Mission

St. Francis College is an inclusive and diverse institution of higher education rooted in a commitment to academic excellence, compassionate hospitality, and ethical leadership. Inspired by St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi, and founded by the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn, the college prepares students to serve and thrive in a global community and help shape a just society.

Goals

Recognizing the original Franciscan understanding of hospitality as a challenging, risk-taking social contract, we strive for gradient and appreciable success in achieving the following measurable goals:

Promoting academic excellence

Promoting existing and emerging academic undergraduate programs and exploring further development of graduate programs.

Recruiting and sustaining students and professors into a dynamic cooperative of artists-athletes-scholars.

Advancing a thriving intellectual community

Continual commitment of resources to state-of-the-art technology throughout the campus.

Supporting student life and the development of the whole person

Enabling the smooth transition of our local, national and global student body into the college community and city.

Promoting holistic wellness to develop both leadership and fellowship.

Enabling the transition from student to citizen of the world

Fostering students’ self-confidence and encouraging both responsibility and innovation through mentoring, classroom experiences and internships.

Developing collaborative leadership and citizenship by participation in activities, sports, clubs, and student-faculty projects.