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.

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.

A testament to its recruitment efforts and student-first academic focus, St. Francis College welcomed its largest, most diverse freshmen class in its history this fall, bucking national trends that saw steep declines in enrollment of first-year college students.

Confirming its success in providing opportunities to students historically underserved by higher education, the non-profit Strive for College has recognized St. Francis College for excellence in inclusion, diversity, affordability and outcomes.

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.

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.