Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

Type	Public
Established	1801
Dean	Dr. Alan T. Dorsey
Location	Athens, Georgia, Georgia, USA
Website	www.franklin.uga.edu

The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences is the founding college of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia, United States. The college was named in honor of Benjamin Franklin.^[1] Today, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences comprises 30 departments in five divisions: fine arts, social sciences, biological sciences, physical and mathematical sciences, and the humanities.

History

Old College located on the historic North Campus at the University of Georgia

The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences first opened in 1801 as Franklin College, it remained the sole college until 1859 when the University Board of Trustees reorganized the University and created three additional colleges specifically focused on Law, Applied Mathematics, Civil Engineering, and Agriculture.^[2]

From that point it was known as the Franklin College of Liberal Arts, then later as Franklin College of Arts and Sciences as the University expanded over the years.^[3]

Classes were taught first taught on what is present-day North Campus. The first permanent brick building on campus was the Franklin College. Now renamed "Old College," the building a Georgian brick structure built in 1806, houses the offices for the Dean of Franklin College. The building is patterned after a building at Yale University (Abraham Baldwin, the University's first president was a Yale alumnus) and is the oldest surviving building at the University and in Athens, Georgia.^[4]^[5]

Franklin College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest and largest college at the University of Georgia.

Accolades and honors

The College is home to forty-nine American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows, four American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellows, fifteen Fulbright Scholars, a Grammy Award winner, three Guggenheim Fellows, four members of the National Academy of Sciences, seventeen National Science Foundation CAREER award recipients, two Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers recipients and nine Regents’ Professors.

All six of the University of Georgia’s Marshall Scholarship recipients were Franklin college students.^[6]

Deans

From 1977-1988 William J. (Jack) Payne
From 1992-2004 Wyatt Anderson
From 2004–2011 Garnett S. Stokes
From 2011–2012 Hugh Ruppersburg, interim
From 2012–present Alan T. Dorsey

Notes

↑ "History of the Franklin". University of Georgia. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
↑ Reed, Thomas Walter (c. 1949). "History of the University of Georgia". University of Georgia. p. 656. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
↑ Reed. "History of the University of Georgia". p. 3020. Retrieved 2007-12-23.
↑ http://www.architects.uga.edu/planning/sustainable-design/old-college
↑ "About the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences". University of Georgia. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
↑ "Faculty: Franklin Fast Facts". University of Georgia. Retrieved 17 February 2013.

References

Reed, Thomas Walter (c. 1949). History of the University of Georgia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia.
"UNDERGRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL DEGREES OFFERED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA". Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia.

External links

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