In the News Fort Lewis College to create humanities lab with $1.35 million grant Fort Lewis College has announced plans to build a humanities lab in the Center of Southwest Studies using a $1.35 million grant from the Mellon Foundation.
In the News A Health Crisis Sent Her to the ICU and Straight Into Nursing School in Her Hometown Kari Sutherland woke up one morning as an undergraduate at Fort Lewis College and couldn’t breathe. The experience prompted her to change her major to nursing. Sutherland just wrapped up her first year of nursing classes as a member of the inaugural cohort of the CU Anschutz Nursing Fort Lewis College Collaborative. The program lets students in rural...
In the News Fort Lewis College graduates embark on a new journey Sterlin Harjo of ‘Reservation Dogs’ fame delivers keynote commencement address
Alumna Jamie Matthews receives pardon from Governor Polis After struggling with drug addiction and serving time in jail, Jamie Matthews (Accounting, '15) enrolled back in school and turned her life around. She was one of four people to receive pardons from Governor Polis in December.
Student video feature story on a local baker aired on Rocky Mountain PBS Callie Morris (Journalism & Multimedia Studies, '19) produced a video feature story on a local baker as part of a student project with Rocky Mountain PBS. The segment aired on Arts District and can be viewed online.
Shirena Trujillo Long profiled in Durango Herald Shirena Trujillo Long (Spanish and English, '00), longstanding student mentor and program coordinator of El Centro de Muchos Colores for 15 years, was profiled in the Durango Herald.
SOBA hosts Southwest Economic Summit The School of Business Administration and partners held the annual Southwest Economic Summit on campus last week, where economists forecasted the trends expected for Colorado and the Southwest in 2020.