Actress Jessica Hecht (The Price, Friends) came to St. Francis College October 21, 2017 for an Arthur Miller Birthday Celebration marking what would have been the author's 102nd birthday.

New York Post Columnist Michael Goodwin and New York Daily News Columnist Harry Siegel came to St. Francis College on October 19 to talk about New York City Mayor Bill DiBlasio and President Donald Trump.

Forced from their homes simply because of their ancestry, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into World War II internment camps, but many resisted, leading to more severe punishments for 12,000 prisoners. Reporter (Currents) and filmmaker Konrad Aderer came to St. Francis College October 19, 2017 to tell that long-suppressed story in his new documentary Resistance at Tule Lake.

He went to prison for 17 years for murdering his parents. The problem is, Marty Tankleff didn't do it. Exonerated for the horrendous crime, Tankleff now speaks about the legal system and his case.

The St. Francis College Honors Program welcomed international scholar Gregory Claeys for the 6th Annual Dr. Francis J. Greene Honors Lecture Series on October 12, 2017 for the talk From Utopia to Dystopia.

Paul Beston and Jacob Siegel came to St. Francis College October 10, 2017 to talk about Beston's new book, The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring.

New St. Francis President Miguel Martinez-Saenz began his talk on Hospitality October 5, with the spoken word piece Fish & Bread by Bryonn Bain as part of the 2017 St. Clare and St. Francis Week activities.

Professor Catherine Carpenter (Southwestern Law School), a nationally renowned criminal law scholar in the area of sex crimes and sex offender registration laws, came to St. Francis College on September 26 to talk about The Unconstitutionality of Sex Offense Laws.

For 13 years Fr. Brian Jordan, Director of Campus Ministry at St. Francis College fought to keep an icon from 9/11, the Ground Zero Cross, in public view. Now, he's written a memoir which chronicles the journey.

With the gift of $50,000 for winning the 2017 St. Francis College Literary Prize, Dana Spiotta (Innocents and Others - Scribner) now has one of the most important gifts of all, the gift to spend more time working on new projects.