Chambers establish student support fund at Casper College

Bill and Jan Chambers recently established the Chambers Student Support Fund endowment.

The gift fund will support students who are homeless or were in foster care. Recipients will be selected by the director of the Successful Transition and Academic Retention program at Casper College. “We had not even heard of the STAR program until attending a Casper College Foundation dinner highlighting it,” said Bill. “This just seemed to be a program we would like to support,” he added.

The STAR program provides students with academic coaching, financial aid assistance, year-round on-campus housing, professional and personal development, and other services needed to help each student complete college degrees.

To qualify for the STAR program, students must have been registered in the Natrona County School District within the last five years, qualify for a Pell Grant, and not have already earned an associate degree. Students must also be homeless, aged out of foster care, or first-generation to attend college.

Bill began his career as an auto mechanic instructor at Casper College in 1963, then taught in the mining technology program in the early 1970s. “From 1963 to 1996, I was involved in a variety of trades-related programs with a stint as a division chair thrown in,” he noted. Jan was a women’s physical education instructor at the college, where she started with an emphasis on modern dance and other types of PE classes starting in the mid 60s.

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