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Western Nevada Community College

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School Notes:

• Western Nevada Community College is a comprehensive community college which serves more than 6,000 students each semester within an 18,000-square-mile service area. One of four community colleges within the Nevada System of Higher Education, it is accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and of Colleges and Universities.
• WNCC reaches out to its urban and rural communities with campuses in Carson City, Fallon and Minden/Gardnerville as well as instructional centers in Dayton, Fernley, Hawthorne, Lake Tahoe, Lovelock, Smith Valley, and Yerington. Distance education courses, including interactive video and Internet classes, allow even those in remote locations ready access to higher education.
• The college offers some 50 academic degrees and certificates in areas as diverse as engineering and construction technology, nursing, musical theatre, golf facilities management, geographic information systems, criminal justice and graphic design. Students may also complete up to two years of many baccalaureate degree programs, such as teacher preparation, for transfer to a university.
• At present, WNCC continues to expand, providing new facilities, services and opportunities. Construction is nearing completion on the 35,000-square-foot Joe Dini Jr. Library and Student Center. The college's first free-standing library building will have student study rooms, a video presentation room for satellite downlinks, and a hands-on computer teaching room. One floor will be dedicated entirely to student activities. The Jack C. Davis Observatory, which is being built entirely with private donations, will also be completed this spring. The 2,800-square-foot observatory will house three telescopes, including two 16-inch and one 10-inch reflecting telescope.
• WNCC's main campus, located in the Silver State's capital, offers students an interesting blend of environments: the comfortable pace of a small city combined with the political bustle of state government. The Carson City campus is also close to some of the best scenery and outdoor recreation in the West. The campus rests on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the spectacular beauty of Lake Tahoe is only 12 miles away.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Veteran officer promoted to captain (The Record-Courier)
  posted on November 9, 2009 at 02:19:49 pm
  Veteran officer promoted to captain by Sheila Gardner sgardner@recordcourier.com For Douglas County Sheriff's Capt. Dan Britton, the past 26 years in law enforcement have gone by in an instant. Britton, 47, recently was promoted to captain, assigned to the investigations division where he has served the majority of his career. "I started here when I was 21 years old ...
• Jack Davis, educator and boxing official, dies at 83 (Reno Gazette-Journal)
  posted on October 28, 2009 at 10:59:49 pm
  James (Jack) C. Davis, a Nevada educator and a former chairman of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, died Saturday of complications from pneumonia at age 83.
• Jack C. Davis: First president of Western Nevada Community College dies (Nevada Appeal)
  posted on October 28, 2009 at 07:38:10 pm
  Jack C. Davis, the first president of Western Nevada College, died of complications from pneumonia Saturday night.Davis, for whom the observatory at WNC is named after, was 83.
• Former Carson City dancer, Karau dies (Nevada Appeal)
  posted on October 1, 2009 at 05:35:26 pm
  Alicia Karau, who performed in the Western Nevada College's 2002 production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," died Tuesday evening following a long battle with cancer.
• College offers summer Driver Education courses (Dayton Courier)
  posted on May 28, 2009 at 06:07:05 am
  Western Nevada College is offering summer driver education sessions for teens age 15 and older in Carson City.

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