The question, Is the New York Times Good for Democracy? cast the opposing speakers far apart ideologically in their panel discussion at St. Francis College on Monday, February 7 at the College, but Michael Tomasky, Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and American Editor-at-Large of The Guardian and William McGowan, author of Gray Lady Down (Encounter Books)were both brought further to the center as the night continued.

Families and friends of the late Brother Edmund Holmes, OSF '28 came to St. Francis College for a Mass and to dedicate the college's newest lecture hall in his memory. It was the support of Brother Edmund's Franciscan Brothers and his family that made it possible to construct the state-of-the-art teaching facility.

Speaking humbly but with stories from decades of successful experiences, author E.L. Doctorow addressed an eager audience of St. Francis College students, faculty and administrators as well as members of the larger St. Francis community, as the latest honored guest of the Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series on Thursday, February 3

St. Francis College Biology Professor Irina Ellison is in a major battle. It's not the fight of her life, but the lives of others as she tries to help people break their addiction to smoking.

Global warming is an indisputable fact, Michael Oppenheimer, member of a Nobel Prize-winning UN panel told an audience during his lecture Thursday, January 20 at St. Francis College, saying it's now our responsibility to lessen how big the climate change will be

St. Francis College is proud to announce the promotion of Joseph Cummings as the College's new Assistant Vice President of Enrollment Management Services where he will oversee the areas of Admissions and Student Financial Services.

Two St. Francis College students made sure children at New York Methodist Hospital were not left out of the holiday of season this year when stopped by the Pediatric Ward for a special toy delivery before Christmas.

The St. Francis College Men's Basketball team is playing in the Madison Square Garden Holiday Classic for the first time against Northwestern on December 20 at 7:00pm. The winner of that game plays for the Championship the next night against the winner of the St. John's, Davidson match-up. The losers of both games will meet in a Consolation contest also on December 21.

Coming from different backgrounds but all a part of the Brooklyn Literati, five authors and publishers from Brooklyn came together December 10 for an open discussion on how changing neighborhoods are having an impact on the writers' community of the borough for Brooklyn in Literature, 1855-2010 at St Francis College.

A collection of St. Francis College students presented a deeply moving and personal production with a focus on hate in our society in their two performances of Israel Horovitz's The Indian Wants the Bronx and their original production How We Got That Way, in the College's Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education on December 9.