All Central Queenslanders are welcome to log into a live webcast and conversation about the future of our region, featuring new CQUniversity Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman.

This event will be held from 5.45pm on Wednesday September 16 on the University's website at www.cqu.edu.au  or via Professor Bowman's blog at http://www.vc-cquniversity.blogspot.com/.

Professor Bowman will take e-questions following his talk about community partnerships and CQUniversity's growing role throughout all of CQ over the next 5 to 10 years.

"CQUniversity is working to become the most engaged university in Australia. We are going to be in our communities, working jointly with others to define opportunities, setting common goals, developing measures of success and working together to leverage university, public and private resources for the betterment of Central Queensland - from health to education to infrastructure and natural resources," said Professor Bowman.

Vice-Chancellor Scott Bowman."Regional universities have an enormous impact on the communities they serve, worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Central Queensland's university will become Australia best regional university and one of Australia's greatest universities by becoming the country's most engaged university, from economic and community development to research conducted locally in national and global contexts," Professor Bowman added.

"More Central Queenslanders are going to have access to University than ever before and we're going to see thousands and thousands of people who never thought they could go to uni and enrol and study. Why? Because they know university is really for them, not for someone else. And they can go, no matter where they live or what they've done before," explained Professor Bowman.

The presentation will take advantage of CQUniversity's Learning & Teaching information and communications infrastructure which allows for live web-casts and audience participation.