college's immediate past president, Sandra C. Gray, was inaugurated as the seventeenth president of Asbury on October 5, 2007. She was the institution's first female president.
On March 5, 2010, Asbury College became Asbury University. The current president is Kevin Brown, a former faculty member of the university's Dayton School of Business. He was inaugurated as the eighteenth president on March 6, 2020.
=== Presidents ===
Presidents of the institution include:
John Wesley Hughes (1890–1905)
Francis F. Fitch (1905)
Benjamin Franklin Haynes (1905–1908)
Newton Wray (1908–1909)
Aaron S. Watkins (1909–1910)
Henry Clay Morrison (1910–1925; 1933–1940)
Lewis Robeson Akers (1925–1933)
Z.T. Johnson (1940–1966)
Karl K. Wilson (1966–1967)
Cornelius R. Hager (1967–1968; 1981–1983; 1992–1993)
Dennis F. Kinlaw (1968–1981; 1986–1991)
John N. Oswalt (1983–1986)
Edwin G. Blue (1991–1992)
David J. Gyertson (1993–2000)
Paul A. Rader (2000–2006)
William C. Crothers (2006–2007)
Sandra C. Gray (2007–2019)
Kevin J. Brown (2019–present)
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