From nearly 40 submissions, the jury for the first ever St. Francis College Literary Prize has selected a short list of four authors who will now compete for the $50,000 award which will be announced at the Gala Opening Night Party of the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 12. The authors are: Chris Abani, Song For Night (Akashic Books); Aleksandar Hemon, Love and Obstacles (Riverhead Books); Jim Krusoe, Girl Factory (Tin House Books) and Arthur Phillips, The Song Is You (Random House).

An engaged crowd was treated to a mixture of an economic history lesson with a critique of the present and advice for the future of New York City and New York State as St. Francis College and the Manhattan Institute hosted the panel discussion, Keeping New York in the Black, Our Current Fiscal Woes In Light Of The 1975 Fiscal Crisis, on Thursday, May 7 at St. Francis College.

From Tennis to Track, on land and in the water, a number of St. Francis College athletes performed at an exceptional level during the 2008-2009 school year.

Those who help women around the world break through economic and social barriers and some who have succeeded came together at St. Francis College's Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture & Education, Wednesday, March 11 for the symposium, Empowerment at Work: Women Breaking Down Barriers in Our Global World.

Part reunion, part roast but 100% singing spectacle, the All City Concert Choir reclaimed its perch atop New York City's choral society on Saturday, March 14 at St. Francis College with a two hour concert celebration of the choir and the man who conducted them for decades, Dr. John Motley.

St. Francis College is pleased to announce the creation of a new $50,000 literary prize for an author's fourth book of fiction. The book can be either a novel or collection of short stories. The jury reading the entries is a literary all-star team featuring Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction winner Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn), author and co-editor of The Believer magazine Heidi Julavits (The Uses of Enchantment: A Novel), author and head of the writing MFA program at Columbia University Ben Marcus (The Age of Wire and String) and author Ayelet Waldman (Love and Other Impossible Pursuits).

St. Francis College Professor and Chairman of the Management Department Dr. John Dilyard and Economics Professor Dr. Behrouz Tabrizi offer these comments on the Federal Reserve Rate Cut on January 22, 2008:

More than 100 St. Francis College students learned about a variety of careers in the insurance industry at the College's first Insurance Informational Fair, on Tuesday March 25th in the Callahan Center.

The end of the college school year is a new beginning for many of the people who work at St. Francis College. The College is pleased to announce a slate of new promotions taking effect July 1.

A group of St. Francis College students will have more than just their degrees on their resumes when they leave school. They are also accomplished authors. Seventeen student participants of Professor Terry Quinn's Creative Writing Workshop recently had more than 30 short stories, poems and one-act dramas published in the new anthology, From the Heart of Brooklyn – Volume Two (Vivisphere).