Shaka King, director and co-screenwriter of the 2021 Academy Award-nominated film "Judas and the Black Messiah," will discuss his work and career with screenwriter and playwright Ben Snyder, the dramatic writing coordinator for St. Francis College's MFA program, on May 6 at 7 p.m., as the latest guest in the College's Write in Brooklyn discussion series.

Fifteen junior and senior baccalaureate SFC nursing students signed on for part-time jobs as student nursing assistants, and another eight first-year students and sophomores as nursing department runners, at NewYork Presbyterian, helping staffs in those hospitals handle the patient surge triggered by COVID-19 this winter and spring.

Since launching its MFA program in 2017, St. Francis College has been educating a new generation of poets, contributing its mark on one of the most enduring and treasured forms of written expressio

Helping propel students from under-represented populations into fulfilling accounting careers, St. Francis College has launched a student chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA), a nonprofit membership association dedicated to bridging the opportunity gap for Black professionals in the accounting, finance and related business professions.

The College's Make a Difference Club is sponsoring The Big Event, a national movement that college students participate in to show their gratitude and desire to help others.

Sixteen students earned St. Francis College's first Master of Science in Management degrees this spring and summer, making the program the College's fourth to award graduate degrees.

Members of the Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honor Society will receive an annual $500 Scholarship when they transfer as a full-time student to St. Francis College. Local PTK chapters at community colleges invite students to become members when they meet certain academic criteria, which generally includes achieving a3.5 grade point average.

St. Francis College is one 67 higher-education institutions selected by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to take part in the expanded Second Chance Pell Sites Initiative, a program that allows incarcerated women and men to use federal financial aid for college education.