Fort Lewis College

1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301-3999 -  View Map

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• Fort Lewis College is named after a former U.S. Army post established in the late 1870s. In 1891, it became a boarding school for American Indians. Twenty years later, Congress gave the school to the State of Colorado with the agreement that American Indians would be offered tuition-free education. Fort Lewis became an agricultural high school in 1911 and later evolved into a junior college. The campus moved to its present-day Durango site in 1956, first offered four-year degree programs in 1962, and graduated its first baccalaureate class in 1964.
• Fort Lewis College sits on a mesa-like terrace overlooking Durango and the 13,000-foot peaks of the La Plata Mountains. Facilities includes 15 residence halls and apartment buildings (mostly coed) and 14 academic facilities including the Center of Southwest Studies, Community Concert Hall, Education/Business Hall, Chemistry Hall, Art Hall, Noble Hall, Sage Hall, Berndt Hall, Theatre, Student Life Center, John F. Reed Library, Acquatic Center, Whalen Gymnasium, Linda & Ben Nighthorse Campbell Child & Family Center, College Union.
• As Colorado's public liberal arts college, Fort Lewis College focuses on undergraduate education, offering quality baccalaureate degree programs in the arts, sciences, and professional areas of education and business. The College has an enduring commitment to develop and maintain its programs at a level equal to those of other outstanding undergraduate institutions in the nation.
• Fort Lewis College offers a number of programs leading to the bachelor’s degree. The Bachelor of Science degree is offered in biology, chemistry, geology, and physics; the Bachelor of Arts degree is granted in all other four-year programs. In addition, the College offers a program leading to the Associate of Arts degree in agricultural science.
• Fort Lewis College is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges.
• Profile last updated: 00/00/0000.

In the News:

• Metal go-round (The Durango Herald)
  posted on July 26, 2011 at 06:12:05 am
  Nick Keeler, an employee of Habitat for Humanity and an environmental studies major at Fort Lewis College, throws a metal tube into a scrap-metal recycling bin on Monday at the Habitat ReStore, 120-E Girard St. in Bodo Park. A week’s worth of donations had almost filled a large industrial bin, and another bin is on the way for anyone who wants to recycle scrap metal between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m ...
• Fort Lewis College offers tuition cut (9 News Denver)
  posted on July 25, 2011 at 04:43:11 pm
  DURANGO (AP) - Fort Lewis College is offering a bargain to high school students who attend college while they're in high school.
• FLC helps high-schoolers get a taste of college work (The Durango Herald)
  posted on July 25, 2011 at 08:12:06 am
  By her senior year at Durango High School, Tori Duhaime was kind of over the whole high school thing.So instead of hanging out at DHS, she enrolled in three classes at Fort Lewis College during the spring semester and tried out the life of a college student.
• A weavers eye (The Durango Herald)
  posted on July 25, 2011 at 06:11:15 am
  Carolyn Klinnert needle felts an iris at the Art Hall at Fort Lewis College during Sunday’s Intermountain Weaving Conference. Needle felting is part of a larger process called “wet felting” that Klinnert says, “is the same as throwing a sweater in a washing machine, only we are doing it on purpose.”
• Gore Takes on Climate Deniers with 24 Hours of Reality (Environment News Service)
  posted on July 12, 2011 at 11:29:26 pm
  Al Gore waves to the audience at a Power Shift event at the Environmental Center Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, April 15, 2011. (Photo courtesy Fort Lewis College )

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