Vice President for Administration

CLAUD FLYTHE, D.A.

Vice President for Administration

SavannahStateUniversity

Savannah, Georgia

Dr. Claud Flythe is the Vice President for Administration at Savannah State University (SSU) located in Savannah, Georgia. In this position, he oversees SSU’s public safety, plant operations, and athletics programs. He is also responsible for ensuring the effective development, implementation, and administration of SSU’s public safety policies and emergency management program.

Prior to joining SSU, Dr. Flythe served in several capacities at VirginiaStateUniversity including chief of staff and vice president for Student Affairs, a position he held for 10 years. In 2004, he came out of retirement to serve as special assistant to the president and vice president for Student Affairs at ShawUniversity (his undergraduate alma mater) for 2 years.

Dr. Flythe earned his D.A., magna cum laude, from the School of Education, Health, Physical Education and Recreation Sciences (HPERS) at MiddleTennesseeUniversity in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He holds an M.S. in HPERS from IndianaUniversity in Bloomington, Indiana. Dr.Flythe attended the World Conference on Quality Education at Exeter College of Oxford University in Oxford, England, in 2001. He also completed the Administrative Management Institute at CornellUniversity in Ithaca, New York.

SSU’s Emergency Management Program focuses on a fully integrated emergency management plan. The program’s mission is to provide an enhanced quality of university and campus life for faculty, staff, students, and campus visitors in a safe and secure environment. The program also fosters collaborative partnerships with internal and external university communities that promote cooperation, understanding, mutual respect, and a willingness to develop solution-driven strategies that concentrate on emergency preparedness throughout the campus and university.

Chartered by the State of Georgia in 1890 as a department of the StateUniversity for the education and training of Negro students, SSU now serves a diverse student population as a senior university of the University System of Georgia. SSU serves a primarily African-American student population, enriched by a diversity of traditional and nontraditional students from other countries, cultures, and races. The University’s mission is to graduate students prepared to perform at higher levels of economic productivity, social responsibility, and excellence in their chosen fields of endeavor in a changing global community. The educational goal is realized through program offerings in the College of Business Administration, the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, and the College of Sciences and Technology, which lead to baccalaureate and master’s degrees.

SSU, located in a coastal, urban, port city setting, serves residential and commuter students from diverse educational, geographical, and racial backgrounds. In a beautiful and unique setting of a live oak forest next to a salt marsh estuary, the University is well situated for the study of commercial, technological, environmental, and urban issues.

March 5, 2009