As a result of the pandemic, you may have experienced unexpected or increased costs for housing, food, childcare, technology, healthcare, or other essential needs. FLC can help you recover those costs. 

FLC classrooms are evolving to encompass even more Indigenous perspectives, thanks to a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation. Visiting Assistant Professors Davina Two Bears and Brian Twenter have both joined the Native American & Indigenous Studies Department as this year's Mellon Scholars.

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, or AACSB International, announced that Fort Lewis College has extended its business accreditation, an accomplishment that has been achieved by only 5% of the world’s schools offering business degrees at the bachelor’s level or higher.

Illustrator Michaela Goade (Art, '14) became the first Native American to win the prestigious Randolph Caldecott Medal for best children’s picture story, cited for “We Are Water Protectors,” a celebration of nature and condemnation of the “black snake” Dakota Access Pipeline.

Professor of Philosophy and Gender & Sexuality Studies Sarah Roberts-Cady's new book on political philosopher John Rawls is one of the most popular philosophy titles published in 2020.

Behind the 700-foot wall of Glen Canyon Dam is not only a massive span of placid water but hundreds of feet of captured Colorado River sediment. As Assistant Professor of Geosciences Alan Kasprak has researched, the river corridor below the dam through Grand Canyon is poised for an ecological transformation.

Professor of Philosophy Justin McBrayer and Egan Wynne (Philosophy, '20) published a review of J.L. Schellenberg's Progressive Atheism in the journal Philosophy of Religion. In their review, they argue, against Schellenberg, that moral evolution opens the door to a host of skeptical challenges about our ability to determine whether or not God exists.

Rural areas, like the Four Corners, that suffer from a shortage of mental health professionals. The University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work and FLC created one solution: the Four Corners Master of Social Work Program.

Because the FLC Teacher Education Department's educator training focuses on early literacy and how to teach youth to read, it is one of only two programs in Colorado with full approval for all majors from the state's reauthorization program.

Shaina A. Nez’s (English, '14) essay “Diné Abecedarian,” published in the Massachusetts Review, enlightens the alphabetic sequence of the Diné language in a literary form. “Each letter encompasses a story and form that evolves using creative non-fiction and certain oral and creational stories," she said. 

Multimedia artist Venaya Yazzie's (English Communication, '00) latest exhibit of photos and poetry pays homage to her maternal grandmother, who died last year, and her female lineage of creators and artists.

Aside from its potential to reduce the harmful effects of climate change on communities across the world, Heidi Steltzer, professor of Environment & Sustainability and Biology, said the United States' re-entry into the Paris Agreement could also mean good things for the future of snow in Colorado.

The Equity Transfer Initiative awards up to $27,500 to advance transfer pathways between San Juan College and FLC and increase transfer and completion for underrepresented student populations.

Launched in the early 2000s, the Colorado State Library’s Historic Newspapers Collection has been slowly adding historic newspapers from across the state to its anthology, including publications from FLC as far back as 1896. 

Born and raised on the Navajo Nation in Round Rock, Arizona, Faith Roessel lived the disparities of the education system as a Native student and has since focused her life’s work on changing the Native American education experience.