Colorado Northwestern Community College

Colorado Northwestern
Where education meets outdoor adventure…

What is a Student Ambassador? A Student Ambassador is a dependable, dynamic, and outgoing individual who serves as the face of CNCC for potential and new students. 3 Student Ambassadors serve on the Craig Campus and 7 serve on the Rangely Campus. Student Ambassadors work 40 hours each semester. Student Ambassadors work closely with the Recruiting and Admissions department along with the Student Life and Activities Department. The ambassadors assist in recruiting new students through campus tours and some outreach (mail, phone calls, and recruiting events). Additionally, the ambassador team serves as Orientation Leaders for our New Student Orientation as well as assist in designing and organizing the orientation experience that will focus on teaching incoming students “The Spartan Way”. Learn more about being a Student Ambassador,

Meet your Student Ambassadors

What is a Resident Assistant? A Resident Assistant (RA) is a student staff member of Colorado Northwestern who oversees a floor in 1 of our 3 residence halls. RA’s are responsible for building a community within their assigned residents, and enhance the overall experience of the students living on campus. These student staff members are the initial contact in the residence halls to help address any student concern or issues. Our goal is to have Resident Assistants make a happy, healthy, and a successful living space for our residence halls at CNCC. Learn more about being a Resident Assistant,

What is Student Government? The Student Government Association (SGA) is an organization that provides opportunities to grow student’s leadership skills, enhance the college student body’s life, and develop and understanding of democratic government. The SGA is composed of students elected by their peers to represent the voice, and the interests of the student body through a variety of activities, and by building relationships with the local and school community. Learn more about being an elected leader of Student Government, click here.

Students interested in being a part of Student Leadership can pick up application from the Campus Life office front desk in Weiss or download one here.

• Application
• Reference Forms
• Faculty Reference Form

Nursing (AAS)

Welcome to Nursing at CNCC

At CNCC, we believe that nursing is both an art and science. Becoming a nurse demands an interest and aptitude for science, well developed critical thinking and technical skills, and the ability to provide human comfort and kindness. Our mission is to provide a high quality education that prepares graduates to become competent nursing professionals who deliver the full spectrum of nursing care to diverse populations in an ever-changing healthcare environment. One aspect that truly sets the CNCC Nursing Program apart is our commitment to customer service and student advising. In addition, the applicant pool from which we admit students is relatively low compared to other nursing programs. If you meet all the requirements for admission, chances are good you’ll be accepted right away. As a vital part of CNCC’s Craig Campus, the Nursing program offers an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree. Graduates are eligible to take the National Council of State Board of Nursing Licensure Examination (NCLEX-RN) to become licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse (RN). CNCC also offers an affiliated Nurse Aide course. Following completion of the four credit classroom / lab and concurrent one credit clinical courses, students become eligible to take a Nurse Aide Certification Exam to become a Certified Nurse Aide (CNA).

About the Agriculture Program Degrees at CNCC

CNCC sits in the heart of rural agriculture and western culture, and with the agriculture and equine program, we try and utilize aspects of this environment in the classroom. Here, you can choose to between 2 different agriculture related degrees, and 3 equine degrees. The agriculture degrees include: associate of science in agriculture business or an associate of science in animal science. Both of these degrees are fully transferable to Colorado State University, and have common transferability to land grant institutions where these degrees could transfer to the bachelor’s level. The equine degrees include: associate of science in equine science, associate of applied science in equine training and management, or associate of applied science in equine studies and management. The agriculture program also offers a certificate in agriculture science that covers general introductory level agriculture courses.

Explore what each of our degrees have to offer and how they can propel your future!

Exciting Agriculture Program Highlights

• We have a low instructor to student ratio – we often have 5-10 students in majority of the classes. There are a few that may have a little more, but it is only 1 or 2 classes of all the program classes you would take.
• Our instructors are the BEST! They put in countless hours of their time to work with students on their coursework. This could be at the barn, or in the classroom. They truly want to see everyone succeed, and a student’s success is really in their own hands. Our instructors will help turn their goals into reality.
• You can bring your horse to college with you! Even if you do not use your personal horse in a class, you can still bring it and house it at the same facility as where we offer our equine classes.

Our instructors strive to have hands-on real world application brought into the classroom. This includes projects and assignments that come from real life examples and situations, to working with other programs at the college to create a well rounded product, or even as simple as having live animal projects that integrate coursework.