Campus & Community FLC graduates urged to build bridges, use words with purpose during Fall 2025 Commencement During the ceremony at Whalen Gymnasium, graduates were encouraged to use language, knowledge and empathy to create connection and understanding.
Student Stories Student-created public art brings new life to Theatre Building lobby Collaborative public artwork brings new life to an underused campus space through cross-department partnership
Skyhawk Spotlight April’s Garden owner, FLC alumna, continues a legacy of community care Fort Lewis College alumna Julia Foran carries forward decades of tradition while bringing new creativity and connection to April's Garden.
Fort Lewis College’s students, faculty, and campus spotlighted in new TV series Fort Lewis College is featured in season one of The College Tour, a new IMDb TV series that gives viewers a virtual look into campus student organizations, outdoor spaces, science and art classrooms, athletic fields, and more.
Homesick at college Getting started at college is an enormous adjustment for students. It’s typical to feel lonely, nervous, scared, and sad right alongside feeling thrilled, hopeful, free, and empowered.
Lazo-focused: FLC welcomes (back) new director of Alumni Engagement Alumnus Ryan Lazo (Anthropology and Environmental Studies, ’13) is thrilled to be back at Fort Lewis College and in a sphere of collaboration with his peers while also reconnecting with faculty who inspired his journey as a student.
A change of heart: unjust pictures, narrative removed from FLC’s iconic Clocktower A diverse crowd of nearly 1,000 people congregated under a blue sky to hear from tribal elders, campus leaders, and Native American students in a ceremony held at the Clocktower to remove three history panels that inaccurately depicted the Federal Indian Boarding School era.
FLC Marketing & Communications team brings home more UCDA awards From ensuring Skyler the Skyhawk looks fit to spicing up the FLC website and all the press releases and TV commercials between, the FLC Marketing & Communications team stays busy. This year at the 2021 UCDA Design Awards, the MarComm design team fetched four coveted distinctions.
When your student leaves for college Whether you were counting down the days or biting your nails in dread, it impacts a family when your child leaves for college—when they become less a “child” and more of a “student.” This changes the day-to-day of your life; it changes the relationships between family members still living together; it may even change the way you see yourself.
Alumna and former student body president returns to FLC as a trustee Julie (Levy) Duvall (Political Science, ’05), the Board of Trustees' newest member, is ready to reconnect with campus and engage students, staff, and faculty in building the future of Fort Lewis College.
Fort Lewis College to host ACE Fellow Fort Lewis College President Tom Stritikus announced today that Eleanor Feingold, executive associate dean of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, will spend the fall semester on campus as a visiting American Council on Education Fellow.
A backstage pass to real-world theatre There’s no business like the stage business, and Fort Lewis College students have access to it all, thanks to FLC’s thriving Theatre Department and the annual Durango PlayFest.
New VP of Advancement is off to the races Melissa Mount joins Fort Lewis College with years of experience connecting philanthropists to meaningful causes. She's eager to help accelerate the success of the College and FLC students.