‘Let's Rock It!'
Sep 18, 2026 · 20 min · 9 segments
Jackson Hole’s only community college gets its own building after 50 years bouncing from kitchen to kitchen. Despite some ranches selling off, one near Grand Teton National Park is among many that…
Sep 18, 2026 · 20 min · 9 segments
Jackson Hole’s only community college gets its own building after 50 years bouncing from kitchen to kitchen. Despite some ranches selling off, one near Grand Teton National Park is among many that…
Central Wyoming College is putting the finishing touches on its first permanent home in Jackson.
It's just south of town, next to the high school, and it puts an end to bouncing around other rented spots as the community college did for almost 50 years with its nursing and culinary schools.
Now, twice as many students, mostly from low-income families, can learn the region's essential traits.
KHOL's Evna Robinson-Johnson reports from the soon-to-be art-filled atrium.
Whenever Wyoming builds a building, they reserve a portion of cost to support public art.
So that'll help warm the space.
Do
you know what it's going to be yet? A whale.
It's going to be a whale.
It's a whale.
Made out of tumbleweeds.
Made out of tumbleweeds.
And movable parts, apparently.
As electricians line wires through the first CWC Jackson campus, President Brad Tindall is eager to prove the doubters wrong.
Many people never thought next month's campus opening would happen.
The people of Jackson and Teton County have just said, we love education.
And every time there's been like a naysayer, we just push through.
It includes an industrial-sized kitchen, an observation base with one-way glass that will allow instructors to watch simulated emergency rooms.
I feel like this project, in a way, helped bridge some of these notions that we have about us and them and parts of the state.
It cost about $30 million to build, including buying land from the Lockhart ranching family.
Much of that came from public dollars following the first allocation of taxes back in 2017.
About half came from federal grants for healthcare-related projects.
Culinary student-turned-professor Grace Lutz says the permanent space will change how the community accesses higher education.
We've floated from kitchen to kitchen.
Central Wyoming College is putting the finishing touches on its first permanent home in Jackson.
It's just south of town, next to the high school, and it puts an end to bouncing around other rented spots as the community college did for almost 50 years with its nursing and culinary schools.
Now, twice as many students, mostly from low-income families, can learn the region's essential traits.
KHOL's Evna Robinson-Johnson reports from the soon-to-be art-filled atrium.
Whenever Wyoming builds a building, they reserve a portion of cost to support public art.
So that'll help warm the space.
Do
you know what it's going to be yet? A whale.
It's going to be a whale.
It's a whale.
Made out of tumbleweeds.
Made out of tumbleweeds.
And movable parts, apparently.
As electricians line wires through the first CWC Jackson campus, President Brad Tindall is eager to prove the doubters wrong.
Many people never thought next month's campus opening would happen.
The people of Jackson and Teton County have just said, we love education.
And every time there's been like a naysayer, we just push through.
It includes an industrial-sized kitchen, an observation base with one-way glass that will allow instructors to watch simulated emergency rooms.
I feel like this project, in a way, helped bridge some of these notions that we have about us and them and parts of the state.
It cost about $30 million to build, including buying land from the Lockhart ranching family.
Much of that came from public dollars following the first allocation of taxes back in 2017.
About half came from federal grants for healthcare-related projects.
Culinary student-turned-professor Grace Lutz says the permanent space will change how the community accesses higher education.
We've floated from kitchen to kitchen.
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