Student Stories Fort Lewis College students compete, build community at Native Youth Olympics in Alaska Fort Lewis College students competed in the Native Youth Olympics in Alaska, celebrating Indigenous tradition, athleticism, and global community.
Leadership Fort Lewis College receives full reaccreditation for 10-year term FLC earned the Higher Learning Commission’s highest level of reaccreditation, affirming its academic quality, mission-driven culture, and long-term commitment to student success.
Friends and Donors Inspired by paragliding, FLC student finds his calling as entrepreneur, wins Hawk Tank’s grand prize FLC’s annual business competition gives students and community entrepreneurs a real‑world platform to develop, refine, and pitch bold business ideas
FLC cycling hosts Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships The top collegiate athletes from around the country will head to Durango’s Purgatory Resort for the 2021 USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships October 14-17.
Grub Hub Food Pantry gets fresh New space and funding bring expanded hours and food options to students, including fresh produce from regional farmers and ranchers.
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.