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The team is the latest Village Aid Project, which has been providing essential services like clean water and solar energy to remote, underdeveloped communities since 2005. 

Manuelito ‘Manny’ Wheeler attended the screening of the Navajo-dubbed Star Wars: A New Hope (Sǫʼtah Anaaʼ: Siih Náhásdlįį), a project he led in 2012. The event marked the closing of the Center of Southwest Studies popular exhibit “The Return of the Force, which celebrated the many cultural, philosophical, and mythological connections between Indigeneity and the Star Wars universe.

FLC is among many community colleges and universities in Colorado providing food assistance to students at a time when food costs have spiked and more students are believed to be experiencing hunger. (Chalkbeat)

 Kate Suazo, FLC alumna, social justice advocate has been named inaugural Director of Belonging at FLC.

Now in its third year, Monitoring Environmental Microbiome program participants dive into complex computational analysis of environmental justice issues.

Fort Lewis College will play a leading role in the workforce development programming for Elevate Quantum Tech Hub, which secured $127 million in federal and state funding to develop workforce and technologies for the rapidly growing quantum industry in Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

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This year, five local businesses benefited from free marketing services through the program, which provides students and recent FLC grads with paid hands-on experiential learning.

More than 400 people attended the inaugural Summit, aimed at fostering awareness and unity around regional climate interests and building resilience to climate change.

Tribal Water Media Fellows August Mrakuzic (Anthropology, '23)and Klara Goldman (Geology, 23) have published their work on KSUT. Mrakuzic story focuses on a Denver college student . Goldman’s story explores . The fellowship is a collaboration between KSUT Public Radio, Fort Lewis College, and Rocky Mountain PBS. The Walton Family Foundation supports the project.

More than 80 graduates participated in this year's Diversity Collaborative Graduation Celebration. The Collaborative includes the Black Students Center, the El Centro de Muchos Colores, the Gender and Sexuality Center and the Native American Center.

“With a 27-year tenure of service to our College, Steve has the historical wisdom, financial acuity, political networks, and hard-earned trust of the Skyhawk community,” said Mary Rubadeau, chair of the FLC Board of Trustees, in an email to campus. “Steve will build upon our momentum as we launch the search for a permanent president.”  

Growing up, Gabby James (Biochemistry, ’19) saw few healthcare providers who looked like her. A member of the Diné Tribe, James is striving to change that for future generations. She’s one step closer thanks to a full-ride scholarship to the University of Wisconsin’s Physician’s Assistant program.

A little over a decade after taking an accidental journalism course at Fort Lewis College, Jourdan Bennett-Begaye (Athletic Training, ’13) is the editor-in-chief of ICT (formerly Indian Country Today), a digital platform reporting on the Indigenous world.

DURANGO – Local entrepreneurs and philanthropists Marc and Jane Katz are donating $10.4 million dollars to Fort Lewis College's School of Business Administration, the single largest gift in the College’s history.

To more completely understand the boarding school era, FLC’s leadership, working directly with leaders of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, advocated for --state legislation that tasked History Colorado with investigating traumas inflicted upon Native American children at the Federal Indian Boarding Schools in the State of Colorado. The Bill also charged History Colorado to investigate the deaths and potential burial sites of the students who perished while attending the school.  Today, . A link will also be available on the FLC Reconciliation website. 

To more completely understand the boarding school era and as part of Fort Lewis College's reconciliation efforts, FLC’s leadership, working directly with leaders of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, advocated for Colorado House Bill 22-1327--state legislation that tasked History Colorado with investigating traumas inflicted upon Native American children at the Federal Indian Boarding Schools in the State of Colorado and to investigate the deaths and potential burial sites of the students who perished while attending the school. The report, , was made public today. Read the community message sent by Tom Stritikus, President; Heather Shotton, Vice President for Diversity Affairs and Ernest House Jr., Trustee, sent to students, faculty, and staff.

History classes just got a little cozier on campus. Students are invited to pull up a chair and stoke their flame for studying the past at the HEARTH, also known as the History Education And Research Teaching Hub.

Fort Lewis College’s overall enrollment grew by 1.9 percent compared to last year, with dual enrollment, graduate, and transfer students driving the growth.