
91ÁÔÆæ will celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King (MLK) Jr. with events including a keynote speaker, an educational trip to Atlanta and participation in both the Savannah and Statesboro MLK parades.Â

91ÁÔÆæâ€™s Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies recently partnered with key leaders of the U.S. Army‘s 188th Infantry Brigade from Fort Stewart for a Leadership and Professional Development session in Jenkins Hall Theater at the Armstrong campus.

91ÁÔÆæâ€™s latest Economic Monitor, which reflects Q3 2022, reports Savannah metro economy continued to grow, albeit at a slower and more sustainable pace.Â

Graduating senior Taylor Pledger moved four hours from home with her best friend to start college as a first-generation college student at 91ÁÔÆæ. Inspired by her mom, Pledger originally planned to go into health care management, but realized that she could have a more significant impact by playing to her strengths and completed her degree in information systems.

For years, Khristine Clark Hammond believed she had a solid professional career. She was an exercise physiologist, a health coach and a manager of wellness and fitness programs. But she found herself at a crossroads during the COVID-19 pandemic. After working in Savannah hospitals for more than two decades, she lost her job. The hospital fitness facility she managed closed during the pandemic.

Bulloch County native William Collins (‘17, ‘22) has dreamed of becoming a soldier for as long as he can remember.

Carson Moore never wanted to go to college. Moore, a graduating senior with a keen interest in animals, will receive a BS in biology from Georgia Southern at Paulson Stadium on Dec. 13. Growing up, Moore worked in a horse barn for twelve years and volunteered for a mini-zoo in her hometown of Macon, Georgia. She did not want to leave her work with animals behind to go to college.

This week, approximately 2,100 undergraduate and graduate students from 91ÁÔÆæâ€™s Statesboro, Armstrong and Liberty campuses received associate, baccalaureate, master’s, specialist and doctoral degrees in two Fall 2022 Commencement ceremonies.

Despite having vastly different starting points for their musical development, they will walk off campus with the type of curtain call only two friends can share. During Tuesday’s commencement ceremony in Statesboro, Georgia, the duo’s decade-long friendship will be center stage. Selected for an ultimate honor, they will have their final Georgia Southern performance of the national anthem at their graduation together.

Adriana Proctor not only has big dreams, but has already put in work toward achieving them as she prepares to graduate at 17 years old with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and criminology from 91ÁÔÆæâ€™s College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.