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The total enrollment at St. Francis College is 2,489, of which 38% are male and 62% are female. St. Francis College has been ranked by The New York Times as one of the more diverse colleges in the United States. [37] 85% of students enrolled are below the age of 24. Below is the 2020 enrollment data for St. Francis College by race and ethnicity ...
Nelson Barbosa, former professor at St. Francis College, current Brazil's Minister of Finance. [30] Joseph Brennan, former men's basketball head coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, class of '75. Peter Kavanagh, (19 March 1916-January 27, 2006) writer, scholar, and publisher [31]
President Emeritus. His 26-year tenure as President is the longest in SFC history. 1995–1996: John K. Hawes, Ph.D. Interim president. [6] 17: 1996–2008: Frank J. Macchiarola, Ph.D. The first permanent lay President of St. Francis College. 18: 2008–2016: Brendan J. Dugan: Died while serving as president of the college on December 18, 2016 ...
Saint Francis College was established in 1847 by six Franciscan teaching Brothers from Mountbellew, Ireland, who had been given land in Loretto by Michael O'Connor, the first Bishop of Pittsburgh, to establish a school. [4] The university was one of the first Catholic universities in the United States and the first Franciscan college in the nation.
Beginning on November 27, 2012, St. Francis College rebranded its athletic programs from St. Francis (NY) to St. Francis Brooklyn. [10] The college previously came to be known as St. Francis (NY) when the athletics program joined the Division I Northeast Conference in 1981. In 2018 it was announced that women's soccer [11] and men's volleyball ...
On March 20, 2023, St. Francis College announced that it would end intercollegiate athletics following the spring semester, [6] making the 2022–23 season the program's final season in existence. The St. Francis Brooklyn men's basketball program was founded in 1896 and is the oldest collegiate program in New York City.
Saint Francis’ athletics tradition dates back to 1867 when a group of students formed a team called the Independent Star-Athletic Association. The team played its first game under the Saint Francis banner in 1888. Gymnastics was established in 1882, while football was first played at Saint Francis University in 1892.
The school became the University of St. Francis in 1998, the same year the school began offering online courses and degree programs. In 2002, Michael J. Vinciguerra was named the university’s eighth president, and by 2004 was organized in five colleges: College of Arts & Sciences, College of Business & Health Administration, College of Education, College of Nursing and Health Professions ...