St.Francis College announced finalists for its 2019 SFC Literary Prize, a $50,000 biennial award for an author's third to fifth work of published fiction. They are: Jennifer Clement (Gun Love), Tsitsi Dangarembga (This Mournable Body); Brandon Hobson (Where the Dead Sit Talking); Samantha Hunt (The Dark Dark); David Joy (The Line That Held Us); Danzy Senna (New People). The winner will be revealed on September 21st.

Incoming first-year student Helen "Skip" Skipper is a Peer Supervisor with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and is enrolling in St. Francis thanks to the Post-Prison Program, an initiative launched in 2014 by Dr. Emily Horowitz, Professor, Sociology & Criminal Justice, to help formerly incarcerated women and men earn their college degrees.

Working in collaboration with Dr. Victoria Ruiz, Assistant Professor of Biology and Health Promotion, a team of six undergraduates and one recent grad signed on for a 20-week project to monitor the quality of local waterways. St. Francis College is one of eleven partner labs in the New York City Water Trail Association's annual Citizens Water Quality Testing (CWQT) Program.

When Deedee Fields first enrolled in St. Francis College in 2001, she didn't know she was embarking on what would be an eighteen year journey to the graduation stage. As part of the new "Terriers Come Home" initiative, Deedee earned her degree in July 2019, having left St. Francis more than a decade ago to build her career in the NYPD.

On July 18th, St. Francis College welcomed members of the Class of 2023 to its third Orientation of the summer, as the College's newest first-year students gear up for the start of fall semester.

St. Francis College awarded its first Master in Fine Arts degrees on July 15th, to six students who enrolled in the two-year program when it launched in 2017.

Meet Brenda Onyango, from Nairobi, Kenya. Brenda moved to New York City to enroll in St. Francis in September 2018. A Management major, Brenda's sharpening her business acumen not only through her academic pursuits, but through a summer internship that provides a unique vantage point into the world of New York City finance. Brenda recently spoke about her summer gig and how she made her way from Kenya to St. Francis College.

Thirteen St. Francis College students traveled to Havana, Cuba from May 29th to June 4th, to complete a spring semester Marine Biology course they primarily took online until then.

On June 27th, St. Francis College welcomed members of the Class of 2023 for its second 2019-20 new-student Orientation. Get to know three new faces that took part in the festivities and will be among the freshman class in September.

Six Brazilian University students are calling St. Francis College home this week, as they participate in an exchange with SFC that brings them from the classrooms at 180 Remsen Street to the halls of the United Nations. A group of SFC students will head to Brazil later this summer for a two-week course focused on economics, politics and business.