FLC was named to the 2019–2020 list of Top 200 Colleges for Indigenous Students by Winds of Change, the journal of the American Indian Science & Engineering Society.

Renowned ragtime pianist Adam Swanson (Music, '14) was profiled by The Syncopated Times for his remarkably accomplished career, including a performance at Carnegie Hall, a solo program at the Kennedy Center, a featured headliner at major jazz and ragtime festivals, and the only four-time winner of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest.

Four students in the new student group Indigenous Society of Psychologists and a Psychology faculty member attended the Society of Indian Psychologists national retreat and conference in June at Utah State University.

Brandon Castle (Anthropology, '19), a tour guide at the Totem Heritage Center, in Ketchikan, Alaska, is the 2019 recipient of the $5,000 Patricia Roppel Scholarship from the Tongass Historical Society.