NEW YORK, February 22, 2007 – St. Francis College today announced the official launch of a new partnership among St. Francis and 42 other leading higher education institutions in the region, along with their first product: an easily accessible, comprehensive job bank of academic opportunities in the greater New York City and southern Connecticut region, accessible at http://www.mnyscherc.org.

More than 100 professors, grad students, independent scholars, and museum professionals from across the country and as far away as Paris, Francs came to St. Francis College for the Association of Historians of American Art's (AHAA) first even independent symposium, "Current Research in American Art" from October 7 to 9.

In celebration of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, St. Francis College is reaffirming its belief in the ideals and values of the College's patron saint with a series of events under the umbrella of St. Clare and St. Francis Week beginning Monday, September 30 and running through Friday, October 4, the day of the Feast.

Students, faculty and leaders of St. Francis Xavier School and St. Francis College gathered on a sunny, Tuesday morning, May 3, to celebrate the partnership between the two institutions. The goal of the partnership is to share the higher education resources of the top ranked St. Francis College with the students of St. Francis Xavier.

A week-long celebration of the Franciscan spirit concluded Saturday, October 4 with a collection of St. Francis College students volunteering to arrange floral decoration for senior citizen shut-ins around Brooklyn. The flowers were donated through a partnership with the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and elderly service organization, Heights and Hills.

Concerts at Half-Past Twelve brings Brooklyn Baroque to perform the works of legendary composers Bach, Handel, and Couperin on October 22nd.

As part of the larger St. Francis College campaign celebrating 50 years of educating women in the 160-year history of the College, St. Francis College will honor women's basketball legends, Jeanne Zatorski '79, and Karen Erving-Schiera '91.

On March 14, a group of students from the University of Southern Mississippi traveled to Brooklyn to learn more about the SFC Justice Initiative’s Post-Prison Program.

Barack Obama in Hawaii and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President (Praeger), a multicultural biography of U.S. President Barack Obama written by Dinesh Sharma, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research at St. Francis College, made the Top 10 list for Black History Nonfiction for 2012.

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.