- St. Joe’s switches the bookstore to Barnes & Noble College.
- James Maguire ’58 and his wife Frances donate $50 million to St. Joe’s, the largest gift in university history. The money helped raise the university’s endowment and has aided in scholarships and programs for students.
- The Barnes Foundation files a petition to the Philadelphia Orphans’ Court requesting court approval to create an educational affiliation with St. Joe’s.
- The Philadelphia Eagles win their first Super Bowl, defeating the New England Patriots 41-33.
- Attorney and political commentator Angela Rye speaks at St. Joe’s as part of her “Work Woke Tour” during the Center for Inclusion and Diversity’s Black History Month event.
- Jill Bodensteiner, J.D., is hired as St. Joe’s athletic director, replacing Don DiJulia, who retired after a 35-year career as athletic director at St. Joe’s.
- U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia, closes out the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at St. Joe’s and speaks to about 1,000 students, faculty, staff and visitors in Hagan Arena.
- T-Pain performs in Hagan Arena for the 2018 Spring Concert.
- As part of the Evelyn S. and Anthony M. ’60 Carfagno Lecture Series, then former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gives a speech in Hagan Arena to an audience of approximately 3,000 people.
- St. Joe’s officially announces the formation of a new professional school: the School of Health Studies and Education, scheduled to open in fall 2019.
- The completely student-run Saxbys cafe opens in Campion Student Center.
- Students create a petition to hire a full-time OBGYN at the Student Health Center on Oct. 16. The petition reaches over 1,000 signatures by Oct. 25.
- An armed intruder shouting anti-Semitic slurs kills 11 people in the Tree of Life Congregation synagogue. In a show of solidarity with the victims, the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations holds an interreligious service for St. Joe’s community members in front of the “Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time” sculpture.
- St. Joe’s students lead a silent sit-in on Dec. 7 during a Board of Trustees meeting to protest the administration’s response to racism on campus. The protest leads to a meeting with University President Mark C. Reed, Ed.D.
- Phil Martelli, head coach of the men’s basketball team for 24 years, is fired.
- Billy Lange, former Philadelphia 76ers assistant coach, is named head coach of the St. Joe’s men’s basketball team.
- Jill Bodensteiner, J.D., director of athletics, announces that men’s basketball student season tickets would be free starting in fall 2019
- Condoleezza Rice, Ph.D., former U.S. secretary of state, discusses international and domestic policy during a moderated discussion in Hagan Arena.
- St. Joe’s housekeeping staff hold an on-campus protest for higher wages.
- University administration holds a campuswide forum in Hagan Arena to address the semester’s four reported bias incidents. Classes are canceled and roughly 1,800 community members attend.
- Kobe Bryant, former Lower Merion High School basketball standout, dies in a tragic helicopter crash.
- Nicole Stokes, Ph.D., is appointed as associate provost for diversity, equity and inclusion, which was vacant since June 2018, after a lengthy search process.
- St. Joe’s spring concert is canceled after 24 years.
- The Day of Dialogue, an event intended to promote conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion, takes place throughout St. Joe’s campus. The program was held in response to racist incidents that occured on campus the previous semester.
- St. Joe’s shifts classes online for the remainder of the semester due to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
- Students return to campus on Aug. 24 for the first time since its closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.
- Students endure an unprecedented first day of school and juggle mixed modality schedules of in-person, hybrid, hyflex and online courses.
- On the first day of school, the university announces that campus-arrival testing, which had previously been recommended, is now mandatory.
- Good Uncle, an independent food delivery service division of Aramark, becomes available to St. Joe’s students.
- The university enhances its contact tracing measures to deal with the increase in COVID-19 related cases on campus.
- Two days after the Oct. 26 killing of Walter Wallace Jr. by Philadelphia police while Wallace was experiencing a mental health crisis, a group of St. Joe’s students and faculty organize a gathering on Villiger Lawn to speak out against racial injustice.
- The university announces a revised event, led by faculty and administrators, titled “SJU Response to Justice for Walter Wallace Jr.” The event was also moved indoors to the Chapel of St. Joseph.
- Four days after the polls closed, Joe Biden is elected the 46th president of the U.S. on Nov. 7. His running mate, former Sen. Kamala Harris of California, is the first woman, first Black person and first Asian American to serve as vice president.
- St. Joe’s students, faculty and staff are now able to select their chosen name, gender identification and gender pronouns to be displayed across most official university systems.
- St. Joe’s signs a letter of intent to evaluate a merger with the University of the Sciences.
- The university announces an on-campus and in-person 2021 commencement ceremony.
- Derek Chauvin is convicted on April 20 of killing George Floyd. The verdict found Chauvin guilty of one count of second-degree murder, one count of third-degree murder and one count of second-degree manslaughter.
- St. Joe’s offers students, faculty, staff and contractors the opportunity to be vaccinated on campus on May 4 and May 25.
