and also serves north eastern Victoria.
CSU is also well known for its extensive range of distance education courses, being a leader in the field and claims to be one of Australia's largest providers of distance education.
It was established on the 19 July 1989 from the merger of several existing separately-administered Colleges of Advanced Education including the Mitchell College of Advanced Education (MCAE) in Bathurst and the Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education (RMIHE) in Albury-Wodonga and 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 MCAE had been formed on 1 January 1971, and the RMIHE in Wagga Wagga and Albury-Wodonga had operated since 1985. The latter institution had earlier succeeded the Riverina College of Advanced Education (RCAE), 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. 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.
Charles Sturt University is particularly well known for its degree courses in media and communications, the creative arts, viticulture, agriculture, nursing, radiography, teaching and accountancy. 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.
Initially CSU was one of a handful of Australian Universities not to increase tutition fees by 25%, one of the reforms introduced by federal education minster Brendan Nelson in 2004, but it has since 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.
Students at CSU are represented by the Charles Sturt University Student Association. Students at the Wagga Wagga Campus are represented by Rivcoll Union which derives its name from this campus' earlier name - the Riverina College of Advanced Education (RCAE).
Notable alumni
- Chris Bath (Seven Network journalist and presenter)
- Anna Coren (Seven Network journalist and presenter)
- Brendan Cowell (actor)
- Andrew Denton (producer and host of Enough Rope)
- Melissa Doyle (Sunrise presenter on Channel 7)
- Amanda Kellar (WSFM radio announcer)
- Gabby Millgate (actor)
- Jessica Rowe (Today show presenter, formerly of Ten's 5pm Sydney news)
- Wayne Sievers former Australian police officer, trade union official, social justice campaigner and political figure
- Charlotte Wood (novelist)
External links
- [Charles Sturt University] - official university web site
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