Laramie County Community College EMS students stand during the program’s coining ceremony in December 2025.

As I reflect on another year at Laramie County Community College, I am struck by the many ways our students, faculty and staff continue to embrace change while remaining grounded in our mission: transforming lives through the power of inspired learning. 

Volleyball athletes, one from Turkey and one from Colorado, form lifelong bond. ne grew up on Colorado’s Front Range. The other came to Cheyenne from İzmir, Turkey. 

Two students. One path. A shared future in music. Niyla Moore and Ricky Winters are at opposite ends of the same path in LCCC’s music program.

The college’s new Artificial Intelligence program helps students prepare for a rapidly changing workforce. Would you like me to expand on this? Students in a classroom at LCCC toggle between datasets and lines of code, testing machine learning models inside Jupyter notebooks. 

LCCC’s Carole Boughton helps students find the will to succeed. Sooner or later, something goes wrong. For Carole Boughton, that reality belongs in the classroom as much as any lesson from a textbook. 

Hands-on training prepares grads for real-world scenarios. Shawn Broad wasn’t convinced he was ready for a Microsoft internship while he was a student in Laramie County Community College’s cybersecurity program. 

For Jaya Brown, it was the alternator on a 2005 Ford. Jaya, who graduated from Cheyenne South High School in 2021, was still in high school when the car started giving her trouble. 

LCCC faculty and students embrace open educational resources, or OER, for its cost-saving benefits. Costs associated with college aren’t trivial for Peyton Gire. 

APPLIED Bachelor’s degree represents mentorship coming full circle for LCCC grads. A suggestion from colleague Jennifer Ackerman set Kodi Ragsdale on a path she hadn’t planned. 

LCCC by the numbers for the 2024-2025 academic year.

The Laramie County Community College Foundation honors our donors by recognizing the individuals, corporations, foundations and organizations whose philanthropic contributions exemplify outstanding commitment to improving the quality of education for our students and community.