St. Francis College welcomed award winning architect Jeffrey Beers as the latest speaker for the Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series on November 10, 2016.

St. Francis College welcomed Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding, MFA vs NYC) on November 10, 2016 as the latest author to speak for the Walt Whitman Writers Series in a conversation with English Professor and Director of the College's Writing Program Theo Gangi.

The St. Francis College Xi Rho chapter of the Kappa Delta Pi Education Honor Society hosted a panel of SFC alumni on November 10, 2016 to talk about their careers in education and how St. Francis College was able to help them secure job placements.

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.

The St. Francis College Center for Entrepreneurship welcomed social entrepreneur Joe Keenan, President of the The Graybeards on November 7, 2016 for a talk on how entrepreneurs can also be altruistic.

St. Francis College welcomed back Professor Emeritus Francis J. Greene, Ph.D. for a talk on Landmark Preservation in New York City on November3, 2016.

Arun Venugopal, host of the WNYC podcast, The United States of Anxiety, came to St. Francis College on Tuesday, November 1 to talk about the 2016 Election as part of the Fall 2016 Senior Lecture Series - Inequality and Minorities in American Culture.

St. Francis College welcomed prize winning historian Nancy Hewitt for a talk about "Recasting Women's Votes: Race, Region, and Rights 1869-1970."

Even with a Nobel Peace Prize and many awards and honors for advocating for peace and equality Leymah Gbowee admits that she is still very much a work in progress.