The job of the board is to govern the district in accordance with its statutory obligations and represent the citizens of Fremont County and the service area in determining and demanding appropriate organizational performance.  To distinguish the board’s own unique job from that of the staff, the board will concentrate its efforts on the following:

1. Community Attitude

The board shall take into consideration community attitude regarding controversial issues and subjects relating to the college that need interpretation. 

2. Liaison with the Public

The CWC Board as a whole shall act as a liaison agent with the public or with individual citizens.

3. Public Relations

The board shall assist with the public relations of the college.

4. Written Governing Policies

The board shall develop written governing policies that, at the broadest levels, address:

a. Ends:  Organizational impacts, benefits to the community, outcomes, results, recipients, and relative worth.

b. Executive Limitations:  Constraints on authority that establish the prudent, ethical, and legal boundaries within which all activity and decisions must take place.

c. Governance Process:  Specification of how the board conceives, carries out, and monitors its own tasks.

d. Board-President Relationships:  How power is delegated and its proper use monitored; the president’s role, authority and accountability.

e. Other duties as required by law, including but not limited to authorizing bond elections and approving budget as authorized by W.S. 21-18-305.

5. Board of Review

The board, at its sole discretion, may act as a hearing board or may appoint one or more of its member trustees or a college employee or outside facilitator or hearing officer for the purpose of reviewing grievances involving the following:  termination of a continuing contract; suspension without pay of a continuing contracted employee; and non-renewal of a continuing contract.

6. Employment

It is the responsibility of the board to employ the president.

7. Annual Audit

It is the responsibility of the board to provide an annual audit of all college funds by a certified public accountant as approved by the Wyoming Community College Commission.

8. Associate and Bachelor Degree Instructional Program Approval/Termination

The board shall approve all new Associate and Bachelor Degree instructional programs.  The president shall notify the board of all Associate and Bachelor Degree instructional program terminations.   

9. Conferral of Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates

The board shall confer degrees and certificates and grant credentials and diplomas. 

10. Conferral of Professors Emeriti

The board may consider “Professor Emeritus/Emerita” status for those faculty who receive support from a minimum of two-thirds of the college employees designated as benefited faculty for more than two years and a recommendation by the president and who meet requirements as stated in college procedures.  The board shall approve and confer “Professor Emeritus/Emerita” status. 

11. Actively Advocating for Legislation

The board shall provide information and advocacy for legislative positions that serve the best interests of the college.

12. Naming College Assets

The board shall authorize names for major college facilities.  Only the board can retract a name determined by the board.  Major college facilities include buildings owned by the College that are greater than 5000 square feet, the college name itself, campuses, and outreach sites.  The president shall maintain a college procedure outlining a process for formulating recommendations to the board for naming and retracting naming of major facilities as well as determining and retracting names for minor facilities and other non-facility naming (programs, equipment, grounds, etc.).

13. Continuing and other Multi-Year Employment Contracts

The board shall approve all continuing and other multi-year employment contracts.
 

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Approved 7/16/03;
Modified 11/17/04;
Modified 12/12/07;
Modified November 15, 2017;
Modified October 15, 2019;
Modified October 20, 2021
Revised October 15, 2025