University News

Saint Francis University has appointed Brianna Pavkovich of Rockwood, PA, the inaugural director of the university's newest workforce development initiative, the Aviation Maintenance Technician certificate program. As the new director, her first duties include guiding the program through the FAA approval process with the goal of beginning classes in Fall 2024. 

Ava Dzurenda, Features Editor for The Troubadour, published an insightful look into the significance of bells on campus and the journey that brought this particular bell to its new home. Ava is a junior Exercise Physiology and Science Writing double major with a minor in Communications. She is from White Oak, Pennsylvania.

Saint Francis University has announced the election of four new members to its Board of Trustees for four-year terms, beginning this fall.

We were blessed to open the first week of the 2023-24 academic year on Thursday, August 24 with the traditional Mass of the Holy Spirit on the campus mall. View the photo gallery.

This week the Class of 2027 officially started their undergraduate college journey at Saint Francis University. Learn more about the incoming class.

Saint Francis University has been named a 2023-2024 College of Distinction for demonstrating hands-on learning, strong student-teacher relationships, a vibrant campus life, and successful outcomes.

Saint Francis University seniors Antonio Campitell and Rachel Lynne Langsdorf were named Mr. and Miss Frankie during the President’s Awards Convocation on May 2.

The President's Awards Convocation was held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in the Maurice Stokes Athletics Center.

Saint Francis University presents the Dr. John Powers Outstanding Educator Award to a deserving elementary or secondary teacher or administrator each spring. This year, the university presented the award to four outstanding educators during the Saint Francis University President's Awards Convocation on May 4, 2023.

Keynote speaker Noel Francisco focused on the importance of religion to a free society, what lawyers can do to protect religious freedom, and why it is essential that Catholic lawyers do this important work in a principled way but with the utmost civility and compassion towards their fellow citizens.