Margaret Tanner (Accounting, '82), associate provost and director of graduate studies at the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith, received the KPMG Mentoring Award from the American Accounting Association.

A collaborative presentation created by the FLC librarians and COMP instructors, titled "Mind the Gap: Harmonizing composition instruction with information literacy outcomes through assessment of annotated bibliographies" won the People's Choice Award at the 2016 Library Assessment Conference in Arlington, Virginia.

FLC students swept the UCCS Business Ethics Case Competition: Senior Business Administration major Connor Caffery and Senior Political Science and Business Administration major Lauren Smith won first place, followed by Junior Business Administration major Drew Faloon and Sophomore Accounting major Trevor Hunt in second place.

FLC's newest master's degree, an M.A. in Education: Teacher Licensure, will start accepting applications in December 2016.