The impact that regional universities have on their communities ...

CQUniversity Australia, will become Australia best regional university and one of Australia's greatest universities by becoming the country's most engaged university. In his Inaugural Lecture Vice-Chancellor & President Professor Scott Bowman will explain how and why this transformation will take place over the next few years.

University-Community Engagement will be defined and the two-way relationship between universities and communities explained.

Regionally-based universities have a massive impact on the communities that they serve - from economic and community development to research conducted locally in national and global contexts. Examples from all over the world of universities and their communities learning together will be presented. The lecture will highlight examples of CQUniversity's engagement in communities and the resulting impact.

Focusing on how CQUniversity will engage- and in turn how communities will become more learning-orientated, Professor Bowman will consider the University's approaches to Learning & Teaching from face-to-face to fully online teaching across the University's domestic and international operations in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria as well Research that involves mutual input and benefit.

Transformation will be achieved when CQUniversity - with community - defines its problems jointly, sets common goals, develops measures of success and leverages university, public and private resources.

The lecture will conclude with a forecast of what will be gained when CQUniversity and its community partners become more meaningfully engaged with each other.