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You are the lifeblood of the Charles Sturt University community. You lead by example when you live and work sustainably in our community each day. This framework is your opportunity to provide input on sustainability activities at Charles Sturt University and to express your needs and beliefs for the future.
Sustainability skills and knowledge will give you an edge. If you're actively engaged with sustainability agendas, you're more likely to develop the skills, knowledge, and experience to make positive contributions to sustainability throughout your life.
We support you to make the most of your Charles Sturt University education and emerge as an outstanding graduate with real-world sustainability experience.
This framework was benchmarked in 2016. This graph shows our progress toward best practice across the eight activity areas for this framework. The below illustrates our progress towards best practice across the eight (8) activity areas. The green bars reaching four (4) highlight best practice and the lower bars in orange indicate current ratings.
Students are a driving force behind Sustainability at Chales Sturt's on-campus engagement, with Sustainability Advisers playing a leading role.
If you live on campus, you can significantly improve sustainability in student residences as a Student Sustainability Adviser. Coordinate sustainability initiatives and events in your dorm, write an article for your student magazine, or be the student sustainability voice on your SRC or Campus Environment Working Group.
Get involved in initiatives to reduce your carbon footprint at Charles Sturt University by doing the following:
Sustainability at Charles Sturt can provide you with financial support to assist with attending relevant conferences and other sustainability-related professional development opportunities. Contact Sustainability at Charles Sturt at sustainability@csu.edu.au. to find out if you are eligible to receive financial assistance for the conference or skill-building opportunity you're interested in.
Sustainability at Charles Sturt assist student clubs with share bus hire for ball events. The program offers clubs a 50% contribution towards hire costs capped at $200 and a total of two subsidies per year per club.
The promotional requirements of this sponsorship partnership include the following:
Contact Sustainability at Charles Sturt sustainability@csu.edu.au with any questions.
Do you have a sustainability project idea? Need financial support to make it happen? Sustainability grants are a great way to turn your sustainability ideas into reality.
Student sustainability groups are a great way to get involved in sustainability initiatives while studying. In an SSG, you can:
Sustainability groups you can join:
If you're keen to join or create an SSG on campus, contact sustainability@csu.edu.au for more information.
At the start of each year Sustainability at Charles Sturt meet with the incoming SRC to explore ways to better embed sustainability practices in SRC initiatives and form partnerships in which the SRC and Sustainability at Charles Sturt can work together to achieve the University's sustainability goals.
This is achieved through:
To view previous SRC ideas for greater student engagement in sustainability at the University and review progress updates, see the Student Engagement Portfolio
Charles Sturt University are proud members of Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS), a leading inter-institutional body advocating for best practice sustainability within the operations, curriculum and research of the tertiary education sector. Our membership also provides students and staff access to range of member only sustainability resources.
Charles Sturt University aligns our research, policies, procedures, and other work with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These are the most relevant SDGs for this initiative.
