From 130 to six, the short list is out for the $50,000 St. Francis College Literary Prize, one of the richest literary awards in the United States. Authors on the 2015 shortlist are: Paul Beatty, The Sellout (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Maud Casey, The Man Who Walked Away (Bloomsbury USA) Stuart Dybek, Paper Lantern (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) David Gilbert, & Sons (Random House) Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead) René Steinke, Friendswood (Riverhead)

Valedictorian Matthew Delfino '14 delivered a spirited and emotional address to nearly 400 of his classmates during the St. Francis College Spring Commencement held May 13 at Brooklyn Academy of Music.

The St. Francis College Honors Program, under the direction of Dr. John Dilyard, welcomed Gabriella (Biella) Coleman to present the Third Annual Dr. Francis J. Greene Honors Lecture, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous, on November 13, 2014.

Sixty-two graduates from the St. Francis College Class of 2019 will be joined by family and friends for the College's winter 2019 commencement ceremony at the St. Charles Borromeo Church in Brooklyn on Tuesday, January 22 at 4 p.m. A Baccalaureate Mass will be held at 3 p.m. before the commencement ceremony begins.

From today's education leaders to the leaders of tomorrow, St. Francis College celebrated its 127th Charter Day with a convocation dedicated to the importance of teaching and learning on April 29 in the College's Founders Hall.

Environmental Empathies will be on display from February 6th to March 28th in the Callahan Center Art Gallery.

New St. Francis President Miguel Martinez-Saenz began his talk on Hospitality October 5, with the spoken word piece Fish & Bread by Bryonn Bain as part of the 2017 St. Clare and St. Francis Week activities.

Upcoming conference tackles incarceration, solitary confinement, and life after prison from Nov. 14th - 15th at St. Francis College.

On April 11, the SFC Art Gallery hosted a reception to mark the opening of “Dare, Denounce and Draw,” the first-ever art exhibition at St. Francis College’s new home, in Downtown Brooklyn. The exhibition features the work of Pedro X. Molina, an internationally recognized political cartoonist as well as the College’s current Franciscan Service Fellow in Human Rights.

United States District Judge Paul G. Gardephe gave a crowded room of students and members of the St. Francis College community a comprehensive talk on the importance of the American judicial system and the way the court system works on Monday, October 18 at the College.