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Time and space sometimes prevent coverage of all the great news that emerges throughout the magazine production cycle, but you can always find more details in the Campus News section of FranklinCollege.edu. Here are five things you ought to check out!

and genuinely need — and how colleges can best provide digital skills and literacy to all students. Rosner highlighted Franklin College’s digital fluency initiative and the efforts to embed tech skills across the curriculum in addition to working with employers to understand what skills graduates need to have as they enter the workforce. Besides Rosner, the other panelists were from San Jose State University, Morehouse College and the University of Florida.

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Randi Frye, assistant professor of art and department chair, had work selected for a juried art exhibit at Gallery 924 in Indianapolis this spring. The exhibit called #KeepIt500 featured Central Indiana contemporary artists who were part of a previous art initiative welcoming visitors and auto racing fans to the Circle City during the month of May. Frye’s screenprint, “Widowmaker,” shown above, has an augmented reality component. Try it out by using your smartphone camera and scanning the QR code. Frye joined the Franklin faculty in 2020 and brings expertise in visual communication design, illustration and interdisciplinary art, including animation and digital work. She earned a Bachelor of Science from Indiana Wesleyan University and a Master of Fine Arts from Syracuse University. J

Four Pulliam School of Journalism students were recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists as Mark of Excellence National Winners.

Eleven students on the Model U.N. Team earned the Outstanding Delegation Award at the National Model U.N. Conference in New York City.

Franklin’s Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies program was granted continued accreditation from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc.

For the 10th consecutive year, Franklin College earned conservation recognition from the Arbor Day Foundation.

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In June, the College rolled out an academic summer camp called CampGRIZ for youth entering sixth – ninth grade this fall.