The Staples Foundation is supporting St. Francis College and its goal of encouraging education and careers in science with a grant for $15,000 to support the College's Summer Science Academy.

Students, faculty and leaders of St. Helen's School and St. Francis College gathered on a sunny, Monday morning, November 14, to celebrate the partnership that will enable top ranked St. Francis College to share higher education resources with the students of St. Helen's School.

Editor and biographer Paul Elie, author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage spoke about the four American contemporary authors featured in his book; Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Connor; on November 14 at St. Francis College.

A crowd of students, friends, and family gathered inside St. Francis College's Founders Hall on 11/11/11 for the east coast premiere of "In Black," the award winning feature film by St. Francis alumnus Evan Apostolakos '11.

St. Francis Fine Arts Professor Dr. Francis Greene traces the changing artistic representations of Jesus throughout history as part of the 2011 season of Mysteries of the Church, a documentary show on NET TV.

As the attacks of 9/11 move further into the past, St. Francis Professors Francis Greene & Brother Edward Wesley, spoke about how memorials and a Franciscan approach to the events help people commemorate and reflect on the tragedy at a talk on November 7 in the St. Francis Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Entertainment.

Being a good leader means making the best decision possible even when you don't have all the information you'd like. That's the situation St. Francis College alumnus Thomas Von Essen '72 found himself in on September 11, 2001 as he surveyed the devastation after the first plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center, he told a rapt audience on November 3 at St. Francis College.

In 2008, when Barack Obama became the first African-American president of the United States, he reiterated his promise to Americans of "Change we can believe in." The author of a new book about the president, Dinesh Sharma, told the audience at St. Francis College on October 28 that by understanding Obama's multicultural upbringing and the events and individuals that fundamentally shaped his character, Americans can gain valuable insight into exactly what type of change Obama plans to implement for America's future.

According to the Center for Women's Business Research "10.1 million firms are owned by women (50% or more), employing more than 13 million people, and generating $1.9 trillion in sales as of 2008." Women face a number of obstacles in the workplace but through mentorship, leadership, networking and work-life balance, women are not only staying in business, they are breaking through the glass ceiling. These strategies were the focus of a panel discussion featuring extraordinary women leaders across various industries, an event hosted by the St. Francis College Women's Center on October 26 in the St. Francis Genovesi Center.