David M. Gring, Senior Associate, is President Emeritus of Roanoke College where he served for 15 years. During his tenure the undergraduate enrollment increased 22% and the endowment grew from $25 million to nearly $100 million. In 2004 the college completed its 50th consecutive year of balanced financial operations and installed the Nu of Virginia Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Prior appointments include Assistant Dean, Associate Dean, and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Concordia College-Moorhead, MN; and a faculty position in biology at Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Gring has served on the Boards of The Council of Independent Colleges, the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, and was a member of the Council of College Presidents of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

A native of Reading, Pennsylvania, Dr. Gring is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and holds both masters and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University-Bloomington.