FLC junior Savilia Blunk, Cole Paton (Business Administration, '19), and Sofia Gomez Villafañe (Exercise Science, '16) finished in top places in the Pan American Continental Championships in Salinas, Puerto Rico, celebrating this thrilling accomplishment after a difficult year for sports as a whole.

Addressing concern that the proposed increase to the Durango lodgers tax would make the city less appealing to tourists, Wade Litt, assistant professor of Economics, says other cities that introduced similar increases did not see substantial declines in tourism. In an interview with The Durango Herald, Litt said, "Given that we're already below the Colorado averages...it’s not...

Fort Lewis College hopes to open "rural connectivity centers" in Colorado and on the Navajo Nation, with the goal of driving better engagement in distance learning and reducing barriers for rural students. FLC received a $950,060 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development program to facilitate this project.

Exercise Physiology students paired with Absolute Physical Therapy to conduct a study measuring the effects of dry needling of the tibialis posterior muscle, which is one of the main controls for the arch of the foot. This area of research is not well developed so this was a unique opportunity for FLC students.