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May 19, 2025
SFC Graduate with Cerebral Palsy Walks Across Stage in Emotional Commencement Moment
Academics
October 19, 2012
Running Franciscan Raises Awareness for Interfaith Solidarity
For his 62nd and final marathon, Father Brian Jordan, O.F.M. is dedicating his run to promoting the cause of interfaith solidarity and to help raise money for scholarships at St. Francis College.
Academics
November 7, 2012
Submissions Open for $50,000 Literary Prize
St. Francis College officially began accepting submissions for the 2013 $50,000 Literary Prize after the current prize recipient, author Jonathan Dee, read from his award winning book, The Privileges, on October 25 at the College.
Academics
June 26, 2013
SFC Professors Pen Two New Books for Summer Reading
The scholarly research of two St. Francis professors can now be found in two new books that go on sale this summer. Fine Arts Professor Jennifer Wingate's book, Sculpting Doughboys: Memory, Gender, and Taste in America's World War I Memorials (Ashgate), examines the unique position memorials of WWI soldiers hold in the social, cultural and artistic history of the United States. Sociology and Criminal Justice Professor Nickie Phillips wrote Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way (NYUPress), a look at how comic books reflect and provoke feelings on crime and punishment in modern day society.
Academics
July 18, 2013
SFC Women's Basketball Gpa Second in Nation
The St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers are tied with DePaul University for the second-highest Division I team GPA in the WBCA Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for the 2012-13 season, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) announced today. The Terriers are the only New York Metropolitan area squad to earn the honor.
Academics
November 12, 2013
Discrimination, Even in Death
History Professor Sara Haviland spoke about the role of race and politics in the unearthing of an African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan in the 1990's during her lecture for the Fifth American Studies Colloquium held on November 4 at St. Francis College.
Academics
November 8, 2013
Luther, the Most Foul Buffoon - a Lecture From Patrick Hornbeck
St. Francis College hosted the Northeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature November 8 and 9 which featured the lecture, 'The Most Foul Buffoon': Some Early English Responses to Luther," delivered by Dr. Patrick Hornbeck.
Academics
April 14, 2014
George Saunders Reads From Tenth of December
Award winning writer George Saunders (CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip) read from his latest collection of short stories, Tenth of December, as the latest speaker for St. Francis College's Walt Whitman Writers Series on Monday, April 14.
Academics
May 28, 2014
Over the Falls With SFC Honors Students
St. Francis College Honors Program students descended on Niagara Falls in April for the Northeast Regional Honors Conference, presenting a variety of papers and attending workshops with their counterparts from other colleges.
Academics
January 8, 2015
SFC Alumnus Helps Free Innocent Man
St. Francis College alumnus Robert Rahn '76 and his partner, Kim Anklin, came to St. Francis College October 28, 2014 to discuss how their private investigation helped free a wrongfully imprisoned man, Jonathan Fleming.
Academics
February 18, 2015
High Hopes for Hoops
To a person, they'll tell you that, "They haven't won anything yet," but there is a lot of excitement in Brooklyn Heights and a ton of attention being focused on the St. Francis College Men's Basketball team over the past few weeks.