Somerset, NJ – Four St. Francis College student athletes were named the Northeast Conference 2011 Fall Commissioner's Honor Roll for their outstanding achievements in the classroom. These four as well as 13 others were named to the list of Scholar-Athletes for the Fall season.

Charter Schools were introduced as a way to improve the public school system through innovation and competition, but in New York, those Charters have had the unintended consequence of reducing enrollment at Parochial Schools across the state, says Abraham Lackman of the Albany Law School's Government Law Center at the panel discussion The Tension Between Catholic Schools & Charter Schools held at St. Francis College February 13.

St. Francis Management Majors have again achieved top rankings in the international GLO-BUS management simulation competition, scoring a first place finish and top five percent finish among almost two thousand competitor teams from more than 100 colleges and universities.

Telling her fellow classmates that getting by is not enough, St. Francis College Winter 2012 Valedictorian, Hadar Burger encouraged her classmates to follow their dreams with passion and to, "choose to flourish and to succeed."

Five outstanding former student-athletes were inducted into the St. Francis College Hall of Fame on Saturday, January 21st at the Brooklyn Heights campus: Ron Arnold (06', Men's Basketball), Shelia M. Pickard (79, Women's Swimming), Mark Ferro (83', Men's Swimming & Water Polo), Gary Gooden (97', Men's Soccer, Track & Field), and Marie McGoldrick-Raico ('94, Women's Volleyball & Softball).

In the dark, wood-paneled library of the Brooklyn Historical Society, students in Eric Platt's history class pulled on pristine white gloves and began to pore over delicate black and white photos laid out on long tables. Some of the photographs — dating back to around 1900 — are grainy family portraits taken on the Coney Island boardwalk and printed on iron sheets. Later photos, taken in the 1980s in the same location, show graffiti-scarred, dilapidated buildings.

The Staples Foundation is supporting St. Francis College and its goal of encouraging education and careers in science with a grant for $15,000 to support the College's Summer Science Academy.

Students, faculty and leaders of St. Helen's School and St. Francis College gathered on a sunny, Monday morning, November 14, to celebrate the partnership that will enable top ranked St. Francis College to share higher education resources with the students of St. Helen's School.

Editor and biographer Paul Elie, author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage spoke about the four American contemporary authors featured in his book; Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Connor; on November 14 at St. Francis College.