The Fort Report: Connecting Fort Lewis College

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Have you watched The College Tour episode featuring FLC yet? The Amazon Prime show is streaming now, and next month you might see this commercial air during March Madness!

School of Business Administration earns prestigious reaccreditation

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business has extended Fort Lewis College's business accreditation, an accomplishment that has been achieved by only 5% of the world’s schools offering business degrees at the bachelor’s level or higher.

Visiting scholars bring Indigenous perspective

FLC classrooms now include even more Indigenous perspectives, thanks to a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation. Visiting assistant professors Davina Two Bears and Brian Twenter have both joined the Native American & Indigenous Studies Department as this year's Mellon Scholars.

The art of dabbling

When Hayley Kirkman (Art, ‘17) isn’t developing Durango’s thriving arts and culture scene as executive director of the Durango Creative District, she's busy sculpting monsters for the new Meow Wolf Denver exhibit, a project she’s collaborating on with Lexis Loeb (Art, ‘16) and their former professor, Chad Colby.

Four Deming family members outside of McPherson Chapel

Family legacies that grew from FLC

For the Deming and Sells-Wheeler families, Fort Lewis College has been a part of their legacies for multiple generations.

M O R E N E W S F R O M F L C

On the day of President Biden's Inauguration, sophomore Bella Aiukli Cornell was delighted to see New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland representing Native American culture by wearing the handcrafted traditional ribbon skirt Cornell made for her two years ago. Cornell stated, "I wanted to give her that because that’s something we do when we admire someone in our culture."
Alumna Kelly Koskie (Accounting, '96) has returned to the Four Corners after 15 years in the Midwest to serve as the new finance director of the City of Cortez, Colorado.
Natalie Benally (Theatre, '10) has been named a Cultural Capital Fellow by the First Peoples Fund, an organization whose mission is to honor and support First Peoples artists and culture-bearers through grants, awards, and fellowships.
Center of Southwest Studies Director Shelby Tisdale has edited a new book with author Federico Jiménez Caballero, an Indigenous Mixtec jewelry artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist whose story brings readers on his remarkable journey from Oaxaca, Mexico to Los Angeles.
During time spent in Cuba over the years, Associate Professor Benjamin Waddell has seen how U.S. sanctions have negatively affected Cubans. Put in place as foreign policy tools, Waddell writes about how the sanctions have not effectively opened up avenues for political participation, but rather may well have led to more repression for Cubans.
Alumna Violette Cloud (Philosophy, '13) has joined the Policy Research Associates criminal justice team as a project associate. PRA is a national leader in behavioral health and research that works to create positive social change for people and communities through technical assistance, research, and training.

That's hawksome

The FLC cycling team recently helped connect a Las Vegas bike shop going out of business and a cycling nonprofit in Gallup, New Mexico. Boxes and boxes of parts were driven out from Nevada and delivered to Silver Stallion Bicycle & Coffee, a nonprofit focused on growing opportunities for folks in New Mexico and the Navajo Nation to find joy, personal fulfillment, and self-actualization through bikes and coffee.

"It happened because we are neighbors on this land. We are proud that we could be a conduit."

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