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May 19, 2025
SFC Graduate with Cerebral Palsy Walks Across Stage in Emotional Commencement Moment
Academics
November 8, 2016
Now That We're Men: Performance & Talk
Much of the public conversation on sexuality is focused on women and how they need to behave, but playwright Katie Cappiello (Slut: The Play) turns the talk back on men, speaking directly to them with her new play, Now That We're Men, which was performed fives time at a special engagement at St. Francis College in October and November in the College's Maroney Forum for Arts Culture & Education.
Academics
November 17, 2016
SFC Holds 10th Annual Great American Smokeout
NYC Smoke-Free collaborated with St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights to encourage smokers on campus and in the larger community to quit for one day and to raise awareness of the importance of smoke-free protections in creating environments where quit attempts are more likely to be successful.
Academics
January 18, 2017
Women's Work Friday Night Film Series
Four St. Francis College professors join with the Women's Leadership Alliance at the First Unitarian Congregational Society to present the Women's Work Friday Night Film Series, beginning Friday, January 20 at 6:30pm at the First Unitarian Chapel on Pierrepont Street between Clinton and Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights.
Honors & Awards
May 16, 2017
SFC to Celebrate New Graduate May 24
Hundreds of graduates from the St. Francis College Class of 2017 will be joined by family and friends for the College's spring 2017 commencement ceremony on Pier 2 at Brooklyn Bridge Park on Wednesday, May 24 at 11:00am. A Baccalaureate Mass will be held the night before at 6:00pm at St. Joseph's Co-Cathedral in Brooklyn.
Academics
May 1, 2017
Post-Prison Students Talk About Importance of Education and Reform
Previously incarcerated students from St. Francis College's Post-Prison Program followed a May 1, 2017 screening of Rikers: An American Jail with a frank discussion on their experiences behind bars, at Rikers and other institutions, and their time now on the cusp of earning an undergraduate degree.
Academics
May 24, 2017
St. Francis Celebrates Spring Graduates
It was the perfect day for an outdoor graduation at Brooklyn Bridge Park, as almost 400 St. Francis College students and thousands of friends and family celebrated the College's Spring 2017 Commencement, Wednesday, May 24.
Academics
October 12, 2017
From Utopia to Dystopia With Gregory Claeys
The St. Francis College Honors Program welcomed international scholar Gregory Claeys for the 6th Annual Dr. Francis J. Greene Honors Lecture Series on October 12, 2017 for the talk From Utopia to Dystopia.
Academics
October 25, 2017
Author Ron Currie Latest Walt Whitman Writer
St. Francis College proudly welcomed Ron Currie, author of The One-Eyed Man, as the latest author to speak in the Walt Whitman Writers Series on October 25, 2017.
Academics
October 26, 2017
A Second Chance for the Formerly Incarcerated
St. Francis College Sociology and Criminal Justice Professor Belen Lowrey-Kinberg welcomed Hector Guadalupe, Rohan Hales, and Lawrence Johnson from A Second U (asecondufoundation.com) on October 26, 2017.
Academics
November 14, 2017
An Examination of the Language Used in the Sandra Bland Traffic Stop
It started out as a normal traffic stop and days later ended with the suicide of Sandra Bland. St. Francis College Sociology & Criminal Justice Professor Belen Lowrey-Kinberg examined that traffic stop from a new perspective, looking at the words used by Bland and the arresting officer.