The annual Fort Lewis College tradition of celebrating Dr. King’s legacy will be held on Monday, January 19, 2015. The community is invited to join in the day’s free activities.

Fort Lewis College Provost Dr. Barbara Morris has announced that Dr. Paul McGurr will serve as interim dean for the FLC School of Business Administration.

Walter Dear, a friend and supporter of Fort Lewis College, has generously endowed a new scholarship with the Fort Lewis College Foundation.

Up to 100 alumni, staff, faculty, and friends of Fort Lewis College will combine their love of cycling with helping students, when the Fort Lewis College Road Scholars Team races the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge train from Durango to Silverton in the 2015 Iron Horse Bicycle Classic, on Saturday, May 23.

The 23rd annual Southwest Business Forum returns to the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College on Wednesday, January 7, 2015. The forum is free, open to everyone, and runs from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Free parking and refreshments are also available.

Chelsea Rodriguez, a decorated Skyhawk Softball player, graduates with a History major and a job coaching softball at Durango High School.

Whalen Gymnasium at Fort Lewis College was filled with graduates and their families for Winter Commencement 2014 on December 20. More than 200 FLC graduates celebrated the successful completion of their undergraduate academic careers alongside their professors and College administration.

Fort Lewis College Professor of History and Environmental Studies Andrew Gulliford is the winner of two New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. His work, entitled Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology, won the Nature/Environment category and was named the Best Arizona Book.

For more than 200 Fort Lewis College students, Winter Commencement will mark a triumphant conclusion to their undergraduate academic career. Winter Commencement takes place on Saturday, December 20, 2014, in Whalen Gym. The ceremony begins at 10 a.m.

At the end of every semester, time moves twice as fast. There are tests, final projects and, of course, finals. The tasks that need to be accomplished are overwhelming if you think of them all at once. More than anything, this is a test of survival and you should prepare accordingly.

Whenever I thought of my look in college, I imagined myself bundled up in my favorite pair of boots, jacket, stylish scarf, trendy hat, and of course my thick rimmed glasses, reading high-brow literature, studying away in a coffee shop as the leaves begin to change. It sounded straight out of a Pinterest post about pumpkin spiced lattes. After living in Durango for three years now, my dreams...

To celebrate International Education Week, StudyColorado.org created the Show Your Colors in Colorado contest. The contest invited foreign students going to school in Colorado to submit pictures of themselves at their favorite spots in the state.

The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl is a debate-style tournament that takes place across the world and challenges students to take an ethical stance on a complex case against another team. At the beginning of each school year, fifteen cases are released online and teams are formed within interested colleges. The teams then have about three months to prepare for the regional tournament, the winners...

As an athletic individual in my former high school years I was very excited to learn that I could continue playing the sports I enjoyed in college. The intramural sports offered include: racquetball, Ultimate Frisbee, badminton, outdoor/indoor soccer and volleyball, basketball, flag football and even video game tournaments!

As this is my second time in college, I feel that the years I have spent in school have indelibly taught me a few things, one of the most valuable being how to choose a major. While some students know from the time they are a small child that they’re going to own their own business or cure cancer, I was not one of those children. At five I wanted to be a garbage collector; at eight, a...