More than 600 New York City high school students got a jumpstart on their college degrees last school year, thanks to the St. Francis College High School Bridge Program.

St. Francis College (SFC) today announces that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the college a $150,000 grant to fund a project that expands support for the digital humanities.

Earlier this month, St. Francis College co-hosted an event with the Brooklyn Transition and College Access Centers, a division of the New York City Department of Education and community partner that supports students in need of academic, social-emotional and vocational accommodations.

On March 31, St. Francis College sold its 180 Remsen Street campus to BK Acquisition Three L.L.C., an affiliate of Rockrose Development.

“Order My Steps,” a short film directed by Augusta Palmer, chair of the department of media and communication at St. Francis College, and written by Kathryn Grant, an instructor in the department, will premiere next month at the Women Deliver Arts & Film Festival in Kigali.

The exhibition features architectural renderings of buildings and portraits of community members of the iconic Manhattan neighborhood by the artist Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong.

Under the guidance of founder and editor Dr. Wendy Galgan, a Lecturer of English, St. Francis College is proud to announce the start of a new literary and academic tradition with the release of the inaugural issue of Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters.

St. Francis College Professor of English Gregory F. Tague is pleased to announce the publication of his second book of 2010 and fourth scholarly book overall, Origins of English Dramatic Modernism, 1870–1914 (Academica Press), which focuses on the development of artistic, stylistic, and intellectual English dramas.

St. Francis College Athletic Director Irma Garcia was honored October 1 at The White House, in Washington, D.C. as a 2008 Las Primeras Award Recipient by MANA, A National Latina Organization, for becoming the first Hispanic woman to run an NCAA Division I Athletic Program. Another reception will be held the next day at the Organization of American States, Hall of the Americas.