Meet Elizabeth

Hello

I’m a sophomore here at CWC and I’m hoping to get accepted to the nursing program. I can’t wait to be a nurse! This year has been really great because I’ve just been doing prerequisites for the nursing program. I finished Anatomy and Physiology last semester and this semester I’m taking Microbiology and a Certified Nursing Assistant class which means I had to find a few electives to put me up to a full credit load. I was originally a Music major before I decided to be a nurse so I took some music classes, a western social dancing class, which is a blast, and a work out class. This last one I took because my voice teacher was saying that it’s good for your voice when your body is active.

Thinking about working out always makes me want to laugh because I’ve never taken any sort of work out class. I haven’t done any kind of physical activity on purpose since fifth grade because I figured I was getting enough exercise living on a farm. Boy was I wrong! I’m actually a wimpy kid. I felt like I was going to die for the first two weeks of class even though most of what we were doing was simple repetition stuff like going up and down a single step. I’m glad we stuck to the simple machinery for the first little while. The first time I walked into the CWC weight room my thought was, “what if I get into one of those machines wrong?” It would be like a comedian I heard once. Someone would walk up and see me pumping my arms and legs and say, “Um… that’s the scaffold.” But that didn’t happen, probably because there isn’t a scaffold up there, which I’m extremely glad for and the class has gone really well! I only twisted my ankle once on one of those steps, but that turned out better than it could have because if I had fallen forward instead of backward I could have started a whole human domino’s of people falling off their steps. That would have been funny but awkward. My instructor probably wonders why I’m always in the back smiling. It’s because I’m thinking of all the things that could go wrong that haven’t yet!

So I guess college is all about the new fun experiences you get to be involved in! And working out is definitely a new one for me but it’s totally worth it. This wimpy girl is going to be… well probably still wimpy but healthy! So whether you’re in college or headed that way start something new, and go into it pretending that you’re going to be great at it because you probably will be, or you’ll have fun trying!

Elizabeth Peil
Nursing Major
Quality Leader

The second EVP Candidate will be on campus Wednesday, March 31

JASON WOOD – Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Mr. Jason S. Wood holds a Masters of Education degree from the University of Idaho with emphasis in curriculum and instruction as well as a Bachelors of Art degree from Brigham Young University with a major in Spanish and minor in History. Mr. Wood anticipates completion of a doctoral degree from Oregon State University later this year. The focus of the Doctorate of Philosophy degree is Community College Leadership – Rural Community College Issues.

Mr. Wood currently serves as the Dean for Student Services at Klamath Community College in Klamath Falls, Oregon. His prior experience includes Dean at Southwestern Oregon Community College, Senior Director of College Prep and Recruitment Coordinator at Blue Mountain Community College, as well as a host of other professional positions in Idaho and Utah.

Want to go bowling?

Disco Night Glow Bowling Saturday, March 27 8-11 pm at the Silver Spur Lanes in Lander, Wyoming.

Free for CWC students.  Transportation from the Student Center Parking Lot.

Free food, fun and prizes

Dress to impress!!

Meet Jessie

My name is Jessie and I am an Elementary Education major at Central Wyoming College. I choose CWC because it’s close to home, a friendly and comfortable size, and affordable. While attending CWC, you meet new people and make new friends just by going to class. One of my favorite aspects about my experience here is the one-on-one time you have with the teachers and faculty. If I ever need help I can always find it. If I’m confused about registering for classes, I know that there will be somebody who will take the time to help me. The staff members care about your success and help you along the way. It is also very fun to be involved at CWC. There is always something going on. I’ve had my fair share of food and fun just by walking into the student center when there is something going on. I’m glad I choose to go to CWC to earn by Associates degree. It was a good choice for me.

 

Jessie Olson
Elementary Education Major
Quality Leader

Have you heard of e-CHUG?

e-CHUG is an electronic assessment of your personal drinking profile that is totally confidential. In about 30 minutes, e-CHUG can help you to assess your levels of intoxication and personal risk factors, and will show you how your drinking habits compare to other college students.

e-CHUG can also help you determine your readiness to change and will identify resources for obtaining assistance. If you need verification of your use of e-CHUG, be sure to print the Certificate of Completion when you have completed the program.

Proceed to e-CHUG

Meet Logan

Hey Everyone,

I pretty much ended my main stage theater season at CWC in the best way possible, with an awesome performance in an awesome show with an awesome cast, aka “Fiddler on the Roof.” Through all the ridiculously long nights at rehearsal to the dress and techs that were even more so, this turned out to be the best show I have had the privilege to act in. And now that it is over, I have to put all concentration on the Student Directed One Acts that are coming not too far away. These shows are by far some of the best parts of the year! You get to be cast in a variety of shows and, best of all, you can dink around with it and a lot of the time what you were goofing around doing for fun turns out to be in the director’s interests so you can keep doing it!

Aside from all the excitements of the theater my eyes have once again been reopened to the world of stand-up comedy through my friends. I got to finally watch the new Gabriel Iglesias “I’m not Fat I’m Fluffy.” So far I’ve watched it twice and laughed just as hard the second time through. But other than that all I can say about my time the past couple weeks is RA duty and mail-room work. Both of which have had their times of ups and downs as with any job, but hey I don’t complain.

Talk to you all later

Logan LaCross
Theater Major
Quality Leader

CWC students is Wyoming’s New Century Scholar

Phi Theta Kappa, the national community college honor society, has announced that CWC student, Amara Fehring, has been designated a “New Century Scholar!”  This honor is based on Amara having been the top scoring student in the state of Wyoming in the All-USA competition.  Amara will receive a $2,000 stipend and will be recognized at the American Association of Community Colleges Conference, April 17-19, in Seattle, Washington.  Congratulations to Amara for her outstanding academic and leadership accomplishments, leading to this prestigious award!  Thanks, also, to Lonnie Slack and Tara Womack for their work in successfully advancing Amara’s  nomination. 

WAY TO GO AMARA!!!

Sign up for Intramural Volleyball

CWC students and non-students may join.  See our poster. 

Coed League-Wednesday nights

Women’s League-Monday Nights

Contact the Activities & Intramural Office for more information or to sign up.
Student Center 107
855.2260
activities@cwc.edu

Meet Sharrayah

Hi everybody! My name is Sharrayah.

I am a Quality Leader and student here at Central Wyoming College. As a Quality Leader I get to meet many new people and I am able to participate in many different activities. I am a graphic design major. I love working on art as well as the computer so I am able to combine the two in an entertaining way.

An average day for me starts with waking up for a 10 o'clock class where things get very funny and hostile during the discussions that our class has about different social problems in our world today. It becomes so interesting when we get opinions from the international students that are in the class.

After that class I have a little bit of time to eat lunch before I am off to two other classes that are about the computer side of my degree. Soon into the classes my head is swimming in fonts and pictures!

My last class is not until the evening when I have photography. It helps me look at the world in a whole different way. Plus, I LOVE being able to see the world through another person's eyes in the way that they photograph things.

Once that class gets over around 9 p.m. I head home to work on a little bit of homework.

So concludes my day. Well everybody I hope you all have a good day and I hope to see you on campus!

Sharrayeh Harris
Quality Leader
Graphic Design Major

Olympic volleyball coach speaks at CWC tonight

Former Olympic coach John Kessel speaks to young athletes, coaches and parents at Central Wyoming College Thursday, March 11.

            Kessel, who has coached Olympic, paralympic and international volleyball teams, speaks to parents and young athletes from 6-7:30 p.m. and to youth coaches from 7:30-9 p.m. in CWC’s Little Theatre, located in the Student Center.

            Sponsored by CWC and R Recreation, Kessel is the director of membership development and disabled programs for USA Volleyball. He has been coaching since 1971 at the collegiate level, and was the leader for the Women’s U.S. Open titles in 1986 and 87, the coach for the gold medal-winning 2000 USA Olympic beach volleyball team in Sydney and for the bronze medal-winning 2004 USA Paralympic women’s sitting volleyball team in Athens.

            The sessions at CWC focus on young athletes, and he offers dynamic ways to make the opportunities found in sports better for all involved. He will challenge old ways of thinking and help coaches and parents develop motivated and dedicated players while having fun in the process. The sessions at CWC are free.

            For more information, contact R Recreation at 855-2015 or 855-2190.

Have you signed up for Campus Alerts?

Campus Safety has implemented an emergency alert system.  Students are encouraged to sign up for the notifications by logging on to MyCentral and clicking on the icon on the left side of the screen.

Willie LeClair tells traditional tales of his people and talks about living in two cultures

Willie LeClair will share traditional winter tales of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 12 at the Headwaters Center in Dubois. The program is free and open to all ages.

On Saturday morning March 13 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., LeClair will talk about growing up in two cultures during an informal workshop session called “Astride two cultures: The Indian in the Cowboy and the Cowboy in the Indian.”   LeClair’s goal is to dispel stereotypes that “encourage people to view American Indians as figures in the historical past, or, even worse, as the characters that Hollywood has created.”

LeClair speaks from experience when he talks about living in two worlds. He has lived in two worlds since birth. He was born in Fort Washakie, the son of a Shoshone rancher and a white mother.  He attended college and was learned traditional teachings from elders of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes.  In 1980 Will

LeClair, a Riverton resident, is an enrolled member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe who lectures extensively about the customs and traditions of his people.

He served in the military and has worked as an air traffic controller in Denver. He has also worked in construction in Wyoming and the Denver area, but ranching is his love. Until recently, LeClair raised Texas Longhorn cattle on his small ranch near Riverton.

The Friday lecture and Saturday morning workshop are sponsored by the Dubois Museum, Dubois Branch Library, and Central Wyoming College Dubois Outreach and funded by a grant from the Never Sweat Recreation Board.

For more information about LeClair’s programs call the Dubois Museum at 307-455-2284, the Dubois Branch Library at 307-455-2992 or the Central Wyoming College coordinator at 307-455-2625. For a complete list of events in Wyoming’s Wind River Country, go to http://www.wind-river.org or call 800-645-6233 for a free vacation packet.

Wildlife and natural history subject of March colloquium at CWC

A trio of Dubois residents provides an “armchair adventure” of Yellowstone National Park for Central Wyoming College’s March Colloquium Wednesday, March 10 at 3:30 p.m. in room 129 of CWC’s Classroom Wing.
CWC Dubois Outreach Coordinator Michele Burdick along with outfitter Meredith Taylor and photographer Cynthia Boyhan share images they gathered of bison, elk, coyote, fox and wolves.
Most people only experience Yellowstone in the summer, Burdick said, who took a group of 10 into Yellowstone in mid-February when a majority of the visitors are wolf researchers tracking the animals through radio collars. The trip was partially funded by the Wyoming Humanities Council “We the People” grant.
They had the opportunity to meet with Douglas Smith, who is the National Park Service’s wolf project leader, and to see a slide show by Dan Hartman, who is a year round Yellowstone resident who guides filmmakers in the park.
The adventure takes place near Mammoth and the Lamar Valley. The presenters will discuss human and natural history of the park, and relate information from the wolf experts.
Central schedules a colloquium, or academic discussion, each month and the public is invited to participate.

Comedy duo presents sexual assault awareness

Central Wyoming College hosts Sex Signals, a comedy duo that presents a sexual assault awareness program in a light-hearted way Thursday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Robert A. Peck Arts Center.

The two-person troupe combines improvisational comedy, education and audience participation to take a look at the provocative issues surrounding dating, sex, and the core issue of consent. The 90-minute play takes an irreverent look at the awkwardness of dating as the actors represent each gender’s perspective.

Sponsored by the CWC Student Senate and Activities Department, Sex Signals uses humor and explores mixed messages, gender role stereotypes and unrealistic fantasies that contribute to the misunderstandings between the sexes.

The show has been performed at more than 400 colleges and universities and engages students in a candid discussion as they are challenged to provide solutions that will better improve communications in interpersonal relationships.

The program is free and open to the public, but parents are advised that content may be racy and inappropriate for young children. For more information, contact Activities Coordinator Brittany Yeates at 855-2260.

Meet Jesse

Well, it's another normal day for me. You know, for once, I'd like to know what it feels like to be a "normal" student, if there exists such a thing. I used to think college would be all fun and no work, but that's not how it has panned out for me.
It's 4:00am, and I just got up so I can get ready for work. I open a local gym and work there in the morning from 4:30 am until I go to school. Once I'm at school, it's all business. I've worked hard for my good grades, and I will continue to work hard for them. CWC isn't the end for me; I need good grades so I can qualify for scholarships when I begin attending the University of Wyoming.
So...back to what I initially said. College isn't how I planned it. I work three jobs to make sure I can pay the bills.  I'm taking 14 credits this semester plus I volunteer for a local Boy Scout Troop as a Scout Master. I feel like I have no time to be a "kid."  Maybe that's a good thing. College has made me take on more responsibility and grow up. The hard work and effort I've put into it is helping me prepare myself for a career.
So maybe it's not that bad after all...
Jesse Miller
Quality Leader
Nursing Major

Down to the Final Four!

CWC Women's Basketball Team plays in the Semi Finals at 5:00pm TONIGHT vs. Otero

Listen on Rustler Radio 88.1

GO LADY RUSTLERS! 

March 8-12 is Safe Spring Break Week

All week long there will be materials in the hallway of the Student Center and Main Hall to help you think about having a safe Break! 

Make sure to stop by to pick up some great information!

Central’s spring break week is March 15-19th.

Catch the games!!

CWC’s basketball teams will be on the court at 1 p.m. Saturday at two different locations.

The men are at the Region IX Men's Basketball Tournament in Sheridan and play Miles City College.   You can catch the men’s game live on Rustler TV – Bresnan cable 5 in Riverton & Lander.

The women play Lamar Community College at the Region IX Women's Basketball Tournament in Sterling, CO.

Coverage of games will be broadcast on 88.1 Rustler Radio, CWC students will be broadcasting.

Did you know?

You can listen to Rustler Radio online

Don't Forget

Scholarship deadline is TODAY!
The online scholarship application can be found here.  Please remember you must set up a cwc.edu website account before you can complete the application.

Graduation applications are due TODAY!
The application is online.  Don't forget to meet with your advisor to ensure you have met requirements.

Meet Kelby

Hi, my name is Kelby Funk and this is my first year at Central Wyoming College. I graduated from Riverton High School as valedictorian with many duel credits. I started college as a sophomore through the CWC BOCHES program which really helped me progress through my degree requirements while still in high school. I am currently living in a single person dorm room in Mote Hall.  The room is a bit more than a double occupancy room; however, it allows me personal space and study time alone.

Living at the dorms is a great way to meet new people.  I really enjoy college here because there is always stuff going on.  Last Friday, we had a toga party which was pretty fun, lots of food and people playing games. During volleyball and basketball games the bleachers are normally full so we have a good crowd supporting our teams. This is a great college with great teachers and many ways to stay active.



CWC has great instructors which you really get to know because of the small classroom sizes. They really care about your success, they are always willing to help you and they want you to participate in the class. A lot of your grade is class participation, so you really get involved in the classes and the teachers try hard to get to know everybody’s names.

Quality Leaders is also a great way to get involved here at the college. I know a lot of people here and that is, in part, because of Quality Leaders and all of the activities that happen at the college.  Central Wyoming College is a great opportunity for anybody to further their education.


Kelby Funk
Quality Leader