Concord University

Faculty are friendly but often play favorites and treat students unequally. Favorite students are graded with less rigor and provided opportunities that other students are not. Some faculty make exceptions on assignments to make it easier for those favorite students with less ability and intent to do quality work to get a passing grade. This is not only due to favoritism and unethical behavior on the faculty's part, but is also due to the fact that faculty are extremely afraid to fail deserving students because their positions could be eliminated. The Administration creates and maintains a toxic work environment in which staff and faculty are often at each other's throats due to constant budget cuts and the ongoing threat of losing their jobs or having their department eliminated. The President and her cronies hate the faculty and most of the staff and treats them like they are completely disposable. The Administration, led by a President who received a vote of no confidence 10 years ago, continuously eliminates faculty and programs to pay for their own outrageous salaries, buy off certain staff and faculty to do their dirty work for them, garner support and complacency for administrative cruelty and corruption, and pay for expensive administrative blunders and failures. The administration also spends millions on pro university propaganda and misinformation to attract students and falsify their public image in a positive light, which all students quickly realize is mostly all lies after being on campus for only a few weeks. Students are simply viewed as units that represents tens of thousands of dollars in revenue over a 4 yr period that the admin needs to fund their internal profiteering operation, their propaganda and misinformation campaigns, and to maintain their authoritarian power and control. Ethical faculty and departments with academic integrity who do not play along or who are not complacent to Administrative corruption, cruelty, and incompetence, most often leave the university. Those that stay are most often targeted by the admin and eliminated unless they file and win a law suit, which does occur with some frequency. Since most good faculty leave or are targeted and eliminated, most courses are dummied down so badly that even practically illiterate students can pass and even obtain As with minimal effort. Those students that can't even put in the minimum effort are often just given a minimum passing grade and pushed through to graduation. Academic quality is more on a junior high school level than any other college or university, and anyone who puts in just an average effort at Concord can graduate with honors even though they will not have much of a quality education or have any real useful qualifications in their field after graduation. This is one reason so many Concord graduates go on to work at Concord (i.e. the ones that leave positive reviews on this site). The other reasons of course are nepotism and paying off parents of donors by hiring their children, who again are incompetent because they graduated from Concord. These people often end up as top administrators and sometimes faculty at Concord since they couldn't get a job at any other college or university or anywhere else for that matter.

5th Year Male -- Class 1922

Faculty Accessibility: B-, Social Life: F

Concord resembles an internal colony of locals that just exploit the University for their own personal gain. Programs, instruction, and student life are consistently cut and quality compromised to fund the crazy extravagant salaries of the President and her cronies from the local area. There are some good faculty and some decent programs, but these are constantly being defunded and struggle due to constant budget cuts and bullying by the President and upper admin. Since the vast majority of funding goes to pay admin salaries and fund many failing pet projects of the President and local partners who have, and continue to, profit from these projects, faculty are severely underpaid and end up competing with and backstabbing each other in their constant fight over the crumbs in funding left over after so much corruption, waste, and fraud by the admin. This creates a toxic environment that is not conducive for learning and student development although many faculty and staff do well by covering this up and faking it, mainly due to the constant threat of losing their jobs or having their program cut. Students who go to Concord quickly realize within a few months that most of what they were told about the school by admissions counselors were complete misrepresentations or outright lies. A good example of this is that students are told that the campus has a swimming pool and all sorts of recreational and fitness opportunities all of which the President defunded and closed down years ago when she received a vote of no confidence. The President and her loyal cronies, most of which are from the local area, are completely irresponsible and spend more money and effort blaming anyone and everyone for the multitude of problems on campus than trying to fix them. Anyone who tries to actually fix any problems are targeted for bullying, abuse, and eventual elimination. This has resulted in so many great faculty and programs being eliminated and replaced with failing programs and incompetent faculty that are admin loyalists from the local area. Most of these faculty never taught on any level, never worked in the real world, and have no professional training or qualifications except getting degrees from Concord and working as students in offices on campus. A good example of this is the MSW program in which the program director and three of his best friends simply got faculty positions after just being Concord students, working on campus in the grant office, never actually did any social work in the real world, and never taught a single class on any level at all before teaching on the graduate level. The director and his friends are from Athens and the surrounding area, which is how they obtained their positions. Competent instruction, ethics, and academic rigor is not important at Concord. The University will accept any student that applies, and most faculty just hand out passing grades for any work turned in regardless of quality in order to keep students enrolled so the admin doesn't cut their programs or fire them due to financial loss. Since student life is of no importance at all to the President and her cronies, there is nothing to do on campus besides play video games, drink, and smoke pot. Sexual assaults in dorms, stalking, and even gang rapes have occurred and are quickly covered up. The campus police are ineffective, lazy, irresponsible, racist, bullies who spend most of their time hastling students when they are not putting up parking cones or setting in their offices. The food on campus is terrible and students often get sick from eating in the cafeteria due to poor food handling and cleanliness practices. Computers and classroom technology is outdated and not maintained, constantly breaking down and not being repaired. Meanwhile the President and her cronies keep giving themselves raises to pad their 6 figure salaries while enrollment and overall institutional quality on every level consistently declines as it has for the past 11 years.

4th Year Male -- Class 1922

Collaboration/Competitive: A, Useful Schoolwork: F

The Faculty voted no confidence in the President, and then the board turned right around and offered her a 5 year extended contact.

1st Year Male -- Class 1920

Education Quality: A, Social Life: F