Savannah State University News

  Savannah State University’s College of Business Administration (COBA) is hosting the Tiger’s Den Business Pitch Competition, an event to allow student entrepreneurs with developing business enterprises or business concepts the chance to win $1,500 in seed money to scale their ideas. The competition will be held on Monday, April 4 at 5 p.m. in the Torian Auditorium located in the Howard Jordan COBA building, 3219 College St. The event is open to the public and there is no cost to attend. Sponsors for the inaugural Tiger’s Den Business Pitch include: Savannah Economic Development Authority, SCORE and the Distinct Tax Consulting Group. For months prior to the competition, students worked with professionals from SCORE, the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, to help them gain valuable skills in planning, launching and operating their own businesses. Competition participants were required to attend developmental workshops with SCORE mentors and submit ...

Savannah State University students outside the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Georgia at the historic Ahmaud Arbery trial and Pastors’ Rally on November 18, 2021. From left: Professor Vicki Brown, Beyoncé Gordon, Calypso Silvey, Myles Jenkins, Danielle Kiser, Jayden Moore, Kiara Morris, Brooklyn Clay, Reanna Haynes, Francisco Arraut, Alonzo McKinney, Eden Turner, Vernon Bell, Kalel X. Akins, Justice Stanley, JaMichael Baldwin, and Damien Bryant. Photo credit: SSU Instructor Jason Miccolo Johnson.  Savannah State University's Department of Journalism and Mass Communications will unveil a photography exhibition featuring a collection of photographs captured during the historic Ahmaud Arbery state trial in Brunswick, Georgia at a special event to be held Saturday, April 2. Free and open to the public, the event will take place at 1 p.m. in Whiting Hall on the campus of the university, 3219 College St. The exhibition consists of 32 photographs taken outside the Glynn Count...

Savannah State University’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), has partnered with SCORE, the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, to help students gain valuable skills in planning, launching and operating their own businesses. Six local business people from the SCORE network will mentor students throughout March culminating in a business pitch competition later this spring. “We are grateful for the relationship with SCORE and the valuable expertise they are sharing with our students,” said Nicole Cannonier, Ph.D., Savannah State University’s associate professor of management. “It is an enriching partnership, one which provides students the one-on-one attention of a mentor and the resources to make business ownership a reality, even before they graduate.” The highly-skilled SCORE team is organized with each mentor focused on a different business area including marketing and public relations, sales, operations, strategy and planning, business ...

Echoing the historical words of Savannah State University's (SSU) first president, Richard R. Wright Sr., "Tell them we are rising," this month's theme for women's history is "Tell Them She is Rising." SSU will spotlight the dynamic women hard at work at the University by the Sea. These SSU SHEroes are the fabric of our campus and community. Kimberly Ballard-Washington, J.D. President, Savannah State University Savannah State University President Kimberly Ballard-Washington was born and raised in Montezuma, Georgia. President Ballard-Washington received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Georgia. She earned her Juris Doctorate at Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law, where she was a leader in the Black Law Students Association and the Student Bar Association. To date, President Ballard-Washington is the only person to have led all three of Georgia’s public Historically Black Colleges and Universities. President Balla...