CHARLES Sturt University will mark the 30th anniversary of its founding with a celebration on its Bathurst campus this Wednesday.
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It will follow a challenging start to the year for the university, which received widespread criticism when it announced that it was considering a name change as part of its anniversary celebrations.
A petition calling for the name change to be abandoned received thousands of signatures before the idea was dropped.
The university did, however, unveil a new logo that replaced the stylised Sturt's desert pea flower with a shield design with three sections of lines.
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CSU staff, students and alumni will gather at the Elders Space on Wednesday for the Charles Sturt Excellence Awards from 11.30am and then at the Food Bowl from noon for a 30th birthday party that includes a cake-cutting and music.
A commemorative tree-planting will follow.
"In 1989, the Mitchell College of Advanced Education and the Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education merged to establish Charles Sturt University with campuses in Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst and Wagga Wagga," Charles Sturt vice-chancellor Professor Andrew Vann said.
"We then established campuses in Canberra, Orange, Dubbo and, more recently, Port Macquarie, and we've achieved so much in 30 years.
"Charles Sturt offers higher education in fields critical to the ongoing success and development of our regions, and the nation, such as teaching, policing, nursing, allied health, business, communication, accounting, computing and mathematics.
"We've launched engineering, law, physiotherapy, dentistry and, soon, the Joint Program in Medicine."
