{"id":51534,"date":"2020-09-17T16:28:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T22:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fort-lewis-college-ranks-among-top-10-for-diversity\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T22:28:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T22:28:33","slug":"fort-lewis-college-ranks-among-top-10-for-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fort-lewis-college-ranks-among-top-10-for-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lewis College ranks among top 10 for diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a9515271-d53c-4dcc-976b-b00145bc7a50&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1108\" alt=\"Fort Lewis College was ranked ninth for campus diversity in the 2021 rankings of Best Colleges by U.S. News &amp; World Report.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Fort Lewis College was ranked ninth for campus diversity in the 2021 rankings of Best Colleges by U.S. News &amp; World Report.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em> ranks Fort Lewis College ninth for campus diversity among liberal arts colleges in its 2021 Best Colleges rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The top three liberal arts colleges for campus diversity, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/best-colleges\/rankings\/national-liberal-arts-colleges\/campus-ethnic-diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rankings<\/a> released Monday, were Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California; Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California; and Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Students of color now represent 57% of the student body at FLC, and 45% of students are Native American or Alaska Native with 185 tribal nations and Alaska Native villages represented.<\/p>\n<p>FLC has seen an increase each year in student body diversity, with a 7% increase since 2018 when students of color first represented more than half of all students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiversity is valued at our college and we are now well-poised to strengthen and enhance equity and inclusion for all students, faculty and staff,\u201d said Lee Bits\u00f3\u00ed, associate vice president of diversity affairs, in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>FLC\u2019s board of trustees pledged in August to critically examine how to address institutionalized racism on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter our differences, our backgrounds, we can come together to care for each other to create a better version of FLC,\u201d President Tom Stritikus, said in a news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis College was ranked ninth for campus diversity in the 2021 rankings of Best Colleges by U.S. News &amp; World Report.Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file U.S. News &amp; World Report ranks Fort Lewis College ninth for campus diversity among liberal arts colleges in its 2021 Best Colleges rankings. The top three liberal arts colleges for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[132,28,4502],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fort-lewis-college","tag-headlines","tag-talk-about-town"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51534"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}