Gov. John Hickenlooper will deliver the 2018 spring commencement address at Fort Lewis College on April 28.
Nearly 500 students will graduate.
Two ceremonies will be held in Whalen Gym to accommodate the graduates. The first will begin at 8:30 a.m.; the second will being at 11:30 a.m. Visit www.fortlewis.edu/graduation online for a list of the majors awarded at each ceremony.
When he became governor, he was the first Denver mayor to make that transition in 150 years. He is also the first Colorado governor to have a geology background, and the first brewer to be elected governor in the United States since Sam Adams in 1792.
Hickenlooper has been an advocate in support the college’s Native American Tuition Waiver program, which grants Native American students from across the country free tuition. The program is paid for from state of Colorado funds, and the college has been lobbying Congress to have the federal government assume the cost of the program.
He has visited campus to speak on the importance of graduating more teachers in Colorado.
Both commencement ceremonies will be live-streamed on the school’s Facebook page.
