HLC Self-study 2010

Institutional Profile

Northwest College 2011 Facts*

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    Founding

• Founded in 1946, NWC is a two-year, comprehensive community college serving Park County (tax district) and Park, Big Horn and Washakie Counties (service area).

    Accreditation

• Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
  www.ncacihe.org

    Students

• 2,173 credit students
  • 65% — full-time
    35% — part-time
    72% — Wyoming
    23% — other states
      5% — other countries

    Annual Cost

• $10,148 approximate total
  

  (Wyoming resident living on campus†)
  • $2,246 — resident tuition and fixed fees†
    $4,202 — room & board (2 per room, 19 meals/week)
    $1,000 — books & supplies
    $1,500 — personal/misc 
    $1,200 — transportation

  
  †$5,510 nonresident tuition & fixed fees

    Student Scholarships

• 44% of students receive scholarships (Dollars awarded by NWC)
  
  •     67% — institutionally funded
        33% — privately funded
    $2,329 — average annual scholarship

    Employees

• 306 total employees
  • 154 — faculty, 79 full-time
    
    •    19:1 student-to-faculty ratio
         33% hold doctorates or terminal degrees 
          (national community college average is about 15%)
    152 — administrative, professional and classified staff

    Campus

• Main campus, Powell
  • 124 — total acres
      59 — buildings
    

  
  

  Three off-campus centers
  • Mickelson Field Station (50 miles west of Powell)
  • Cody Center
  • Worland Center

    Programs of Study

• • 56 — transfer degrees
  • 20 — technical degrees
  • 36 — skills certificates

    Library

• • 50,349 — books
  • 261 — periodicals
  • • Growing collection of audiovisual materials
    • Access on and off campus to more than 100 online databases and almost 45,000 electronic periodicals
    • Access to holdings of libraries throughout Wyoming.

    Budget

• $30,341,609 total (2010-11 year)
  • $12,873,237 — state funding
      $4,137,438 — local funding 
                                    (Park County mill levy, motor vehicle taxes, etc.)
      $4,529,833 — tuition and fees
      $4,725,125 — auxiliary fund
                                   (bookstore, residence halls, etc.)
      $3,902,225 — federal grants/contracts
          $173,750 — misc. revenue

    Permanently Endowed Funds

• (As of Dec. 31, 2010)

  $20,462,379 total endowment
  •        $7,971,008 — NWC (managed by NWC Foundation)
         $12,491,371 — NWC Foundation
  •      nwcollegefoundation.org/

    NWC Alumni Association

• 20,675 alumni worldwide
  • Association founded in 1988
    (First two-year college alumni association in Wyoming)
    www.nwc.edu/alumni

    Economic Impact

• $17,076,931 employee payroll (Salary & benefits during 2010)
  • 5th largest employer in county
    $3,487,345 annual expenditures in goods and services in Park County (est.)
  • Total student/college operations "spending & productivity effects": $78,004,000 (Source: Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc., 2011 study of WY community colleges)

    Cultural Impact

• Over 100 public programs/events on campus each year

    Leadership

• Board of Trustees President

      Mark Westerhold, Cody
  
  

  College President

      Paul B. Prestwich, Ph.D.

* Figures based upon fall 2010 data unless noted otherwise.