Friends and Donors Fort Lewis College women鈥檚 golf team receives record-setting boost olumbine Classic Duet Tournament and Dalton Ranch community rally to support scholarships and team excellence
News Briefs SOIL strengthens partnership with FLC through student internships, class projects SOIL deepened its collaboration with Fort Lewis College this summer by hosting two interns from FLC’s Environment and Sustainability Department. Students Raine Lohr and Brooke Lant contributed to projects ranging from planting plants for educational gardens and aquaponics maintenance to pest management, research, and community outreach. Lant also completed a research project...
Friends and Donors Industry partnerships fuel solar energy work on the Navajo Nation Students, alumni, and faculty are working alongside industry partners AES and Marathon Petroleum to bring solar energy to homes on the Navajo Nation. The Village Aid Project Solar Initiative blends student-led design with culturally grounded engagement, advancing energy justice and long-term infrastructure solutions.
Board of Trustees and Foundation designate $1M for housing program as part of multipronged approach to housing crisis The Fort Lewis College Board of Trustees and the Fort Lewis College Foundation Board of Directors each proposed $500,000 investments for a down payment assistance program for faculty and staff, an initial step in the College’s long-term commitment to increase access to affordable housing for students and employees.
FLC cycling hosts Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships The top collegiate athletes from around the country will head to 91桃色’s Purgatory Resort for the 2021 USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships October 14-17.
Grub Hub Food Pantry gets fresh New space and funding bring expanded hours and food options to students, including fresh produce from regional farmers and ranchers.
Fort Lewis College鈥檚 students, faculty, and campus spotlighted in new TV series Fort Lewis College is featured in season one of The College Tour, a new IMDb TV series that gives viewers a virtual look into campus student organizations, outdoor spaces, science and art classrooms, athletic fields, and more.
Homesick at college 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.
Lazo-focused: FLC welcomes (back) new director of Alumni Engagement 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 change of heart: unjust pictures, narrative removed from FLC鈥檚 iconic Clocktower 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.
FLC Marketing & Communications team brings home more UCDA awards From ensuring Skyler the Skyhawk looks fit to spicing up the FLC website and all the press releases and TV commercials between, the FLC Marketing & Communications team stays busy. This year at the 2021 UCDA Design Awards, the MarComm design team fetched four coveted distinctions.
When your student leaves for college Whether you were counting down the days or biting your nails in dread, it impacts a family when your child leaves for college—when they become less a “child” and more of a “student.” This changes the day-to-day of your life; it changes the relationships between family members still living together; it may even change the way you see yourself.
Alumna and former student body president returns to FLC as a trustee Julie (Levy) Duvall (Political Science, ’05), the Board of Trustees' newest member, is ready to reconnect with campus and engage students, staff, and faculty in building the future of Fort Lewis College.