ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ cycling hosts Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships The top collegiate athletes from around the country will head to Durango’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’s 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.
Sixth World Solutions 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.
Alumnus partners with running company Fort Lewis College alumnus and Indigenous ultrarunner Christian Gering (Environmental Studies, ‘15) is on the design of their new “American Southwest Collection.”
Fall Blaze On September 25, rubber meets the road (and trails) with the annual Durango Fall Blaze, a . In addition to the classic road offerings, this year's event has broadened to include mountain bikers and gravel cyclists of all abilities.
Alumna Andra Cirbo 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.
First-year students flock to ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ 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.
ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ launches River Studies & Leadership Certificate program This fall, ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ 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.
Lazo-focused: ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ 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 ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµâ€™s 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.
Alumni farmers 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.
Ethics award for Teacher Education faculty The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program at UCCS College of Business announced Jill Choate, associate professor of Teacher Education, as a .
Native American tuition for Colorado A is attracting Native American students, whose ancestors were forcibly relocated from their homelands, to Colorado public colleges and universities.