St. Francis College joined President Obama, the First Lady, and Vice President Biden along with hundreds of college presidents and other higher education leaders to announce new actions to help more students prepare for and graduate from college.

An author and "unintentional" entrepreneur, Kristen launched Student Maid, a cleaning company that employs primarily students, while attending college in 2007.

Six Brazilian University students are calling St. Francis College home this week, as they participate in an exchange with SFC that brings them from the classrooms at 180 Remsen Street to the halls of the United Nations. A group of SFC students will head to Brazil later this summer for a two-week course focused on economics, politics and business.

Noted author and speaker Jon Sweeney will deliver St. Francis College's Annual Franciscan Lecture on Monday, October 7th, the culmination of St. Clare & St. Francis Week.

Community leaders and experts will address the hazards of smoking – including traditional and electronic cigarettes ("vaping") – at an annual event on November 21st organized by St. Francis College and NYC Smoke-Free.

St. Francis College's counseling professionals are among the 6,000 New Yorkers volunteering to the staff the New York State COVID-19 Emotional Support Line, offering support to people struggling to cope emotionally with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in their lives.

Despite a coronavirus pandemic causing millions of people to stay sheltered indoors, the 5th Annual SFC Women's Film Festival - and the first SFC Women's Film Fest to be created by a class of 14 students teleconferencing in in from both coasts - successfully screened 44 films over five days on the web platform Zoom.

Dozens of St. Francis College students and employees – along with members of the broader Brooklyn Heights community – received free COVID-19 tests on August 25th, thanks to a collaboration between the College and Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE), a national non-profit whose work includes increasing access to such tests in New York City.

St. Francis College students will return to campus on September 9th, as the College kicks off its academic year under its new fall 2020 plan – dubbed Back to Brooklyn – that prioritizes delivering a stellar academic experience while mitigating risk of COVID-19 transmission.

About seventy-five St. Francis College students and employees – along with members of the Brooklyn Heights community – received rapid COVID-19 tests yesterday, thanks to a collaboration between the College and Brooklyn Health Medical Alliance (BHMA), a full-service urgent care facility, managed by ModernMD, in downtown Brooklyn