The nearly 160 FRC students live at historic Rutherford Hall on the Myers Quad with a faculty member and his family, and interact regularly with 30 or so Franklin College of Arts and Sciences faculty associated with the residential college.

Our students apply for a space at the FRC.  We admit students each Spring interested in and committed to participating in the active intellectual, cultural, and social life of the only residential college at UGA.  The FRC is open to students majoring or minoring in one of the 30 Franklin College of Arts and Sciences departments or schools and includes first year students through seniors

J. Douglas Toma, who is an associate professor at the Institute of Higher Education and also teaches at the law school, is the FRC dean.  He and his wife, Linda, who is assistant dean for external affairs at Franklin College, and their five-year-old son, Jack, have lived at the FRC since April, 2004.

Franklin College of Arts and Sciences faculty from across its 30 departments are affiliated with the FRC.  The faculty fellows are the core of the FRC community, joining us for our major events, giving occasional talks on a topic of their choosing, and otherwise participating and the life of the college.

• Meg Amstutz, English (Chief of Staff to the President)
• Brechtje Bueker, Germanic and Slavic Studies
• Jeff Broome, Art
• Craig Caldwell, History
• Brooke Campbell, Women’s Studies
• Sharon Claffey, Psychology
• Joe Crim, Cellular Biology (Associate Vice President, Instruction)
• Brian Drake, History
• Daniel Farnham, Philosophy
• Michelle Garfield, History (Associate Dean, Franklin College)
• Ian Hagarty, Art
• Ben Jones, Mathematics
• Megan Knowles, Psychology
• Yujie Julia Li, Art Education
• Chuck Kutal, Chemistry (Associate Dean, Franklin College)
• Keith Langston, Germanic and Slavic Studies
• Loris Magnani, Astronomy
• Rodney Mauricio, Genetics
• Christopher Morphew, Institute of Higher Education (Co-Director, Franklin Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows)
• Karin Myhre, Comparative Literature
• Jed Rasula, English
• Hugh Ruppersburg, English (Associate Dean, Franklin College)
• Siyuan Steven Liu, Drama and Theatre
• Zoe Stamatopoulou, Classics
• Michelle vanDellen, Psychology
• Paula Warrington, English
• Scott Weintraub, Romance Languages
• Jean Martin Williams, Music
• Montgomery Wolf, History

Finally, a coordinator, Tanya Kooi, works with the dean on the administration of the residential college, as does the residence hall director for the Myers Community, David Berland.  Mark Whitesel, area coordinator, is our primary liaison with housing, and Michelle Garfield, the former FRC dean, serves that role with Franklin College.