Display 0111:  SSU's Purpose & Positioning Statement

Welcoming students from diverse backgrounds to a university with a proud heritage and more than one century of achievement and service, Savannah State University now looks forward to the challenges of technological innovation and globalization. The university challenges its students with an academic experience that will help them to achieve their career goals, to maximize their potentials, to become good citizens, and to be agents of change. The curriculum and degree programs reflect the goals, values and mission of the university. Recognizing that learning is a life long experience, its continuing education programs and distance learning programs reach out beyond the campus. Its research and community service programs serve the regional community and the world. Its dedicated faculty, its intellectually invigorating curriculum, its student centered services, its African American heritage, its community and public service activities, and its beautiful and historic campus all combine to provide the experiences, knowledge, and skills necessary for success.

—Source: SACS Self Study, 2000