Welcome to Savannah State University’s Strategic Planning Web, a planning tool for the internal campus community. The purpose of this internal web site is to provide current and accurate institutional research data and other information, in accessible and usable archival format, for use by responsible strategic planning units and personnel located anywhere within the university.  Access is restricted to staff members of Savannah State University and to other responsible professionals by special arrangement.  This intra-net web site and its contents are not intended to be a part of the public domain.  Providing university information to the general public is the responsibility of the Office of Public Information.

Available in this web site are several types of information useful for planning purposes:

a. Raw data extracted from official university data bases, generally displayed in both table and graphic formats.
b. Findings and conclusions from specific studies, generally combining various data drawn directly from part a, above.
c. Formal documents and papers representing official university governance, policy, procedural, and operational statements.
d. Miscellaneous other documents and advice relating to institutional research, planning, and evaluation techniques.
e. Formal presentations to and about the SSU University community by the Office of Institutional Research Staff and/or others.
f.  Connecting links to other external data sources useful for strategic planning purposes in this region.
g. Links to a glossary of ideas and definitions pertinent to a concept being read lead from the concept to its discussion and back.

In using this site for planning, bear in mind several special peculiarities of this electronic "Strategic Fact Book" format:

a. The site is always under development; data and organization are subject to weekly change as errors may be discovered and/or new information is found to be relevant.

b. Raw data is presented here for the university as a whole, for each college or major division of the university, and for each formal academic program in the university.

c. In citing data or information from this site, a full citation should record the complete web address and date for any unique page on which it is located. (Updates to the web site will be placed on line weekly during the year and older versions will be kept in the IRP Office Data Warehouse for continued reference for a period of one calendar year.)

d. The tricky part of developing a useful web site is to maintain visual clues to location and avenues for advance and retreat that are intuitively sensible to users.   Watch our site as we experiment with various techniques to enable you, the user, to remain oriented.  (In using this site, if you have suggestions or ideas regarding its organization, navigation or substance, please do communicate them to the IRP office.)

e. Contents from any particular page may be downloaded or printed at will from your own computer, minimizing your need to collect great masses of paper from the IRP office in support of your strategic research, planning, and evaluation work.