Volume 3 Number 2Fall 2008

New “energy” program ready 2Scholarship endowments established 3Booster Club readies for big event 5Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes to CWC 7Focusing on refugees 9CWC hosts recreation program 11College radio station changes format 12

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Central Wyoming College and oil and gas industry partners are proposing two new programs de-signed for students interested in the environmen-tal, safety, technical and compliance fi elds within the energy trade. CWC is seeking approval from the Wyoming Community College Commission for technician degrees in Environment, Health and Safety (EHS). “A very active advisory committee, represent-ing business, industry, and state and federal com-pliance agencies, has worked hard to establish the curriculum and program requirements,” said Executive Vice President for Academic Services J.D. Rottweiler, who added the EHS degrees will meet pressing workforce training needs in our service area. A grant from EnCana Oil and Gas allowed the college to conduct a needs assessment for the programs and CWC is waiting to hear on a $1.3 million Department of Labor grant to implement and sustain the programs. “EnCana and other local industry leaders recognize the EHS curriculum is something that we need and that we have a diffi cult time fi nding properly trained personnel for that side of the business, “said Randy Teeuwen, the community relations advisor for EnCana. To verify the indus-try’s assumption of the need for the program, EnCana paid for the assessment. “We discovered there is a need,” he said of the detailed study. “We liked the proposed cur-riculum and decided we would provide funding over a three-year period of $300,000 to get the

program started.” Now EnCana is encouraging other industry partners to add to the program endowment that will be matched dollar for dollar by the state Endowment Challenge Match. “We are taking the lead to get it started,” he said. The college is also initiating partnerships with Devon Energy, Conoco Phillips, Nucor Energy, Burlington Resources, Questar Energy, Shell Oil, Marathon Oil, Strathmore Uranium Resources, Sanjel Oilfi eld Services and other participating industry partners in support of the proposed program. The needs assessment conducted by CWC’s Workforce Education Offi ce and the Wyoming Department of Employment sup-port the EHS program and its two degree options, Rottweiler said, explaining that oil, gas, mining and other energy-related industries in this region are required to adhere to strict governmental regulations and standards related to environment, health and safety issues. The energy explosion in Wyoming and the increased environmental health and safety regulations required by fed-eral, state, and local governments has made properly training this workforce essential, Rottweiler said. There are very few colleges in the country that offer these types of degree programs, he added. “The industry is currently expe-riencing a severe shortage of quali-

fi ed individuals to meet the growing demand for technical positions,” said Mohammed Waheed, CWC’s Vice President for Student Services and the author of the Community Based Job Training grant. Department of Labor data suggests a need for 512 EHS-related jobs.

The college was approached by industry representatives to meet the demand and to provide industry-specifi c training opportuni-ties for its employees and for a future labor force. In addition to the pair of two-year Envi-ronment Technician and Health and Safety Technician programs, the college intends to provide customized training to immediately respond to the current shortage of skilled workers. “There is a high demand for specialized classes to be offered in a format that allows for existing workers to be trained in the EHS curriculum,” said Assistant Dean for Workforce and Community Education Lynne McAuliffe. “These courses will be identifi ed by industry and provided upon demand at a time and place most conducive to meeting the participant’s needs.” The programs are set to offi cially begin in the fall of 2009.

Energy partners work to develop new CWC program

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CWC Foundation staff honor family members with scholarship endowments Two staff members of the Central Wyoming College Foundation are showing donors that they do what they say and say what they do. Lynette Jeffres, assistant director of the Foun-dation, and Jody Ray, the foundation’s former offi ce assistant, each created scholarship endow-ments to honor members of their families. The pair is truly putting their “money where their mouths are” since the main emphasis of their work is to get donations to support college operations, but more specifi cally, the college’s scholarship endowments. As an advisor to the CWC Quality Leaders and other students who receive scholarships through the college’s Foundation, Lynette knows how the extra assistance can make a big difference in a student’s life. She is often the recipient of letters from grateful students and hears heartwarming stories at the Foundation’s Annual Scholarship reception. Jody has witnessed the personal satisfaction experienced by donors who have created endow-ments like Andy Boulette and Mabel Blakely in Lander, and Foundation President Joe Geraud. These donors and many others have provided a sustained source of support for students in an educational system where their dollars make a strong impact, she said. Lynette and her sister Carla Scheer donated $5,000 to the foundation to establish the Bill and Sally Culbertson Nursing Endowment to me-morialize their grandparents who were longtime Worland residents. Jody and her siblings, Bill Fleak of Riverton, Randy Fleak of Sheridan, Greg Fleak of Gillette

and Wanda McMullen of Orville, Calif., have es-tablished the Violet C. Fleak GED Scholarship to honor their mother, who earned her GED at CWC in 1971. The donations by both families are particularly timely as the state of Wyoming is matching do-nations to community colleges through June 30, 2009. The donations, as well as any other dona-tions made to the perpetual fund, are automati-cally doubled by the state’s Endowment Challenge

Match. Interest from the initial $10,000 in the endowment is expected to generate a minimum $500 scholarship for the rest of time. Lynette’s sister’s donation to the endowment is also matched by Marathon Oil, the company she works for in Dickinson, N.D. “The money she’s putting in is quadrupled,” she noted. The same is true of Bill Fleak’s donation as he works for United Parcel Service, which has a company policy to match this type of gift. Jody is also hopeful that her husband Ted’s donation is matched by BP Amoco, the company from which he retired. Jeffres and Scheer established the memorial scholarship to honor their grandparents, who would have turned 100 this year. “It is something we have wanted to do to honor them,” she said of her grandparents. “It is nice to still have their name spoken.” Sally, her grandmother, was the school nurse for all seven Worland schools from the 1940s to the 1970s. She was instrumental in establish-ing the strep throat culture program and taught health classes in the schools. Her grandfather worked for Holly Sugar for many years, was very active in the Boy Scouts and was a swimming instructor for the Red Cross. He also helped in the establishment of a rifl e range for the community. Bill was a well-known local beekeeper who also served a term as State Bee Inspector. “One of the things my grandfather always told me is that there are only two things you can truly control in your life . . . your integrity and your education.” Jody’s mother turns 80, two days after the

Lynette Jeffres, CWC Foundation assistant direc-tor, and her sister created a scholarship to honor their late grandparents Bill and Sally Culbert-son. (continued on page 8)

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May 2009 GED commencement. Violet, who still works almost full-time in Riverton, was 46 when she enrolled in the GED program at CWC. “She was forced to quit school at 14 because her mother passed away,” said Jody, who said her mother always wanted to complete her high school di-ploma. When her three oldest children enrolled at college it was time for Violet to finish, too. Violent also considered a college education, but with the successive and untimely deaths of her 18-year-old daughter Elaine, her father and

later her husband Thaine Fleak, she was the “lone bread winner,” Jody explained. “She couldn’t ful-fill that dream, but she wanted to make sure her children did and she has been a huge mentor to her grandchildren,” she added. The Fleak Scholar-ship is intended for anyone who earned their GED to enroll at CWC. Gifts made through June 30, 2009 are be-ing matched by the state fund, but Lynette said anyone who pledges a donation before that has an additional 18 months to fulfill the gift. Anyone wishing to add to the Culbertson Nurs-ing Endowment may call Lynette at 307-855-2254 or 800-735-8418, ext. 2254.

SUNDAY, FEB. 8

Viola C. Fleak, second from right, was surprised by a donation from her family to establish a scholar-ship for GED graduates at Central Wyoming College. From left are Jeremy and granddaughter Sarah Hughes (holding great grandson, Landon), son Randy Fleak of Sheridan, daughter Jody Ray and husband Ted, the honoree and grandson Andre Fleak, a CWC student.

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Parents of college-bound students

should get their 2008 tax information gath-

ered in time for College Goal Sunday, a Feb. 8

event at Central Wyoming College that assists those

applying for federal financial aid.

CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS

New Student Orientation ...............January 6-8

Spring classes begin ......................January 12

Faculty Art Exhibition ............... Jan. 8-Feb. 15

Information Fair ...........................January 21

Library/Student Success Center Open House .................................January 28

Jackpot Series ..............................January 31

Jazz Nite III ................................ February 6

College Goal Sunday ...................... February 8

Dinner and a Concert ....................February 12

Financial Aid Awareness Week ...........Feb. 9-12

West Was Won Exhibition ...... Feb. 18-March 29

CWC Scholarship Deadline ...................March 1

CWC Musical “Carnival” ......... March 5-7, 12-13

CWC Spring Break (no classes) .......March 16-20

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To have a successful athletics program, Central Wyoming College Athletic Director Serol Stauffen-berg believes a supportive, active booster club needs to be in place.

donor recognition on the Booster Club website. Booster Club donations will not only help the Rustlers develop a tradition but also provide ad-ditional scholarship and recruiting funds. When the college first started talking about bringing back intercollegiate athletics to CWC, supporters came out of the woodwork to encour-age the CWC Board to approve the plan. Stauffen-berg hopes that all the fans who filled Rustler Gym for volleyball the past two years and now for Rustler basketball will officially voice their sup-port by becoming Booster Club members. In 2006, CWC fielded a volleyball team that was not only successful on the court but also in the classroom. In its first two years, the team was designated as Academic All-Americans and three of the six 2008 CWC valedictorians were from Stauffenberg’s first volleyball team. After a successful inaugural season with the 2006 volleyball team, the CWC Board decided to move forward and re-start basketball in 2008. Jamie Stevens, an assistant coach at the Colorado School of Mines, was selected from a large pool of applicants to coach the new men’s basketball team. Stauffenberg was then promoted to athletic director, and was named women’s bas-ketball coach. Stauffenberg’s assistant coach, his wife Tiffany, now has head coaching duties of the Rustler volleyball team, and was recently chosen as the “Region IX Coach of the Year.” Stauffenberg, and later Stevens, were given a full year on the CWC staff to recruit for their

As CWC reintroduces men’s and women’s bas-ketball this fall after a 17-year hiatus, Stauffen-berg said a booster club is essential to meet the special needs of his department.

The club is an important ingredient to building a sports tradition at CWC. Right now, Central is the only college in the state without a formal group of boosters and Stauffenberg is attempting to change that. This summer, he launched a booster club membership drive to unite alumni, CWC staff and community members to develop team spirit, loyalty and financial support. The initial response was healthy with about 100 people or businesses donating $100. Stauffenberg’s goal is to have 1,000 members pledge their support, and he’s sweetening the deal with a number of incen-tives to join. One of the enticements for a $100 membership is a spring event featuring Pete Rose, who established his place in base-ball history when he set the all-time major league hit record of 4,192. The Hit King, who shattered Hall of Famer Ty Cobb's mark of 4,191, will be here this spring, and a Rus-tler Booster Club member gets two tickets to the social. With each $100 membership purchased, a name is entered into a drawing for 30 prizes, including a brand new vehicle, a side-by-side

Polaris Ranger and gas cards. Other incentives include a “Kids Day with the Rustlers,” as well as

Pete Rose makes a guest appearance at the Rustler Booster Club social planned for this spring. Watch for more details.

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crowds for home volleyball matches, which creates some level of concern for Stauffenberg because he assumes basketball will have even a greater draw. “It’s a good problem to have,” he said, but notes that because he is scheduling men’s and women’s basketball games for the same night, seating for only 700 people could be an issue. “We’ll have to come up with a game plan on how to handle that.” Before budget cuts forced Central to elimi-nate intercollegiate roundball athletics, CWC was a force to be reckoned with. The Lady Rustlers went to the national basketball tournament in 1982, 1984, 1985, and 1986. Fran Buckless was the head coach during the 1982 campaign and then Todd Cotton guided the Rustlers to the other Region IX titles.

sports and to begin building the tradition that CWC once had. At the beginning of the fall semester, Stevens had 27 young men wanting to be a Rustler. “That’s the nature of men’s basketball,”Stauffenberg said. “They’ll come from anywhere to try out.” Obviously Stevens had to trim his roster, but Stauffenberg said the two

basketball programs initially accounted for an increase of 41 students at CWC. When it comes time to recruit for the 2009-10 season, the two won’t have the luxury of attend-ing multiple high school tournaments because they’ll be busy with coaching responsibilities. “Recruiting for the second year of volleyball was signifi cantly harder,” said Stauffenberg. “In basketball and volleyball, you want to be in a hundred places at the same time,” he said of tour-naments in different regions scheduled simultane-ously. Booster Club funds make it possible to hire assistants to help with recruiting. CWC has made a great commitment to athletics in terms of facilities upgrades and some scholar-ship funds. However, the coaches rely heavily on academic scholarships to recruit, which doesn’t always work for a player who may be out of high school for a year or two. Rustler gym has had standing-room-only

The early CWC men’s team didn’t have as much success as their female counterparts though they were in the fi nal four of several Region IX tourna-ments. You may complete the form below and mail it, along with your check to the CWC Athletic Depart-ment.

CWC Booster Club Membership Form

Name _______________________________________ Phone_ ___________________ Email __________________ _

Address: ______________________________________________ City _________________ State ____ Zip ________

How would you like your name to appear in the program? 1) _____________________________________________

2) _____________________________________________

3) _____________________________________________

______ memberships x $100 = _______total due

Make checks payable CWC Athletic Dept. and mail to:CENTRAL WYOMING COLLEGEattn: Serol Stauffenberg, Athletic Director2660 Peck Avenue, Riverton, WY 82501307.855.2272

Tiffany Stauffenberg Coach of Year

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MEN’S BASKETBALLJan. 2 SNOW COLLEGEJan. 9 at Sheridan CollegeJan. 10 at Northwest CollegeJan. 16 at Western Wyoming CollegeJan. 17 at Casper CollegeJan. 23 NORTHEASTERN JR. COLLEGEJan. 30 at Eastern Wyoming CollegJan. 31 at Laramie Co. Comm. CollegeFeb. 6 NORTHWEST COLLEGEFeb. 7 SHERIDAN COLLEGEFeb. 12 EASTERN WYOMING COLLEGEFeb. 20 WESTERN WYOMING COLLEGEFeb. 21 CASPER COLLEGEMarch 7-11 Region IX TournamentMar. 17-21 National Jr. College Tourn.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLJan. 2 SNOW COLLEGEJan. 9 at Sheridan CollegeJan. 10 at Northwest CollegeJan. 16 at Western Wyoming CCJan. 17 at Casper CollegeJan. 23 NORTHEASTERN JR. COLLEGEJan. 30 at Eastern Wyoming CollegeFeb. 6 NORTHWEST COLLEGEFeb. 7 SHERIDAN COLLEGEFeb. 12 EASTERN WYOMING COLLEGEFeb. 20 WESTERN WYO. CCFeb. 21 CASPER COLLEGEMarch 7-11 Region IX TournamentMar. 17-21 National Jr. College Tourn.

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N. Scott Momaday, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author for his fi rst novel House Made of Dawn, is the guest of Central Wyoming College April 2 and 3. In addition to informal gatherings with CWC students and a public presentation on April 2, Momaday, whose fi rst book led to the break-through of Native American literature into the mainstream, will also speak with Fremont County high school students at two different locations on April 3. The events cap the fi nal evening with a Com-munity Honoring Feast at Fort Washakie for the writer who is also a well-known artist and fi lm-maker. Momaday is the son of the author Natachee Scott Momaday and the painter Al Momaday. He was born on the Kiowa Reservation in Oklahoma and was featured in the Ken Burns and Steven Ives’ documentary, The West, for his masterful retelling of Kiowa history and legend. In 2007, President George W. Bush awarded Momaday the National Medal of Arts, “for his writings and his work that celebrate and preserve Native American art and oral tradition.” He is the poet laureate of Oklahoma. A year after his birth, Momaday moved with his parents to Arizona and he was exposed to not only the Kiowa traditions of his father’s family but also to the Navajo, Apache and Pueblo Indian cultures of the Southwest. He developed an inter-est in literature at a young age, especially poetry. After graduation from the University of New Mexico, and a year of teaching on the Apache

reservation at Jicarilla, Momaday won a poetry fellowship to the creative writing program at Stanford University. Under the guidance of poet and critic Yvor Winters, Momaday earned a doctor-ate in English literature in 1963, and accepted a teaching post at the University of California at Santa Barbara. As his doctoral dissertation, he edited and annotated the complete works of the 19th century American poet Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. It was published by Oxford University Press in 1965. Professor Momaday left Berkeley for Stanford in 1973. Since 1982, he has lived in Tucson and taught at the University of Arizona, giving occa-sional lectures at other schools including Princ-eton and Columbia. His more recent books in-clude: The Ancient Child (1989), In the Presence of the Sun (1991), Circle of Wonder: A Native

N. Scott Momaday books/videos available at Central Wyoming College Library – Spring 2009

The Ancient Child. An intriguing combination of myth, fi ction, and storytelling. (2 copies)

Four Arrows & Magpie: A Kiowa Story. The mythic legend of how the Kiowa Indians fi rst arrived in Okla-homa will awaken children to the richness of Native American heritage. (Ages 4-8).

house Made of Dawn. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a young American Indian named Abel, who lived in two worlds.

house Made of Dawn. American Audio Prose Li-brary, 1987. (Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning novel described above.)

house Made of Dawn. New Line Home Video: 1 video-cassette (77 min.). (Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning novel described above.)

In the Bear’s house. Mixed media collage, 40 paint-ings, a dialogue, 20 poems, and two poetic prose sections, all on the subject of the bear, an animal of cosmic and spiritual signifi cance among the Kiowa Indians.

In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991.

The Names: A Memoir. Personal memoir of the au-thor’s boyhood in Oklahoma, complete with family photos.

“She is beautiful in her whole being” (short story) in Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories by Craig Lesley.

Author visits CWC in April

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CWC develops medical coding course to help local offi ces Central Wyoming College is developing a series of courses to train medical coders, a profession that is in demand by local medical offi ces. This spring, CWC is offering a web-based course called Medical Billing and Reimbursement (BOTK 2622) that in-troduces students to the changing medical coding industry. This course, and two others that will be introduced at a later date, prepare students to take the CPC®, CPC-H® or CPC-P® certifi cation exams administered by the American Associa-tion of Professional Coders (AAPC), said Business Technology Professor Margaret Peart. In the Medical Billing and Reimbursement course, Peart said students are introduced to common medical billing practices, the health insurance industry, and legal and regu-latory issues and differences in reimbursement methodolo-gies. “They will receive extensive practice in using the three major coding manuals,” she said of the course that begins in January. CWC is developing the courses in response to a survey conducted last spring that indicated more than 60 percent of local medical offi ces were seeking trained medical coders. Medical terminology is a prerequisite to this course, and for those who seek the highest certifi cation, students eventually need to take anatomy. Peart said the job outlook for medical coders is expected to grow faster than the average for all occupations and that jobs prospects are very good. New jobs are expected in offi ces of physicians as a result of increasing demand for detailed records, especially in large group practices. Jobs are also expected in home health care services, outpatient care centers and nursing and residential care facilities. For more information, contact Peart at 855-2130. Reg-istration for the spring continues through Jan. 9.

American Christmas Story (1993), and The Native Americans: Indian Country (1993). He is also the author of a play, The Indolent Boys, and was featured in the award-win-ning documentary fi lm Remembered Earth: New Mexico’s High Desert.

Momaday wins Pulitzer Prize Momaday was an unknown author when he won the Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn. It was his fi rst novel and even more surprisingly, to some observers, the win-ner was a Kiowa Indian who had grown up largely in the reservations and pueblos of the Southwest, far from supposed centers of learning and letters. As a whole world of readers and critics were soon to learn, there are no limits to N. Scott Momaday’s talents or his vision. As novelist, scholar, painter, printmaker and – above all – poet, Momaday’s work has encompassed a panorama as wide as the western landscapes he celebrates. Through his novels, poems, plays, books of folk tales and memoirs, essays and speeches, he has won international respect, not only for himself, but for the Native traditions that inform his work. At the same time, he has helped to reacquaint the mod-ern world with an ancient understanding of the intimate connection between human-kind and the natural world. N. Scott Momaday is featured in the award-winning documentary fi lm Remem-bered Earth: New Mexico’s High Desert.

Three Plays: The Indolent Boys; Children of the Sun; The Moon in Two Windows. “The Indolent Boys” recounts the 1891 tragedy of runaways from the Kiowa Boarding School who froze to death while trying to return to their families. “Children of the Sun,” a joyous counterpoint to this tragedy, is a short children’s play that explains the people’s relationship to the sun. “The Moon in Two Windows,” a screenplay set in the early 1900s, centers on the children of defeated Indian tribes, who are forced into assimilation at Carlisle, Penn., where the U.S. government established the fi rst off-reservation boarding school.

“Voices of Encounter” in Lewis and Clark through Indian Eyes, by Alvin M. Josephy. New York: Knopf, 2006.

The Way to Rainy Mountain. These stories are told in three voices. The fi rst voice is the voice of the author’s father, the ancestral voice, and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The sec-ond is the voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal reminiscence, the author’s voice.

Momaday: Voice of the West (VHS). Dr. Momaday reads from his memoirs and shares material from his published works, in this absorbing profi le of an outstanding Native American artist.

Carriers of the Dream Wheel: Contemporary Native American Poetry, ed. by Duane Niatum. New York : Harper & Row, 1975.

Native Universe: Voices of Indian America, ed. by Gerald McMaster and Clifford E. Trafzer. Wash-ington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2004.

More materials available from other libraries in Wyoming.

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As a participant in Oxford University’s Interna-tional Summer School in Forced Migration, Central Wyoming College Political Science Professor Jim Thurman is building an international network of resources to share with his students. Thurman was one of 70 people from 36 differ-ent countries who converged on the English uni-versity’s School of Refugee Studies last summer to work on improving the situation of people who have been forcibly uprooted from their homes by war, persecution and extreme poverty. Thurman, who has worked in refugee settle-ment programs in Chicago and Louisville, KY and is focusing his doctoral dissertation on refugee policies, met with governmental officials, human rights attorneys, and non-governmental agencies during the three-week program. He greatly benefited from the international

mix and exposure to professionals in the field and believes his students, especially those enrolled in his spring Ethnic Conflict and Genocide course will benefit, too. Thurman has been the key faculty member developing CWC’s new program in International Studies. “It’s a global world,” he said, stressing that international studies is not limited to history, political science and anthropology. “Things are so interconnected these days. We can’t sit in Wyo-ming and be unaffected by the outside world.” Those who were invited to Oxford worked in smaller groups to focus on particular issues, such as human trafficking, forced labor and abuse of displaced people. Other groups focused on protecting the rights of refugees and worked to gain cooperation from the governments of those involved. All participants came together to hear

visiting lecturers and participated in interactive exercises. Thurman, who had been away from his work in refugee centers for more than eight years said, “the places are different, the wars are differ-ent, but the same issues are going on now.” The refugees he dealt with had been victims of ethnic conflict, including Bosnian Muslims, Kurds from Iraq, and Tutsi from Rwanda. In the U.S., Thurman said the president es-tablishes a quota for refugees. Depending on the current political situation worldwide, he may give 80,000 the right of asylum, and 12 or 13 agencies get together and divide up that number between different resettlement sites around the country. Large metropolitan areas have been the desti-nation of most resettlements because of available

International networking:focusing on refugees and forced migration

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resources and ethnic groupings. But Thurman said mid-sized cities like Louisville or Indianapo-lis are some times better for refugees to assimi-late. Wyoming is the only state in the U.S. that does not have a resettlement area for victims of forced migration. Refugees, he said, are non-immigrants who were forced to leave the place they live because of civil wars. “In most cases, they have already lost family members, have had their homes destroyed and had no choice but to save their lives,” he said, using entire groups of Albanians who were uprooted during the Bosnian War as examples. There is now recognition that the environment may force people to flee their homes, Thurman added. “Some are fleeing global climate change,” he said, explaining there are arguments as to whether people who migrate because of weather-related disasters should be lumped together with victims of violence. “The outcome is similar, but the root causes are so different,” he said, who has witnessed ethic conflicts around the world after living in such places as Osh, Kyrgyzstan, where Uzbeks and Kyrgyz had major conflict and hundreds have been killed in recent years; Crimea, where Rus-sians, Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars have a his-tory of difficult co-existence, and Turkey, where there continues to be conflict between Turks and Kurds as well as Armenians. Thurman also participated last spring in the Hess Seminar, a week-long educator workshop at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Thurman is now working with the University of Wyoming as co-manager of Department of Education Title VI grant project that will assist the community colleges in “internationalizing” the curriculum. If successful, the grant will bring more than $300,000 to the community colleges for curriculum development, study abroad proj-ects, an international lecture series as well as strengthening foreign language instruction.International studies will enhance just about any field of study, he said.

7694 POLS-1200-60NON-WESTERN POLITICAL CULTURES

3 credits internet class

7672 POLS-2215-90CEThNIC CONFLICT AND GENOCIDE

3 credits Tues/Thurs 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM

CWC is noted for technology For the third time, Central Wyoming College is listed in the top-10 tech savvy, cutting edge community colleges by the Center for Digital Education and Converge magazine. The fourth annual Digital Community Colleges Survey examined areas of technology rang-ing from online admissions, student access to transcripts and grades, information security and infrastructure. Thirty-one colleges in three size categories were named to the top ten lists. CWC is second among colleges with less than 3,000 students. “CWC is implementing innovative projects and programs with technology that are setting new standards for post-secondary education,” said John Wood, CWC’s Chief Information Officer. Just recently, CWC has implemented a student portal that gives students immediate access to class information, grades, transcripts, student services and a wide variety of resources. Wood said CWC is committed to improve deliv-ery of services to students as well as leading the way for proving that enhanced learning environ-ments make a difference in a student’s college experience as well as in their careers. CWC is preparing to launch a new website this spring that will provide inquiring students and other visitors information that meets their per-sonal needs. The web site will interact with the college’s student management database content management system. CWC’s sister college in Cheyenne, Laramie County Community College, placed first in the mid-sized college category.

CWC Professor Jim Thurman visited Stonehenge while participating at Oxford University’s Inter-national Summer School in Forced Migration.

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SPRING 2009 COURSES

International

In the two months since Central Wyoming College began providing recre-ational services for the city of Riverton, the college has already registered about half of those who are typically served in a full year. Assistant Dean Lynne McAuliffe, whose Workforce and Community Educa-tion Department has been contracted by the city of Riverton to develop and organize recreational services in the community, said in the first two months, more than 1,100 people have registered for recreational programs. The response to CWC’s implementation of recreational services has been “fabulous,” McAuliffe said. “We’ve been met with open arms.” This fall, the college accepted a proposal by city officials, who had been struggling to coordinate the community’s recreational activities. The city turned over funds that it had historically provided to recreation to the college to “leverage additional services and to take recreation to a point of delivery that this community hasn’t experienced before,” City Administrator Carter Napier said. CWC had the infrastructure and systems in place to take care of the pro-gram, including staff oversight, marketing, registration and facilities, McAu-liffe explained, which has allowed the college to put more money back into recreational programming. In addition to the city funds, resources have been assigned to the program by the School District 25 Recreation Board as well as financial assistance from EnCana, she said. These assets will allow the college to continue and expand sum-mer youth activities that had previously been grant-funded, and to develop offerings that haven’t been attempted or tried for several years, including a summer theater program and a children’s choir. The college has been providing adult educational programming for years through its Community Education Department so the coor-dination of youth, recreation and activities for senior citizens can be achieved with “economy of scale,” said CWC Executive Vice President J.D. Rottweiler. The duties of recreational programming have been split among campus departments that avoid duplication of services. The CWC Department of Workforce and Community Education along with Kristy Salisbury, director of CWC’s Gear Up and Edu-

cational Talent Search programs, are sharing responsibilities for the oversight of Recreation for Riverton. Salisbury and Mary Axthelm are organizing the athletic activities, including basketball, volleyball, soccer, open gym and other events. CWC’s Community Education coordinator in Riverton, Sherry Shelley, and Jennifer Jahnke, who also coordinates CWC’s workforce development training, are organizing the youth and adult cultural, arts and crafts activities. McAuliffe expects the offerings to all age groups to “broaden” over time as her team is continually looking to enhance recreational services. “We are really excited about it,” she said, referring to more activities for senior citi-zens, free Saturday matinees for all ages, and cooking classes for youngsters as examples. “We view our role as being a community clearing house for recreational activities,” she said, explaining that any organization in Riverton can be in-cluded in “R” Recreation publications and advertising. The “R” Recreation office, conveniently located in the annex of CWC’s Professional-Technical Center, is staffed from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. The college is also hoping registration can occur online in the future. The college is also hoping to attract large events, such as an AAU Volleyball tournament, to Riverton with the savings afforded by coordinating services. She is appreciative of the generosity of School District 25 and other Riverton

groups for the use of facilities to pull off the expanded events. At the September meeting of the CWC Board, trustees agreed the col-lege should enter into an agreement with the city. The contract only makes the college responsible for providing the services through June 30, 2009. After the ten-month trial, the college and city will decide if the partnership is mutually beneficial. “I believe that this request for services is consistent with other offer-

ings we provide in community education,” said Rottweiler, who notes that CWC already has partnered with the Dubois school dis-trict, town and the recreation board to provide these services. The city still maintains its responsibilities over the afterschool program that is held in a facility in downtown Riverton. Call 855-2043 for more information.

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Central Wyoming College is changing the format of its student-operated FM radio station to a completely different genre, which new radio instructor John Gabrielsen said will hopefully at-tract new students to the program. Gabrielsen, a longtime Riverton sportscaster, is also planning to have students do play-by-play of CWC athletics on KCWC-FM, which he intends to stream over the college’s website so parents of athletes and radio personalities far from the station’s broadcast reach may also listen. For many years, the commercial-free station has played jazz, but Gabrielsen believes students will be more drawn to the radio program if the station plays music of their generation. “If the kids like the music and want to play the music, they’ll have greater interest in it,” said Gabrielsen, who replaced long-time broad-casting Professor Dale Smith this fall. “The for-mat will be truly unique. There’s only one other radio station with that format.” Gabrielsen calls the genre Bright AC, which includes the best music from the ‘80s, 90s to now. It features great pop songs by the Goo Goo Dolls, John Mayer and Kelly Clarkson, alternatives by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Greenday, urban hits by Christina Aguilera and Beyonce, plus rock hits by U2, Nickelback and Three Doors Down. “Prospective students will hear how cool KCWC is and it will refl ect positively on the program,” said Gabrielsen. “We want students to listen to it.” Gabrielsen, who was general manager at River-ton KVOW/KTAK before joining the CWC staff, said

KCWC-FM will be run just like any other station with news, weather, programs and sports; all of which will be generated by students. KCWC will continue to be commercial free though under-writers will assist the station in paying for the programming. Students will also be creating public service announcements for the station. Gabrielsen was presented with the Distin-guished Service Award from the Wyoming Coaches Hall of Fame shortly before joining the CWC staff. “I was blown away that I would be included in that company,” he said other local sports fi gures, such as Rich Bircumshaw, Leora Kennedy, Bill Kilmer, Bill Strannigan and Carl Andre, who have been given this honor. Prior to his stint at KVOW/KTAK, Gabrielsen was the voice of the Wyoming Cowgirls. He believes “teaching is in his blood,” as his mother Karen Goetzinger and wife, Leslie are both educa-tors. He is a 1989 graduate of Wind River High School.

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Communication-2205-01 SURVEY OF SPORTS BROADCASTING

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