When Kejsi Shkreta '18 first came to New York from Albania, she left behind a country that was enjoying a new openness to the world and its first taste of democracy. Her parents worked hard to give her the opportunity to attend high school in the United States and she took full advantage.Now as Valedictorian for the Class of 2018 Winter Commencement, Kejsi (pronounced KAY'-cee) will share her story and words of encouragement with her fellow graduates on Tuesday, January 16 at St. Charles Borromeo Church.

St. Francis College welcomed Julie Golia March 27, 2018 to talk about the history of the Brooklyn Waterfront as part of the Spring 2018 Senior Citizen Lecture Series, "From New Nation to World Power: Culture, Politics, and Society in the United States, 1789-1896."

Students Jacob Meyers and Stephany Portillo Hidalgo took first and second place, respectively, at the sixth annual #BuildYourDream competition, co-sponsored by the Center for Entrepreneurship and the Business Innovation Club.

Today, Fortress Press released “Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus,” by J. Christopher Edwards, professor of religious studies.

Reading from his new novel, The Flame Alphabet, Ben Marcus painted a horrifying picture of a world where the sound of children talking causes the death of their parents. As the latest speaker in the Walt Whitman Writers Series sponsored by St. Francis College on March 8th, Marcus went on to explore the question of,

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.

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.

He was born in Ethiopia and immigrated to the United States when he was two, but Walt Whitman Writer Series speaker Dinaw Mengestu says despite obvious physical, ethnic and geographic differences, it is what all people have in common that makes literature such an effective way to communicate and educate.

From 116 entries, more than twice the submissions for the first prize two years ago, St. Francis College is proud to announce the six authors on the short list for the second $50,000 Literary Prize awarded to a mid-career author.