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Concord University has long been committed to improving student access and completion, particularly for low income and first-generation students in rural Appalachia. We provide generous scholarship opportunities which help make higher education more accessible.
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Psychology Major with Business Administration minor
Taylor Brown is a Concord University senior from Glen Fork, WV. She is majoring in Psychology and minoring in Business Administration with an emphasis in Management. She is highly active on campus. Taylor participates in various clubs and activities and is the President of the Honors Student Advisory Council. Her future aspiration is to earn a Ph.D. in Psychology, and become a professor at a liberal arts college.
Taylor Brown
Psychology Major with Business Administration minor
Dr. Michael Bean
Assistant Professor of Education
Dr. George Williams '11
Assistant Professor of English / Director of Veteran Services
Josie Crawford '24
Biology Major with Biomedical Sciences Emphasis
Assistant Professor of Business
Dr. Allison Bean is an assistant professor of business at Concord University. She began teaching at Concord in the Fall of 2022. Before joining Concord full-time, she was a project manager and earned her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. Dr. Bean is a graduate of Mercer University’s School of Business. She earned her Executive MBA from Wesleyan College, where she was recognized with the “Distinguished Student” award and had the opportunity to study business operations in Chile and Argentina. She completed her doctoral research at Walden University on “The Strategies of Successful Project Managers Leading Virtual Teams.” Dr. Bean worked for several Fortune 100 companies and specialized in designing and improving processes. She was in the financial services and insurance industry for over 15 years, where she’s done everything ranging from supervising risk managers to developing technologies that identified fraud and identifying and solving gaps in compliance. She says of her time at Concord, “My most enlightening experience was the Spring of 2023 graduation. So many of my students expressed how much they learned from me and expressed gratefulness for caring about them. I didn’t realize I could make such a huge impact in such a short period of time.” Dr. Bean spends her free time serving in her community, playing sports, traveling, reading murder mystery books, and spending time with her husband, Dr. Michael Bean, and their two daughters, Michaela and Mickenzie.
