St. Francis College welcomed ice cream icon Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. as the 2014 Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series speaker on October 27, 2014.

St. Francis College and BookCourt welcomed author Charles Baxter (Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, The Feast of Love, Believers) as the latest speaker in the Walt Whitman Writers Series on October 21.

St. Francis College presented a debate on the heatedly discussed Common Core Curriculum between Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute and Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars on Monday, October 20, at 12:30 in the College's Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education.

The decades long battle against terrorism has changed the way people think about their personal security and the freedoms they enjoy. St. Francis College Professor Yassin El-Ayouty tackled this question and the compromises we face with an expert laden panel for the event, Civil Rights Versus National Security, Exploring the Tension Between These Two National Values in a Globalized Environment of Insecurity held October 7 at St. Francis.

The Muslim Student Association hosted a talk by Cyrus McGoldrick, Isis: What Real Muslims Have To Say on October 8. The talk was followed by dinner & spoken word poetry.

A week-long celebration of the Franciscan spirit concluded Saturday, October 4 with a collection of St. Francis College students volunteering to arrange floral decoration for senior citizen shut-ins around Brooklyn. The flowers were donated through a partnership with the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and elderly service organization, Heights and Hills.

Dozens of business, government, and civic leaders came to the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, September 15 for the inaugural Minority Entrepreneur Summit co-hosted by the St. Francis College Center for Entrepreneurship and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.

Groundbreaking filmmaker David Cronenberg (History of Violence, The Fly, Crash) came to St. Francis College for the release party for his first novel, Consumed, on October 2, 2014.

With a $15,000 grant, the National Grid Foundation is showing its support for the College's Project Access Program, an initiative at St. Francis College that provides extra tutoring, mentoring, and monitoring for students who may not be entirely ready for the college experience.

St. Francis College English Professor Wendy Galgan spoke about America in the 1940's as part of the Senior Citizen Lecture Series.