Franklin College’s 2022 Commencement took place on Saturday, May 21 in Spurlock Center Gymnasium on the Franklin College campus. The event was also livestreamed on the college’s website.
The top five majors of the graduating class were business, exercise science, biology, psychology, and history. The college conferred 172 undergraduate degrees and 31 graduate degrees.
Jamie P. Merisotis, president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, delivered the commencement address, and was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters during the ceremony.
The senior class speaker was Brynne E. Newland, a resident of Bloomington, who majored in elementary education and minored in Spanish and English as a new language. Newland plans to return to Bloomington to teach this fall.
Preceding commencement, on May 20 Rev. Troy Jackson, Ph.D., a 1991 alumnus of the college, gave the baccalaureate address and received an honorary doctorate of divinity degree from the college. Jackson is the co-founder of Undivided and the state strategies director for Faith in Action.
Graduates from Hamilton County include:
- Austin Brayden Boyer, of Noblesville, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business (management).
- Nicholas James Burk, of Cicero, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology.
- Benjamin Wesley Burton, of Fishers, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry.
- Claire Elizabeth Castillo, of Fishers, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in public relations.
- Matthew Richard Crandley, of Carmel, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business (management).
- Brooke Ann Haflich, of Noblesville, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education.
- Brittany Ann Spaulding, of Carmel, earned a Master of Science degree in physician assistant studies.
- Tanner Young Swindle, of Sheridan, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in exercise science.