St. Francis

St. Francis may refer to numerous Roman Catholic saints:

St. Francis or Saint Francis may also refer to:

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Gerard Adams

Gerard Adams (born December 20, 1984) is an American serial entrepreneur, millennial branding expert, philanthropist, and business executive. Adams is best known as co-founder of Elite Daily, known as the “voice of Generation Y”, which sold to the Daily Mail in 2015 for $50 million.

Early life and education

Adams was born in Livingston, New Jersey in 1984, and grew up in Belleville, New Jersey with a father who worked for Prudential Financial and a mother who worked at A&P. In an interview with BeYou, Adams said he was born with a “natural hustle mentality.”

He graduated from Belleville High School and became interested in the stock market at the urging of his father, who asked him to look up Prudential stock. He spent one semester at Caldwell University before he dropped out to work for an investor relation’s firm.

Career

In the 2000s, Adams was inspired by online forums on Raging Bull and Silicon Investor, which he said had contributors who lacked credibility, and added a ratings system to his own forum to found Wall Street Grand. The website included a 5-star ratings feature to evaluate writer contributions. Adams claimed he grew Wall Street Grand to $10 million in revenue before the 2008 stock market crash. He founded several other finance-related companies, including an online investor-relations and financial-marketing company, and the National Inflation Association, which educates consumers on how to survive in any economic environment.

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern United States and is the United States' 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border in the Atlantic Ocean with Rhode Island, east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the north and Ontario to the west and north. The state of New York, with an estimated 19.8 million residents in 2015, is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City, the state's most populous city and its economic hub.

With an estimated population of nearly 8.5 million in 2014, New York City is the most populous city in the United States and the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. The New York City Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City is a global city, exerting a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term New York minute. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York City is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world, as well as the world's most economically powerful city. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State. Two-thirds of the state's population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% live on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th century Duke of York, future King James II of England. The next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany.

St. Francis College

St. Francis College, often referred to as St. Francis or SFC, is a private, coeducational college located in Brooklyn Heights, New York, in the United States. The campus comprises five interconnected buildings, occupying half of a city block in Downtown Brooklyn. It was founded in 1859 by friars of the Order of Servant Franciscans, a Franciscan order, as the St. Francis Academy and was the first private school in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. St. Francis College began as a parochial all-boys academy in the City of Brooklyn and has become a small liberal arts college that has 19 academic departments which offer 72 majors and minors.

St. Francis College is a predominantly undergraduate institution, yet does have graduate programs in accounting, project management and psychology. St. Francis has been ranked nationally and regionally by Forbes magazine, Washington Monthly, Money magazine and U.S. News & World Report as one of the top baccalaureate colleges. St. Francis is set in an urban environment and is considered a commuter college. As of 2015, there were 2,671 undergraduates (10% part-time) and 78 graduates (50% part-time). The student to faculty ratio is 17:1 and 55.9% of classes have 20 or fewer students. The 2,749 students that attend St. Francis College come from over 80 countries. St. Francis College has been ranked by the New York Times and Forbes as one of the more diverse colleges in the United States.