Presentations and Awards

Franklin Ranked an OEDb 2008 Online College "Top 20"

Franklin University was ranked in the top 20 of the Online Education Database (OEDb) 2008 Online College Rankings. These rankings, produced by OEDb, a database of accredited online education programs, are based on data from eight metrics:

Acceptance Rate
Financial Aid
Graduation Rate
Peer Web Citations
Retention Rate
Scholarly Citations
Student-faculty Ratio
Years Accredited

Established in September 2006, OEDb: Online Education Database is an independent for-profit organization located in Houston, Texas, dedicated to building a comprehensive database of the top accredited online colleges and the degree programs that they offer.

Franklin Vantage MBA a "Top 40" Best Buy

Franklin University's Vantage MBA Program was awarded a 2008 Top 40 "Best Buy" designation by GetEducated.com, honoring regionally accredited online MBAs from U.S. graduate schools. This award, based on a review of 91 competing options nationwide, signifies that Franklin's MBA program has been reviewed and judged to offer a high-quality distance MBA to a national audience at tuition rates well below the national average. Franklin University is honored to be recognized for its contribution toward making quality education more accessible through innovative delivery methods coupled with fiscally responsive practices.

Franklin a "Best Buy"

Franklin's distance Business Administration and Management Majors were awarded a 2006 Top 25 "Best Buy" designation by GetEducated.com. The biennial survey of 89 regionally accredited distance bachelor's degrees in business and management recognizes institutions that make quality education more accessible through innovative delivery methods coupled with fiscally responsible practices. Franklin earned the "Best Buy" designation by offering high-quality distance degrees to a nationwide audience at tuition rates well below the national average.

Established in 1989, GetEducated.com was the nation's first online counseling center for adult learners seeking accredited online degrees.

Franklin Faculty in the Community

Franklin prides itself on the excellent qualifications of its faculty members, who are leaders in their respective fields and dedicated to education. Many members of Franklin's faculty have made presentations, published articles, or made notable contributions to the community including:

Dr. Terry A. Boyd (Graduate Studies Division Chair) was re-elected as President of the Columbus City School Board in November 2007.

Michelle Buchberger (General Education Lead Faculty) presented her paper "John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman & Reinterpreting Realism" at the North East Modern Languages Association (NEMLA) annual conference in Baltimore and the Midwest Modern Languages Associate Conference in Cleveland, Ohio.

Phyllis Duryee (Global Cultures Lead Faculty) and Pat McCann (Statistics and Computer Competency Lead Faculty) delivered their presentation "Adjunct Faculty Development in the Online Environment" at the Sloan-C International Conference in Online Learning in Orlando, Fla.

Dr. Ray Forbes (MBA Faculty) - published an article titled "Whole-Brain Coaching and the Merlin Effect: Lessons from Advancing Neuroscience" in the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations.

Dr. Ronald L. Hartung (Computer& Information Sciences Division Chair and Master of Science in Computer Science Program Chair) presented a paper at the Agent and Multi-agent Systems: Technologies and Applications Second KES International Symposium (KES-AMSTA 2008) in Incheon, Korea. He collaborated with Dr. Anne Hakanssonn of Uppsala University (Sweden) on "An Approach to Event-Driven Algorith for Meta-Agents in a Multi-Agent System" and "Using Meta-Agents to Reason with Multiple Ontologies."

Dr. Garry McDaniel (MBA Faculty) made a presentation titled "Leadership and Ethics" at the 2007 Global Business Ethics International Symposium and Teaching Workshop in Madrid, Spain. He also served as a guest lecturer at the Non-Profit Leadership Management Institute in Austin, Texas, speaking with non-profit executive directors on the topic of Leadership Transformational Change.

Dr. Michael Posey (Organizational Communication Program Chair) made his presentation "The Dos and Don'ts of Implementing a Technology-Based Course Manager System" to the League for Innovation at the Community College Conference on Information Technology in Nashville, Tenn.

Dr. Douglas Ross (Master of Science in Marketing & Communication Program Chair) was awarded the 2008 Outstanding Marketing Educator by the American Marketing Association (AMA). His nomination was based upon his contributions to the marketing field through his work at Franklin as well as his contributions to the Professional Certified Marketer Preparation Course that the Columbus AMA holds each year. In addition to being named the 2008 recipient, Ross is the only winner to be given this award more than once, having been honored with this designation a record three times in the past twelve years (1996, 2005, and 2008).

Dr. Ross also received the 2006 AIM Award by the central Ohio chapter of the American Marketing Association for his "Out of the Box" entry, Faces of Franklin. Ross created a dynamic marketing art exhibit to raise awareness among central Ohio students about how record enrollment growth - particularly online growth - has changed the face of Franklin University.

Dr. Gary Stroud (Undergraduate Business Studies Division Chair) made a presentation titled "Bilking But Being Ethical" at the Second International Conference of the International Center for Corporate Accountability in New York City.

Dr. Yi Yang (Instructional Design) presented her paper "Using Quality Benchmarks to Measure Students' Perceptions of Online Course Quality" at ED-MEDIA, the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications, in Vancouver, Canada.

Success Path: Dynamic Strategies for Mapping Educational Outcomes
In response to a challenge from Franklin's Chief Academic Officer Dr. Christopher Washington, Michelle Buchberger and Dr. Yi Yang developed Success Path, a visual, color-coded interface that facilitates the creation of a visual "pathway" for each major at the University. The Success Path presentation shows how a simple approach to data management can result in a useful tool. Buchberger and Yang presented Success Path at the Campus Technology 2007 Winter Conference for Technology Leadership in Practice in San Francisco.

For a complete list, view our Faculty Profiles.