Molding minds, large and small The Clay family’s connections to FLC spans three generations, and a new fund will keep that legacy going. The James and Cheryl Clay Fund will benefit students with day-care expenses at the on-campus Campbell Child & Family Center.
New trustees join the board The Colorado Governor’s Office announced three appointments to the Board of Trustees for Fort Lewis College.
Outdoor Pursuits: 40 years of getting out there When Professor Emeritus Dolph Kuss first arrived in Durango in 1953, he says he was "one of the few people other than cattle people who'd ever go into what is now the Weminuche Wilderness Area. I'd come back and people would ask me, 'What did it look like up there?'" Kuss says.
Summit Project aims high for FLC As recruiting students becomes increasingly competitive, Fort Lewis College is looking to position itself around its strongest and most in-demand programs. To achieve that shift, a new program is organizing efforts to highlight FLC’s academic strengths.
CCH celebrates two decades as region鈥檚 cultural nexus The Community Concert Hall was borne of a disaster that ended up a blessing for the Four Corners’ cultural and educational communities. On January 19, 1993, at 5:35 a.m. -- two and a half hours before the day’s first classes were to start – FLC’s Fine Arts Building caved in under the weight of an unusual and extended series of January snowfalls.
Elizabeth Bahe selected as new director of the FLC Native American Center and Diversity Collaborative She is replacing retiring Native American Center Director Yvonne Bilinski. She’ll also oversee the College’s Diversity Collaborative, which includes the Native American Center, El Centro de Muchos Colores, and the Office of Diversity Programming.
Brandon Castle Sophomore Anthropology major Brandon Castle secured two prestigious internships in his field this summer: museum attendant and tour guide at the Totem Heritage Museum in his hometown of Ketchikan, Alaska, and the Martin-Mullins North American Anthropology Collections internship at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History.
Rachel Landis Rachel Landis, coordinator of the Environmental Center, was recently elected to the , representing District 3, the City of Durango.
Congratulations to our entrepreneurial winners! I want to wish Michael and Daniel Martin, the winners of the 2017 Fort Lewis College Hawk Tank Business Plan Competition, the best of luck as they strike out on their winning business idea: Nitrum Dynamic Paint.
FLC entrepreneurs using paint as a vehicle for good “We want to dominate the paint industry. [Nitrum Dynamic Paint] is eco-friendly, we’re helping the environment, and we’re helping people at the individual level.”