The Art Gallery at FLC features Janet Diaz Muro's Hay Comida en la Casa exhibition. Diaz is a first-generation Mexican-American Chicana artist who addresses migration, immigration, labor rights, identity, and social injustice.

The Resolution on Culture on Shared Governance, drafted by the FLC Board of Trustees, is the latest milestone for Fort Lewis College in its commitment to fostering campus belonging.

FLC committed to the housing security of its faculty and staff by launching the Employee Mortgage Assistance Program, or EMAP.

Tune in to hear FLC stories from Justin McBrayer, professor of Philosophy and associate dean.

Bringing a mountaineer’s approach to our flat land lives

In 2022, FLC’s premier Native American & Indigenous Studies program received a critical academic boost. Helped in part by a generous gift from the Mellon Foundation, FLC hired four new NAIS faculty. This expansion advances the institution’s commitment to reconciliation with its past as a federal Indian boarding school by building a community of Indigenous...

FLC Athletics announced the addition of indoor track and field for the 2023-24 season. Men's and women's indoor track and field will bring the department's total to 16 programs offered at the NCAA Division II level. 

Amid a nationwide effort to preserve Indigenous languages, FLC has developed a new partnership with the Southern Ute Indian Tribe to train bilingual teachers in instructing a new generation of Ute-language speakers.

Despite the biggest winter storm in four years, FLC community members gathered to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with an informal meet-and-greet hosted by the Black Student Union.

At her post deep in the Rocky Mountains, Kelli Lewis (Environmental Studies, ‘15), a ranger for Colorado Parks & Wildlife, patrols Eleven Mile State Park on a pair of ice skates. With a patrol area of 3,400 acres, Lewis dashes across frozen reservoirs to greet anglers and campers alike. 

FLC men's basketball player Akuel Kot was named to the Clarence Bevo Francis Award "Top 100 small college basketball players to watch list." Kot recently broke the single-game scoring record for the FLC men's basketball team and is currently ranked third in Division II scoring.

Venaya Yazzie (English, ‘2000), a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is the host of the Native Voices radio show on San Juan College’s KSJE-FM. Yazzie, an artist herself, interviews Indigenous artists and unpacks the issues those professionals face.

In an episode of Filling Seats: The State of Enrollment Marketing in Higher Ed, Lindsay Nyquist, director of Marketing & Communications, explained her enrollment marketing strategy. Nyquist discussed, among other things, how FLC conveys authentic student voices through its social content and enrollment messaging.

Joshua Emerson (Economics, ‘19) joins the growing number of Indigenous comedians touring nationally. Emerson’s stand-up group and production company, DeadRoom, is named after the terrifying silence some comics face when climbing on stage. It is one of the only Indigenous comedy showcases in the world.

As the American Southwest experiences its worst drought in 1,000 years, local farmers and participants in the Farmer-in-Training program at the Old Fort at Hesperus are adapting their agricultural practices. By choosing water-wise crops, these new farmers are getting creative to make their agronomy aspirations viable in a hotter,...