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Concord University is a public university in Athens, West Virginia, United States. It was founded on February 28, 1872, when the West Virginia Legislature passed "an Act to locate a Branch State Normal School, in the town of Concord Church, in the County of Mercer". [ 6 ]
The first law school to offer a degree program completely online was Concord Law School, the law school of Purdue University Global (the online division for Purdue University), which started in 1998. As of 2006 Concord is the largest of the seven distance learning law schools. [14] Concord graduated its first class in November 2002. [15]
In the past decade, since 2014, 11 law schools have closed, with the most recent closing, of Golden Gate University School of Law, announced in fall 2023. [ 3 ] In addition, individual state legislatures or bar examiners, like the State Bar of California , may maintain a separate accreditation system which is open to non-ABA accredited schools.
The merger of Concord into Kaplan University in late 2007 made Concord the first online law school to be part of a regionally accredited university. [6] [7] As the first fully online law school in the United States, the concept of Concord initially drew criticism from the legal establishment, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ...
Concord University has been awarded a Continuing Grant under Track 2 of the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program in the amount of $2,317,725 by the National Science Foundation.
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Concord University Board of Governors: Formation: 1875 (principal) 1896 (president) First holder: James Harvey French (principal) Christopher Columbus Rossey (president)
[2] [3] [4] Marshall University and West Liberty University were both established in 1837, but as private subscription schools. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Founded in 1867, West Virginia University is the state's largest public institution of higher learning in terms of enrollment, as it had 29,707 students as of spring 2013. [ 7 ]