The St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, men’s soccer team has a new home field: Pier 5 at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The first Terriers’ home game was held there Sept. 10. “The field has to be one of the most unique settings in all of college sports,” said Terriers’ head coach Tom Giovatto.
Students were met with some good news as they returned to St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, for their first full week of classes. U.S. News & World Report has once again ranked St. Francis as a Top Regional College in the North. “These rankings have become an annual confirmation of the success of our educational […]
The St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, women’s basketball team tied DePaul University, Chicago, for the second highest cumulative team GPA (3.625) in the country among 345 Division I women’s basketball programs. The Terriers, led by head coach John Thurston, are the only N.Y. metropolitan area team to earn the honor. “This honor, along with being […]
New York Giants’ all-pro defensive end Justin Tuck challenged the more than 400 St. Francis College graduates as the keynote speaker at the college’s Spring 2013 Commencement, May 14 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. “Champion a cause. Mine is literacy. Yours might be hunger, poverty, diseases,” Tuck told the packed crowd inside the Howard […]
Deborah Seaton, director of Student Health Services at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, died on Tuesday, Jan. 29. A licensed practical nurse with a master’s degree in public administration, she began working at the school in 2004. She oversaw the St. Francis Wellness Center and Counseling Center as well as weekly events like Healthy Hour […]
Brother Vincent Healy, O.S.F., who was born as John Gerard Healy in Park Slope and spent 67 years as a Brooklyn Franciscan brother, died Feb. 1. He was 87. After graduating from Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Sunset Park, he went on to attend St. Anthony’s Juniorate in Smithtown, L.I. He then entered the […]
The life of a Division I college basketball athlete is strenuous. The student-athletes split their time between practice, games, travel, mandatory workouts, classes and study halls. In that sort of lifestyle, it’s easy to focus solely on basketball and lose sight of what is really important in life. But at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, […]
St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, announced that its chancellor, past-president and alumnus, Frank J. Macchiarola ’62 died on Tuesday, Dec. 18, after an extended illness. He was 71. Dr. Macchiarola returned to his alma mater, St. Francis College, as its president in 1996. The college flourished under his 12-year tenure. Under his leadership, the college […]
Thanksgiving is a time for thanking God for the many blessings in one’s life. Rather than simply thanking God verbally, student-athletes from St. John’s University, Jamaica, showed their gratitude by volunteering Nov. 21 at St. John’s Bread & Life in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Each year, the Red Storm men’s and women’s basketball teams serve hot meals at […]
In recent years, the St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, education program has experienced unprecedented growth. The undergraduate program’s enrollment in 2008 was 102 students. However, now in 2012, 275 students have made the school’s education department the second largest on campus. One of the main factors in this success has been the emphasis on preparation […]
