President Begaye and FLC President Tom Stritikus signed an agreement that provides $2,500 per student, per term. The agreement also establishes a partnership between FLC and the Office of Navajo Nation Scholarship and Financial Assistance (ONNSFA), which will distribute and monitor the funds.

In the last quarter of 2018, 11 faculty and staff members received grants for their programs and departments, ranging in size from $1,978 to $304,958.

A grant from the University of Alaska's BLaST (Biomedical Learning & Student Training) program means 25 students training for biomedical research careers and their faculty mentors will be doing hands-on undergraduate research for the spring semester.

Matthew Welbourn (Business Administration, '17) is a contestant on NBC's new athletic competition TV series "The Titan Games," hosted by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

A paper by Professor of Geosciences David Gonzales and Geology major Otto Lang, "A Comparison of Nd, Sr, and Hf Isotopic Signatures for Late Cretaceous and Pliocene Plutonic Rocks in the Rico Mountains, Colorado: Insight into Magmatic Sources at 68 and 4 Ma," was published in The Professional Geologist, the journal of the American Institute of Professional Geologists.

The Association for Fire Ecology certified Professor of Biology Julie Korb as an AFE Senior Wildland Fire Ecologist for her education, training, and experience.

Irene Barry (English, '05) has published Surviving a Rural High School Shooting, based on her experiences as an on-duty teacher at Aztec High School, in New Mexico, during a school shooting in December 2017.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Michael Dichio's book The US Supreme Court and the Centralization of Federal Authority was released by the SUNY Press.

FLC was named to the 2018–2019 list of "Top 200 Colleges for Indigenous Students" by Winds of Change, the journal of the American Indian Science & Engineering Society.

Georgie Pongyesva (History, '16), a member of the Hopi Tribe, was interviewed by the Grand Canyon Trust about the role of Native Americans at the national park as it celebrates its centennial.

In the last quarter of 2018, 11 faculty and staff members received grants for their programs and departments, ranging in size from $1,978 to $304,958.

My first few months at Fort Lewis College have been a whirlwind, but the good kind of whirlwind. Thanks for welcoming me and my family to FLC. Enjoy your break and we’ll see you in 2019.

Jordan Meinster (Economics, ’06) has grown a thriving business that is now blossoming into a successful franchise spreading across the country. And the roots of that business reach back to the Fort Lewis College campus.

Today it’s paramount for businesses to understand how to attract, convert, and retain customers online. The new Digital Marketing Certificate program provides the training ncessary to lead businesses through this challenging territory. 

In the middle of the morning on June 1, 2018, a wildfire broke out about 10 miles north of Durango, with a single plume clearly visible from the Fort Lewis College campus.