The words of poet Maya Angelou were the first ones uttered by President Miguel Martinez-Saenz to a standing room only crowd of prospective students and their parents at the St. Francis College Open House in October. They knew, right away, this new president was energized with new ways to engage and educate the entire college community.Now a few months into his tenure as the 19th President in its 160 year history, St. Francis College is proud to announce a series of events celebrating the inauguration of President Miguel Martinez-Saenz.

The evolution of art in human beings is the topic of a new book by St. Francis College English Professor Gregory F. Tague. Art and Adaptability: Consciousness and Cognitive Culture (Brill│Rodopi) is the third book in a trilogy that discusses the arts and humanities in light of evolution.

What began with a walk to bridge the tuition gap, continued on Giving Tuesday with a full day of appreciation for St. Francis College benefactors, and a major e-campaign and phone-a-thon. One week later, St. Francis College is proud to announce that the Giving Tuesday campaign raised more than $150,000 dollars from more than 500 donors, a new high water mark for a day meant to refocus the holiday season on helping others.

Kathleen Gray, Assistant Academic Dean at St. Francis College spoke about, Imperceptible Privilege: How Whites Negotiate Conversations about Race, on December 5, 2017 as part of the Fall 2017 Senior Citizen Lecture Series: Perspectives on American Politics & Policies.

The floodgates are open as the St. Francis College Women's Film Festival is now accepting submissions for the 3rd annual celebration of women in film. Last year more than 1,000 filmmakers from 27 countries vied for almost 60 slots in the festival.

The Women's Poetry Initiative at St. Francis College and the Department of English welcomed Susan Miller, two-time winner of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize for poetry, to read from her new collection of poems, Communion of Saints (Paraclete Press, 2017) on November 29, 2017.

St. Francis College welcomed Dr. Mical Raz on November 28, 2017 for the talk, Making Child Abuse White? Parents Anonymous, Physicians and Child Abuse Policy in the 1970s.

Margee Kerr, author of SCREAM: Chilling Adventures in the Science of fear came to St. Francis College to offer the talk, Hijacking Fear: The subtle, and not so subtle ways politicians and the media use fear to motivate action on November 21, 2017.

The tobacco epidemic kills 28,200 people every year in New York State alone and afflicts more than a half million New Yorkers with serious tobacco-related illnesses and disabilities. Despite a substantial decline in smoking rates in New York City in the past decade, there are still tobacco-related health disparities affecting many New Yorkers. As part of the Great American Smokeout (GASO), NYC Smoke-Free collaborated with St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights to encourage smokers on campus and in the larger community to quit for one day and to raise awareness of the importance of smoke-free protections in creating environments where quit attempts are more likely to be successful.