Community Engagement - Best Practice

Best Practice

Community and Business engagement sheet [PDF 294KB]

Message to our students, staff and local community

We’re uniquely placed to engage with our local community and the wider public to develop sustainable initiatives. We will engage at the regional, national and international levels through our established connections and networks, as well as our curriculum.

Through community engagement, we’ll find out how we can play a key role in promoting and sustaining mutually beneficial relationships with local and broader communities. This might be to open up physical spaces for the public to share knowledge and expertise or to support staff and student volunteers in local projects.

The Goodlife Community Co-operative is a great example of community engagement in action. It’s organised by residents who work with others to support people, animals and the earth. Visit Goodlife Community Co-operative’s Facebook page to find out more.

CEC poster

Champions

Champion	Position	Campus
Fiona Nash	Strategic Adviser, Regional Development	Canberra
Laura Dan	Director, Knowledge Exchange and Engagement	Canberra
Vacant	Director, Government and community relations, Office of Vice Chancellor	Bathurst
Wes Ward	Media Officer, Division of Marketing and Communication	Albury-Wodonga
John Rafferty	Sustainability Community Co-operative, Lecturer School of Environmental Sciences	Albury-Wodonga
Deirdre Keogh	Associate Head of School, School of Accounting and Finance	Bathurst
Simon Wright	Lecturer, School of Marketing and Management	Bathurst
Heather Robinson	Head of Campus	Orange
Clara Koch	Division of Student Services	Port Macquarie
Taryn Hodge	Community Relations Officer	Wagga and Albury Wodonga
Cortney Haynes	Community Relations Officer	Port Macquarie
Laura Mcintyre	Community Relations Officer	Dubbo

Progress toward best practice

This framework was benchmarked with Business and Industry Interface on 7 September 2016 and reviewed in October 2018.

This graph shows our progress toward best practice across the eight activity areas for this framework.

The below graph illustrates our progress towards best practice across the eight (8) activity areas. The orange bars reaching four (4) highlight best practice and the lower bars in blue indicate CSU’s current baseline ratings.

Participants a the 2015 Biodiversity dreaming conference

Opening of the mountain bike track CSU Albury-Wodonga in October 2018. (L-R - Jennifer Munday - Albury Wodonga Head of Campus with students Hannah Gubb and Chloe Grey and Jacqueline Clements, Executive Director, Division of Student Services)