Getting started at college is an enormous adjustment for students. It’s typical to feel lonely, nervous, scared, and sad right alongside feeling thrilled, hopeful, free, and empowered. 

This summer, Sixth World Solutions, a grassroots consulting firm on the Navajo Nation, provided Indigenous Fort Lewis College students with agricultural internships. Funded by the Native American Agriculture Fund, these internships focused on teaching students regenerative agricultural practices that will be brought back to their home communities.

Fort Lewis College alumnus and Indigenous ultrarunner Christian Gering (Environmental Studies, ‘15) is collaborating with running outfitter Janji on the design of their new “American Southwest Collection.”

On September 25, rubber meets the road (and trails) with the annual Durango Fall Blaze, a fundraiser supporting the Fort Lewis College cycling team. In addition to the classic road offerings, this year's event has broadened to include mountain bikers and gravel cyclists of all abilities.

Since 2004, Andra Cirbo (Business Administration-Marketing, ‘92), has built an extensive career working at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility. Now a Correctional Support Trades Supervisor III Captain, Cirbo manages massive kitchens in two correctional facilities that provide meals for offenders and vocational training for their re-entry.

This year’s incoming class is the largest group of first-years Fort Lewis College has seen since 2004, with 960 new students joining campus.

This fall, FLC students who are passionate about rivers will have the opportunity to dive into the history, science, and management behind one of the planet’s most important systems. 

Alumnus Ryan Lazo (Anthropology and Environmental Studies, ’13) is thrilled to be back at Fort Lewis College and in a sphere of collaboration with his peers while also reconnecting with faculty who inspired his journey as a student.

A diverse crowd of nearly 1,000 people congregated under a blue sky to hear from tribal elders, campus leaders, and Native American students in a ceremony held at the Clocktower to remove three history panels that inaccurately depicted the Federal Indian Boarding School era.

James Plate (Business Administration, '14) and Max Fields (Environmental Studies, '15) didn't expect to pursue careers as farmers and ranchers, but thanks in part to their education at Fort Lewis College—and their awesomely apt names—they're finding wild success in the local agriculture industry.

The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program at UCCS College of Business announced Jill Choate, associate professor of Teacher Education, as a 2021-22 Ethics Champion.

A new in-state tuition law is attracting Native American students, whose ancestors were forcibly relocated from their homelands, to Colorado public colleges and universities.

To centralize services and improve the shopper experience, the Grub Hub Food Pantry is hoping to receive federal funding to revamp the pantry's space in the Student Union.

Cyclists know how to endure some good suffering and one of the toughest races may be a new quasi-informal competition in Colorado. The LeadBoat Challenge, a linkage of two well-known bike races, celebrated Sarah Sturm (Art, '12) and Payson McElveen (Exercise Science, ’16) with podium finishes last weekend.

Professor of Art & Design Amy Wendland received a merit award for Sphinx Moon, a colored pencil and watercolor piece she created around a discarded sample from the Fort Lewis College Herbarium. Wendland's artwork was a part of the Bigleaf Magnolia Art and Garden Festival "Flower Encounters" botanical art exhibit and contest.