St. Francis College welcomed Fred and Jacob Siegel on October 11, 2016 for a talk about Donald Trump and the rise of the Alt-Right as part of the Fall 2016 Senior Lecture Series - Inequality and Minorities in American Culture.

St. Francis College welcomed Sr. Kathleen Moffatt, OSF from the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for an Introduction to the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition on October 6, 2016.

St. Francis College proudly sponsored an Interfaith Panel Discussion on Mercy on October 5, 2016, featuring Ms. Imam Boukadoum (Director of Community Partnerships at the Interfaith Center of New York), Fr. Joel Warden, c.o., Ph.D. (Pastor of the Oratory Church of St. Boniface and Administrator of the Church of the Assumption in Brooklyn, New York), and Rabbi Joseph Potasnik (Executive Vice President of the New York Board of Rabbis).

St. Francis College Communication Arts Professor Magaly Christopher-Colimon presented the, The Hunting Season, a staged reading & panel discussion on police profiling in America.

St. Francis College welcomed Alyce McGovern on October 4, 2016 to talk about Sexting and Young People as part of the Fall 2016 Senior Citizen Lecture Series: Inequality and Monorities in American Culture.

The Women's Poetry Initiative proudly welcomed Marilyn Hacker for the Fall Reading October 4, 2016.

To kick off the annual St. Clare and St. Francis Week celebration at St. Francis College the College hosted a professor, student, and administrator who had all visited Assisi and Rome on pilgrimage through the College on September 29, 2016.

St. Francis College welcomed journalist, editor, and translator Debbie Nathan for the Fall 2016 Senior Lecture Series - Inequality and Minorities in American Culture to talk about The Life and Death of Sandra Bland on September 27, 2016.

Around New York City and around the world, Jack Schwartz helped get some of the biggest news stories of the past 50 years in the hands of faithful newspaper readers. He came to St. Francis College September 26, 2016 to share stories of his journey, collected in his memoir, The Fine Print: My Life as a Deskman.