Wind River Tribal College facts for kids

Wind River Tribal College, also known as WRTC, is a special college in Fort Washakie, Wyoming. Its campus is located on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming. WRTC helps students who live on the Wind River Indian Reservation and in nearby towns. Most of the students at WRTC are from the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes.

How Wind River Tribal College Started

WRTC was officially created in September 1997. The Northern Arapaho Business Council, which is a governing group for the Northern Arapaho tribe, started the college. They wanted to make sure that people on the reservation had a way to get a college education close to home.

Working with Other Colleges

WRTC works with bigger universities like the University of Wyoming and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. These partnerships are important because they can make it easier for students to transfer their credits. This means students can often continue their education at a larger university after studying at WRTC.

WRTC is also a part of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). This group helps tribal colleges across the United States. They work to make education stronger for Native American and Alaska Native people. WRTC helps students who might not have other ways to go to college because they live far from big cities.

In 2013, ten students earned their teaching degrees from WRTC. This was a big achievement! It showed how well the partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh worked.

What You Can Study at WRTC

WRTC offers different two-year programs called associate degrees. These programs help students learn important skills for jobs or for continuing their education.

You can study these subjects at WRTC:

• social work
• business administration
• elementary education (learning to be a teacher)
• criminal justice

In the summer of 2015, the college also held a special camp to teach the Arapaho language.