Casper+Community+College

=Statistics=
 * Casper College **

Location: Casper Founded: 1945

=History=

Founded in 1945, Casper College was Wyoming's first community college.The present campus was born with the purchase of a portion of the site from the City of Casper in 1955, and the campus has continued to grow since then. In more recent years the college has completed construction of the Ben Roberts Commons (1979), Tate Earth Science Center and Mineralogical Museum (1980), Grace Werner Agriculture Pavilion (1980), Harry T. Thorson Institute of Business (1983), Career Studies Center (1983), Gertrude Krampert Theater (1985). Because it has consistently been the largest of the community colleges and because of it's location at the center of the state there has been pressure to add an upper division to the college and make it the second four-year institution in the state. Natrona County legislators have made three unsuccessful attempts to achieve legislative approval. Instead, the University of Wyoming established a center in Casper in 1976, and in 1988 Casper College and the University of Wyoming entered into an arrangement under which university upper division courses are offered in Casper College facilities.

=Presidents=


 * **President** ||  || **Service Began** ||   || **Service Ended** ||
 * Dean Morgan ||  || 1945 ||   || 1958 ||
 * Maurice F. Griffith ||  || 1958 ||   || 1961 ||
 * Tilghman H. Aley ||  || 1961 ||   || 1979 ||
 * Lloyd Loftin ||  || 1979 ||   || 1988 ||
 * Lester Vierra ||  || 1988 ||   || 1990 ||
 * LeRoy Strausner ||  || 1991 ||   || 2004 ||
 * Dr. Walter Nolte ||  || 2005 ||   || 2014 ||
 * Darrin Divine ||  || 2015 ||   ||   ||