Voting just got easier, thanks to a new on-campus ballot box and voting center set up by the Political Science Department and La Plata County officials. Their collaborative effort to increase voter engagement also involves FLC students teaching local high schoolers how to register to vote.

FLC ranked fifth in Colorado in a study looking at return on investment for students, based on factors like average early career pay and student loan debt at graduation.

Lowering textbook costs for students is a priority for Reed Library and faculty, who received funding from the Colorado Department of Education to implement more free, open education resources at FLC.

Award-winning playwright Lee Blessing has been at Fort Lewis College for a week-long residency with the Theatre Department. He's best known for his work, "A Walk in the Woods," nominated for a Tony award and Pulitzer Prize.

Congrats to the students named to the Dean's List for the Fall 2019 semester! These students took at least 15 credits of gradable hours and achieved a 3.60 or higher grade point average.

To ensure FLC students have access to fresh, nutritious food, Manna staff members are on campus to help students enroll in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Local historic tribal publication The Southern Ute Drum is utilizing the expertise of Fabian Martinez (History, '18) to digitize and preserve the paper's extensive inventory of publications and photographs.

For its standout academics and affordability, FLC is ranked in the top 100 Philosophy bachelor's degrees in the U.S. by Great Value Colleges.

During halftime at a local high school basketball game, two students from the FLC Indigenous Society of Psychologists shed light on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement.

Conceptual artist Trey Duvall (Art, '09) invited his hometown community to explore absurdity and repeated tasks of doing and non-doing in his art installation "Hat On A Hat" at the FLC Art Gallery.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Joslynn Lee (Chemistry and Cellular & Molecular Biology, '06) spoke to Chemical & Engineering News about her path as a student and chemist, and her return home to teach at FLC.

Thanks to his innovative uses of technology as executive principal at Colorado Springs' Falcon Middle School, Brian Smith (Chemistry, '02) was honored as the Change Management Principal of the Year by the National Council on Digital Convergence.

Shelly Thompson (Political Science, '03) is the new Cultural Preservation Director at the Southern Ute Cultural Center and the Southern Ute Museum in Ignacio, Colorado, working to spread culture and share the work of the SUCC with the Ute community.

The only extinct giant wolf from the ice ages ever found in Colorado was recently discovered at a Mammoth dig site. Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Jared Beeton documented and published this and other findings in the Annals of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Crescent-shaped stone tools were used by people throughout far western North America at the end of the last ice age. Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jesse Tune and Anthropology student Jon Fox published research on the only artifact of this type that has ever been found on the Colorado Plateau.