Roger Hertog, Vice Chairman Emeritus of AllianceBernstein, L.P. and Chairman Emeritus of the Manhattan Institute, was so moved by the testimonials about St. Francis College's retiring President Frank J. Macchiarola '62, that Hertog committed $1 million to the College in honor of Macchiarola's life's work before the 47th Annual Charter Award Dinner was even over.

St. Francis College Alumnus and former CEO of Deloitte, Bill Parrett '67 shared some of his 40 years of accounting and workplace skills with a group of current St. Francis accounting and management students Monday, April 7. He focused on dos and don'ts for the first five years on the job.

A first of its kind one-day conference on women's poetry drew dozens of scholars and educators from across the area and as far away as New Orleans, Ohio and Maine to St. Francis College on April 5 to answer the question, Why Study Women's Poetry?

Hundreds of St. Francis College students, faculty and staff along with friends and relatives from the community were treated to carnival games, karaoke and food April 4, all for a serious cause, the Third Annual Relay For Life, co-sponsored by the College and the American Cancer Society.

After almost 40 years in the banking industry, Chairman and CEO of Metro New York / New Jersey Division of Sovereign Bancorp, Brendan J. Dugan '68, is joining the world of higher education; becoming the 18th President of St. Francis College effective July 1.

Sixty Five percent of students at New York City's Stuyvesant High School are Asian, but Asians only make up 12 percent of the citywide school population. The numbers are equally impressive at the other two gems in the city's public school crown, Bronx High School of Science (60%) and Brooklyn Technical High School (53%). So why do Chinese students excel in school? Three professors took a look and presented their research Friday, March 28 at the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology (IICCP).

A crowd of students, faculty and members of the community filled the Maroney Forum at St. Francis College Thursday, March 27 for a talk by former City Council President and New York State Senator Carol Bellamy on how women and children are the main force behind positive societal developments across the world.

More than 100 St. Francis College students learned about a variety of careers in the insurance industry at the College's first Insurance Informational Fair, on Tuesday March 25th in the Callahan Center.

Former Brooklynite, Dr. Alan Astro returned to his home borough to talk about Yiddish Poetry of the Holocaust at St. Francis College on Friday, April 18. Professor Astro focused on poems by three writers: Jacob Glatstein, Aaron Zeitlin, and Abraham Sutzkever, showing their strikingly different responses to the catastrophe.

Just after learning the final fate of her husband, Daniel Pearl, Mariane Pearl made the decision that there was one way to get revenge on the terrorists that killed 'Danny', to have hope. Pearl talked about the death of her husband, the life of her son and her battle to spread hope with a standing-room only crowd of more than 300 people at St. Francis College Monday afternoon, March 10 as speaker for the Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series in Global Business and Finance.