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Wingspan
By Mathew McKay
Contributing Writer
One of the first programs
offered at Laramie County
Community College dating to
the 1970s could be reinstated as
early as next fall in addition to
other changes within the area of
technical fields.
After dropping the welding
program just more than 10
years ago, LCCC officials are
hard at work targeting this fall
as the opening semester for the
welding program. Doug Cook,
dean of the Career and Technical
Education Center said that during
the last three to four years
the demand has increased for
students training in this technical
field and even more demand
for special area trainees overall.
LCCC President Dr. Joe
Schaffer said: “The technology
has changed so much that now
to enter into the field of welding
it isn’t one of those things where
I can recruit people off the
street. They are now looking for
people who come out of specific
programs that teach it.”
After starting the process
just more than a year ago by
looking at other programs in the
state and assembling groups
of people with knowledge of
the field for an advisory board,
LCCC officials moved the basic
idea of adding the program
through several boards including
the Academic Standards
Committee and the deans’
Learning Leadership Team, also
known as the LLT.
Cook explained the program
is a long way from being finished;
however, after the LCCC
trustees recently took the first
step in accepting the program
of study as a curriculum on Jan.
21, they accepted the proposal
to expand the facilities. The
board will further review the
curriculum after the scheduled
February study session.
Meanwhile, the program
being currently modeled
after the Northern Wyoming
Community College district’s
welding program seems to be
on its way. NWCC is one of six
community colleges in Wyoming
with a welding program.
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In addition
to the process
of setting a
curriculum,
LCCC has hired
an architect to
design of space
after agreeing a
2,000-squarefeet
addition is needed to the
Career and Technical Center
Building. The addition will cost
about $329,000.
At this point if and when the
welding program gets under
way, the first welding class will
likely be limited to 12–15 students
based on the space and instructors
available in the startup
of the program. It is predicted
to grow quickly though as new
space becomes available at the
Flex Tech Building, also being
proposed for construction.
The second change
currently being explored
is the installment of a
process technology program
focused on the jobs
and industries associated
primarily with oil refineries
and other types of
industries that use some type of
technology to refine materials.
Cook said the program is in
its beginning stages of planning
and has been strongly pushed by
a state interest in improving the
safety records at current refineries
with addition to stabilizing
and providing a highly skilled
work force.
The board is considering
a brand-new Flex Technology
Building of about 54,000 square
feet to create space for the
industrial technology expansion
and welding. Now, it is expected
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2,000 square feet to be added to tech
More than $300,000 will go
to making more room
in the Technical Center.
to be built by late 2016 or early
2017.
The final step to developing
this program will be to hire
professors specialized in certain
areas and to hire part-time
workers to help teach specialized
fields. President Schaffer
said the overall budget for the
enlargement will likely come
from the one mill levy, which
consists of accumulated taxes
collected from Laramie County
and the Work Force Division. In
addition, the project will be built
into next year’s budget.
If for some reason the idea
of adding either program isn’t
realized, Schaffer said the board
of trustees and the campus staff
have plenty of other items on
the agenda that they will first
have to sort through to figure
out which direction to head.