Recognition and Funding
The college was also awarded federal Gear Up, Upward Bound and Educational Talent Search grants, ensuring pre-college age students in CWC’s service area have more opportunities to enter into higher education.
Today, the college offers a wide variety of programs and services to students, businesses and community members of all ages. The college has credentials and associate degrees in career-technical (applied) programs specifically for students looking to immediately enter the job market and numerous academic transfer programs for students planning to continue on for bachelor and advanced degrees.
Additionally, the college offers a wide assortment of non-credit professional and personal development courses for all ages. The Workforce and Community Education department at CWC provides the training and services businesses in CWC’s service area need, as well as employment training to assist constituents of the of area to become more self-sufficient. The college also provides a variety of community services classes throughout the service area.
CWC formed a Board of Cooperative Higher Educational Services that provides prepared high school students to earn college credit through a dual and concurrent enrollment program. The college has also been awarded millions of dollars in federal grants to assist pre-college age and college students succeed in higher education.
The college has developed a number of new academic programs, including Western American Studies, Outdoor Education, Fire Science, International Studies, Environment, Health and Safety, which capitalize on the college’s historic and geographic location.
In recent years, the college has had rapid enrollment growth. In the past three years, the college has witnessed a 40 percent increase in the number of students.
The college’s main campus is made up of modern buildings and facilities, which include a library and Food Court constructed in 1994 and a new student residence hall completed in 2002 and the Intertribal Education and Community Center, which opened in the fall of 2010. Most of the campus was remodeled during the 1994 construction project and every nook and cranny was wired to establish a robust computer network. The college also owns a Main Street center in Lander where courses taught on campus are delivered to a new electronic classroom there.
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