The university announced this week that it would be dismantling its Faculty of Education with the schools within that faculty to be absorbed into three expanded faculties.

Professor Vann told the Western Advocate that, at this stage, it was planned those three faculties would be an unchanged Faculty of Science along with a new Faculty of Arts and Business and a Faculty of Human Services.

It is expected that the changes would be largely administrative and CSU has announced that a total of 14 jobs would be lost across all its campuses.

Professor Vann conceded the changes would save CSU around $1 million but he said cost-cutting was not the focus of the change.

"These changes are to make sure we are structured in the best way to strive and compete in a competitive education environment," he said.

"Charles Sturt University has enjoyed consistent growth for 25 years and we now need to restructure the administrative side to ensure we have consistency across all our campuses."

Under the proposed changes, the new Charles Sturt University faculties would be:

l Faculty of Science: Encompassing the schools of Agriculture and Wine Sciences; Animal and Veterinary Sciences; Biomedical Sciences; Community Health; Dentistry and Health Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health; and Human Movement Studies.

l Faculty of Arts and Business: Encompassing the schools of Communication and Creative Industries; Humanities and Social Sciences; Information Studies; Accounting and Finance; Management and Marketing; Computing and Mathematics; and School of Indigenous Australian Studies.

l Faculty of Human Services: Encompassing the schools of Policing Studies; Psychology; Education (Wagga Wagga, Port Macquarie and Albury-Wodonga); Teacher Education (Bathurst and Dubbo); Theology; and Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation; and Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security (Canberra,  Manly and Bathurst); and Centre for Customs and Excise Studies (Canberra); and School of Social Work (Wagga and Bathurst).

But despite losing a faculty of its own, Professor Vann said teacher education remained a focus for CSU.

"Our teaching schools are critically important because our figures show that about half the teachers in our regions are CSU graduates," he said.

"We remain critical to the workforce supply for a lot of local schools."

Professor Vann said consultation on the proposed changes would be open for five weeks, giving staff the chance to ask questions and provide feedback on the new model.

Information and consultation sessions are being held for staff throughout August across all campuses.