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Greg Quick, former Athletic Director, recently accepted the position of Interim Vice President of Institutional Advancement. [Click to enlarge]

Concord’s former Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Greg Quick recently took on a new position as the Interim Vice President of Institutional Advancement.

The position can be described as a diplomacy-oriented role wherein Quick will coordinate objectives between several key parties that are crucial to Concord’s funding, relationship with the community, and potential employers for students and alumni.

Among Quick’s responsibilities will be to foster healthy, working relationships with donors and alumni in order to recruit donations for Concord’s future.

“From your admission to Concord university, to your graduation, and through the rest of your life,” quick said, “Concord should remain an experience all the way through.” Quick also believes that the Concord experience should move beyond graduates’ lifetimes and even to the next generation.

“It’s my job to foster those kinds of relationships and to increase that viewpoint,” Quick said, “and we have to work with and appreciate even the smallest donors to the largest contributors and foundations that can come from any person in any direction.”

Beyond funding and donations, Quick also added that the Vice President of Institutional Advancement should be responsible for coordinating and communicating with different corners of the campus in order to help students graduate from Concord and to be successful after receiving their degree.

“Institutional Advancement isn’t just coordinating dollars and cents,” he said, “it’s also coordinating faculty and academic programs with regional jobs and opportunities.”

One example that he drew was working with Concord’s geology division and faculty to prepare their students for professional jobs in West Virginia’s coal industry.

“We are a regional institution, and we are looking at way ways our graduates can helps this region,” he said,” and a large part of that responsibility will fall on my shoulders.”

Concord has not had a Vice President for Institutional Advancement or any similar position since 2001. The addition of the position and the abrupt fulfillment can – at least in part – be attributed to the country’s severe economic crisis and deep recession.

“It is influenced by that, but it’s also been needed for quite some time,” he said. “We think there’s great potential here at Concord, and we want to position ourselves so that when the economy rebounds and other institutions are recovering, we’ll already be there.”

Now that he has taken his position and moved into a new office directly beside President Aloia’s, Quick said he is going to spend his first few weeks conducting an “inventory” of the Concord community. According to him, this means identifying all the skillsets and resources available by meeting with Concord faculty, alumni, and the Board of Governors.

“We have so many resources available to make this campus even better than it already is,” Quick said, “and it’s important to look at even the minutest details to see where our strengths are.”

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