| The Franklin Residential College infuses intellectual
and cultural life into the residential experience of our students,
all of whom are arts and sciences majors.
The formal launch of the academic year at the FRC is convocation,
which is on the Tuesday each year following move-in. During
move-in, we host a barbeque dinner for our students and
those helping them move in. At convocation, held in 2007
at the Georgia Museum of Art, we will review the past year
and preview the coming year and have a light dinner, joined
by several of our faculty fellows. Included within orientation
week, we have the organizational meeting for all committees Click
here for more information on the committees.
Among our regular events, we have weekly dean’s teas, inviting
our fellows and a range of guests to the FRC to meet with
interested students in an informal setting. Our array of
activities at the FRC also includes our social service program.
In addition, each Thursday at 6p at Snelling Dining Commons
at FRC has dean’s table, inviting everyone in the community
to meet for a meal.
The FRC also has a performing arts series, with the dean
and his wife hosting a dinner for six students at their
apartment at Rutherford Hall and then going as a group to
a performance at the Fine Arts Theatre or Hodgson Hall.
We also have an annual exhibit of the artistic work of our
students.
The FRC has annual study and service trips to the UGA Marine
Institute at Sapelo Island and to the Ecolodge and Research
Station at San Luis in Costa Rica. Both are led by the
FRC dean and his wife. The Sapelo visit is scheduled over
Fall Break, with us departing on Thursday morning, October
25 and returning Sunday afternoon, October 28 in 2007. The
FRC covers all expenses for those participating and in exchange
for the hospitality of those at the Marine Institute, our
group customarily completes a service project on Sunday
morning before departing. The Costa Rica trip, which is
connected with a two-credit seminar, is over Spring Break,
March 8-15 in 2007. The program fee, which is approximately
$1000, covers airfare and food and rooms in Costa Rica.
Tuition is additional, but covered by HOPE for eligible
students.
We began improving the Dyer Library at the FRC in 2004,
adding to the collections, painting the walls, and renewing
the furnishings. The library continues to be a point of
emphasis at the FRC.
The FRC and Preston Residential College at the University of South Carolina have initiated a relationship that includes regular exchanges.
In addition, the FRC has dedicated sections of freshman composition for our students and two freshman seminars, one on the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine and the other on the meaning of college football.
Finally, we have a wide range of social events, both major
and more modest. Click
here for a complete schedule of
our activities and events at the FRC.
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