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Charles Sturt University
Charles Sturt University crest
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://www.csu.edu.au/

Charles Sturt University (CSU) is an Australian multi-campus university in New South Wales. 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 main university servicing the west and southwest of New South Wales, and also serves north eastern Victoria.

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 Brisbane campuses (known as CSU Study Centres).

CSU is 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.

Contents 1 History 2 Profile 3 Notable alumni 4 Charles Sturt University Website 5 Charles Sturt University Faculties 6 References

The University was established on 19 July 1989 from the merger of several existing separately-administered Colleges of Advanced Education including the Mitchell College of Advanced Education in Bathurst and the Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education 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 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.

Charles Sturt University is particularly well known for its degree courses in media and communications, the visual and performing arts, viticulture, agriculture, nursing, radiography, teaching, theology 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.

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 Students' Association. CSUSA is the overarching students’ association of CSU and is comprised of the following affiliates:

• Charles Sturt University Students’ Association Albury Wodonga (CSUSAA) – formerly Murray Campus Students’ Association
• Charles Sturt University Students’ Association Bathurst (CSUSAB) – formerly Mitchell Association of Student Councils
• Charles Sturt University Students’ Association Dubbo (CSUSAD)
• Charles Sturt University Students’ Association Wagga Wagga (CSUSAW) – known as Rivcoll Union Inc
• Charles Sturt University Students’ Association Canberra – known as St Mark’s Canberra^[1]

• 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)
• Jane Hutcheon (ABC journalist and Foreign Correspondent)
• Amanda Keller (2WS FM radio announcer)
• Deborah Knight (Network ten newsreader)
• Allison Langdon(National Nine News reporter)
• 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
• Edna Tse (ATV News Hong Kong journalist and newsreader)
• Charlotte Wood (novelist)
• Monique Wright (Seven's Sunrise weather presenter)

• Charles Sturt University - official university web site

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

1. ^ http://www.stmarksntc.org.au/