Kevin Franklin
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Kevin Franklin, EdD was born in Virginia
, where he received degrees in Psychology
and Education
from Old Dominion University
. He holds a Doctorate
of Education in Organization
and Leadership
from the University of San Francisco
. Formerly Executive Director of the University of California
system-wide Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and Deputy Director of the University of California San Diego Supercomputer Center
(SDSC), Franklin was appointed as Executive Director of the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, Research Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, Adjunct Associate Professor, African American Studies
, and Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
at the University of Illinois in July 2007.
Franklin is a principal co-founder of the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory
(HASTAC) and founder of the HASSgrid, a distributed Cyberinfrastructure
supporting humanities
, arts
and social sciences
data preservation
and archives. Franklin is co-chair of the HASS Research Group for the Open Grid Forum
(OGF), a member of the Worldwide University Network Grid Advisory Board, a member of the California State University, Los Angeles College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology Advisory Board and a member of the joint National Science Foundation TeraGrid Science Advisory Board. In May 2007, Franklin co-guest edited Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch for the issue "Socializing Cyberinfrastructure: Networking the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences". Franklin is also the HASS Editor for Grid Today and HPCWire.
In addition to his United States
HASS Cyberinfrastructure
work, Franklin leads a number of international research activities including the Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas (ARTCA) which he founded in 2007. He is a Special Advisor to the Costa Rica-United States Foundation (CRUSA) and the Centro Nacional de Alta Technologia (CeNat).
Franklin began his academic career teaching and coaching at San Francisco State University
where he also directed the Urban Scholars Minority Student Outreach Program and was a Senior Fellow in the San Francisco Urban Institute. Dr. Franklin served as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors and Interim Executive Director for Summerbridge National (Currently named Breakthrough Collaborative
) and he was a founder of the San Francisco Boys and Girls Club Project Discover Program and a co-founder of the TEAMS AmeriCorps Fellowship Program
In recognition for his work in education reform and founding of the Multicultural Alliance, a National Minority Teacher Fellowship program involving more than 400 k-12 schools and universities and more than 5000 teacher interns across the United States, Franklin received Old Dominion University
Distinguished Alumni Award in 1996 and the Columbia University
Teachers College Klingenstein Center Leadership Award in 1997. Dr. Franklin was named one of the Top 12 People to Watch in 2010 in Supercomputing by HPCwire
Profiles on Dr. Franklin and his work have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, United Airlines
Hemispheres
magazine, Essence
, CNN
, NPR
, and Black Issues in Higher Education among others. Dr. Franklin has raised more than $70 million dollars in support of research and education programs.
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
, where he received degrees in Psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
and Education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
from Old Dominion University
Old Dominion University
Old Dominion University is a state university located in Norfolk, Virginia, United States, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools...
. He holds a Doctorate
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
of Education in Organization
Organization
An organization is a social group which distributes tasks for a collective goal. The word itself is derived from the Greek word organon, itself derived from the better-known word ergon - as we know `organ` - and it means a compartment for a particular job.There are a variety of legal types of...
and Leadership
Leadership
Leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task". Other in-depth definitions of leadership have also emerged.-Theories:...
from the University of San Francisco
University of San Francisco
The University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of...
. Formerly Executive Director of the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
system-wide Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and Deputy Director of the University of California San Diego Supercomputer Center
San Diego Supercomputer Center
The San Diego Supercomputer Center is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego . Physically, SDSC is located on the east end of Eleanor Roosevelt College on the campus of UCSD....
(SDSC), Franklin was appointed as Executive Director of the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, Research Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, Adjunct Associate Professor, African American Studies
African American studies
African American studies is a subset of Black studies or Africana studies. It is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans...
, and Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is an American state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances science and engineering. NCSA operates as a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but it provides high-performance...
at the University of Illinois in July 2007.
Franklin is a principal co-founder of the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory
HASTAC
is a virtual organization of over 7000 individuals and institutions inspired by the possibilities that new technologies offer for shaping how society learns, teaches, communicates, creates, and organizes at the local and global levels...
(HASTAC) and founder of the HASSgrid, a distributed Cyberinfrastructure
Cyberinfrastructure
United States federal research funders use the term cyberinfrastructure to describe research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services distributed over...
supporting humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
, arts
ARts
aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
and social sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
data preservation
Preservation (library and archival science)
Preservation is a branch of library and information science concerned with maintaining or restoring access to artifacts, documents and records through the study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of decay and damage....
and archives. Franklin is co-chair of the HASS Research Group for the Open Grid Forum
Open Grid Forum
The Open Grid Forum is a community of users, developers, and vendors for standardization of grid computing. It was formed in 2006 in a merger of the Global Grid Forum and the Enterprise Grid Alliance. The OGSA, OGSI, and JSDL standards were created by the OGF...
(OGF), a member of the Worldwide University Network Grid Advisory Board, a member of the California State University, Los Angeles College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology Advisory Board and a member of the joint National Science Foundation TeraGrid Science Advisory Board. In May 2007, Franklin co-guest edited Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch for the issue "Socializing Cyberinfrastructure: Networking the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences". Franklin is also the HASS Editor for Grid Today and HPCWire.
In addition to his United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
HASS Cyberinfrastructure
Cyberinfrastructure
United States federal research funders use the term cyberinfrastructure to describe research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services distributed over...
work, Franklin leads a number of international research activities including the Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas (ARTCA) which he founded in 2007. He is a Special Advisor to the Costa Rica-United States Foundation (CRUSA) and the Centro Nacional de Alta Technologia (CeNat).
Franklin began his academic career teaching and coaching at San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...
where he also directed the Urban Scholars Minority Student Outreach Program and was a Senior Fellow in the San Francisco Urban Institute. Dr. Franklin served as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors and Interim Executive Director for Summerbridge National (Currently named Breakthrough Collaborative
Breakthrough Collaborative
Breakthrough Collaborative is the umbrella organization of a collaborative of programs across the United States and in Hong Kong that aim to affect positive change in urban schools...
) and he was a founder of the San Francisco Boys and Girls Club Project Discover Program and a co-founder of the TEAMS AmeriCorps Fellowship Program
In recognition for his work in education reform and founding of the Multicultural Alliance, a National Minority Teacher Fellowship program involving more than 400 k-12 schools and universities and more than 5000 teacher interns across the United States, Franklin received Old Dominion University
Old Dominion University
Old Dominion University is a state university located in Norfolk, Virginia, United States, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools...
Distinguished Alumni Award in 1996 and the Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
Teachers College Klingenstein Center Leadership Award in 1997. Dr. Franklin was named one of the Top 12 People to Watch in 2010 in Supercomputing by HPCwire
Profiles on Dr. Franklin and his work have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, United Airlines
United Airlines
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Hemispheres
Hemispheres (magazine)
Hemispheres, the onboard magazine for United Airlines and Continental Airlines. With a readership of approximately 7 million per month, Hemispheres ranks as the most-honored inflight magazine in the U.S., having won more prestigious awards than any other....
magazine, Essence
Essence (magazine)
Essence is a monthly magazine for African-American women between the ages of 18 and 49. The magazine covers fashion, lifestyle and beauty with an intimate girlfriend-to-girlfriend tone.-History:...
, CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, NPR
NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
, and Black Issues in Higher Education among others. Dr. Franklin has raised more than $70 million dollars in support of research and education programs.