A full house of current nursing students learned important career advice from recent graduates, St. Francis College professors, and visiting nurses at a panel on Nursing Careers hosted by the SFC Nursing Club on November 6, 2017.

A prison cell can dull even the most spirited minds, but for some, creativity is a way to get beyond the prison walls.On November 1, 2017, St. Francis College student and member of the College's Post-Prison Program, Johnny Perez '18 showed home words led to positive action by hosting Diary of My State Pen, a night of poetry and performances by formerly incarcerated writers.

Hidden on the fringes of society in a world that few will speak about openly, the rights of sex workers sit at the heart of civil liberties for all. The Center for Crime & Popular Culture at St. Francis College brought an international panel to Brooklyn Heights on October 30, 2017 to discuss a new book that tries to bring the problem and possible solutions to the forefront, Challenging Perspectives on Street-Based Sex Work (Temple University Press, 2017).

St. Francis College President Miguel Martinez-Saenz welcomed hundreds of prospective students and their families to the Fall 2017 Open House on October 29.

St. Francis College Sociology and Criminal Justice Professor Belen Lowrey-Kinberg welcomed Hector Guadalupe, Rohan Hales, and Lawrence Johnson from A Second U (asecondufoundation.com) on October 26, 2017.

St. Francis College proudly welcomed Ron Currie, author of The One-Eyed Man, as the latest author to speak in the Walt Whitman Writers Series on October 25, 2017.

Actress Jessica Hecht (The Price, Friends) came to St. Francis College October 21, 2017 for an Arthur Miller Birthday Celebration marking what would have been the author's 102nd birthday.

New York Post Columnist Michael Goodwin and New York Daily News Columnist Harry Siegel came to St. Francis College on October 19 to talk about New York City Mayor Bill DiBlasio and President Donald Trump.

Forced from their homes simply because of their ancestry, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into World War II internment camps, but many resisted, leading to more severe punishments for 12,000 prisoners. Reporter (Currents) and filmmaker Konrad Aderer came to St. Francis College October 19, 2017 to tell that long-suppressed story in his new documentary Resistance at Tule Lake.

He went to prison for 17 years for murdering his parents. The problem is, Marty Tankleff didn't do it. Exonerated for the horrendous crime, Tankleff now speaks about the legal system and his case.