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Archive: July 2016

Fiona O'Connor at Angkor Wat in Cambodia during a CSU Global tour

Recent history poses challenges for Cambodian businesses

Fiona O’Connor, a final-year student in the Bachelor of Business Studies, studies her CSU degree through Northern Sydney Institute, at Crows Nest in northern Sydney. Fiona was part of a group of undergraduate and postgraduate students who travelled...

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CSU becomes Australia’s first Carbon Neutral University

You might have seen the electric carts around CSU’s Bathurst and Wagga Wagga campuses, joined in at a tree-planting day or recycled your empty water bottles on campus. All these are things you can do to help protect the environment, and your efforts...

Online Study SRC nominee hopes to build support

Online Study SRC nominee hopes to build support

The first Online Study Student Representative Committee (OS SRC) is launching at CSU. We caught up with Alison Petrou about what’s motivating her to nominate for the first OS SRC. Hi Alison, what’s motivating you to nominate for the OS...

Students give back through oral health trip

Students give back through oral health trip

Working in hot, humid conditions to treat patients in make-shift clinics in regional communities in Cambodia is how a group of CSU dentistry and oral health students spent their holidays. During the two-week program the team treated 537 patients...

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Dating in the modern age

As much as anything else, dating is a huge part of the uni experience. Whether you’re the kind of person who likes one night stands, summer flings, or long-term relationships, creating and cultivating romantic interactions with other people at uni...

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Starting your first veggie garden

Veggie gardens can seem like a largely adult concept, reserved for people who own their own homes and buy organic milk at the supermarket, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Growing your own produce may seem difficult, but it’s a great way to save...

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Movies to beat a bad mood

The Princess Bride Giants, swordfights, pirates, true love. What else could you possibly need to cure a bad mood? The Princess Bride is a cult classic that almost everyone has watched at least once, and if not you’ve at least heard of it. It’s a...

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Plot your future with the GPS

A new system launched this session will make it easier to plot out your path to finishing your degree. The Graduate Planning System (GPS) will replace the old My Degree Planner in time for Session 2. The GPS offers: a more reliable way to plan your...

Hannah Morriss on campus at CSU in Wagga Wagga

The inside scoop on the SRC

Nominations are now open for new members of Student Representative Committees (SRCs) on CSU campuses in Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange, Port Macquarie and Wagga Wagga, as well as the new Online Study SRC. We caught up with the Wagga Wagga...

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Living with the person you love

One of the key parts of the university experience is navigating the minefield of sharehousing, from dorms to ramshackle houses to your parents’ basement to, if you’re lucky, finding the ultimate form of domestic bliss, usually with the person you...

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