Concord University - Facilities

Facilities

Concord University's campus features numerous buildings and facilities.

• The majority of administrative offices, as well as the education, social sciences, and languages and literature divisions, are located in Marsh Hall. Marsh Hall also features a 48-bell carillon atop the building.
• The Science Building, attached to Marsh Hall, houses science laboratories and the natural sciences division.
• The Alexander Fine Arts Center, home to the fine arts division, features the Main Auditorium, art galleries, H.C. Paul Theatre, art laboratories, classrooms, and the office of the student newspaper.
• The Carter Center houses the University's two gymnasiums, athletic offices, classrooms, racquetball courts, indoor athletic facilities, and the swimming pool.
• The Student Center features the University's cafeteria, food court, student government office, student support offices, mail office, and development, alumni, and public relations offices. The Student Center also features a ballroom and conference facilities.
• The Bonner House houses the offices of the Bonner Scholars Program, a conference room, the counseling center, and faculty offices.
• The Woodrum House is home to students from the ALEF (Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation) Fellowship, a leadership organization on campus.
• The Maintenance Building houses the public safety offices, receiving station, and maintenance facilities. Witherspoon Park features faculty housing.
• The President's House and Vice President's House as well as other homes are located on campus.
• The campus also features an observatory.
• The campus also features the largest library in southern West Virginia, the J. Frank Marsh Library, which is a depository for federal documents. The library offers computer labs and facilities, microfiche, copying services, a juvenile section, and the University's archives. In the basement of the library, the University has its Center for Academic Technologies, which features a television studio, radio station and studio, a DNA laboratory, as well as distance education and technology classrooms.
• Concord University's outdoor athletic facilities include Callaghan Stadium featuring an artificial turf field funded by June O. Shott. Callaghan Stadium also features track and field facilities, tennis courts and a baseball/softball practice field. Anderson Field, located on the outskirts of the campus, features the soccer field and baseball/softball field.
• Concord University features five main residence halls: The Twin Towers, North (women's) and South (men's), Laura A. Sarvay Hall (coed), Damarius O. Wilson Hall (women's), and W.S. "Woody" Wooddell Hall, referred to on-campus as "The Woo" (men's).
• The new Nick Rahall Technology Center, a state-of-the-art facility. The new home of the School of Business, the Entrepreneurial Studies Program, the Center for Academic Technologies, and the University computer center. This US$14 million project is a central location for McDowell, Wyoming, Raleigh, Fayette, Greenbrier, Summers, Mercer and Monroe Counties of West Virginia where existing business may obtain training/orientation in technologies. The Center also houses the Concord University Entrepreneurial Studies Program, supported by a grant from the Hugh Ike Shott Foundation. Incubator businesses, gifted Concord students, as well as professional Concord consulting faculty from the School of Business and other disciplines, are brought together in the Rahall Center to use the area's "brain trust" to create entrepreneurial advantages for Southern West Virginia.
• The new University Point facility, housing the Erickson Alumni Center as well as the Wilkes Family Interfaith Chapel and Museum.