Rev. Thomas Ries, Ph.D. student (Higher Education) in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, has been selected as the ninth president of Concordia University-St. Paul. Ries is currently president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Foundation, splitting time between his home and school in the Twin Cities and his work in St. Louis, MO. He was vice president for finance and operations at Concordia from 1999 to 2004. See the full story in the Minnesota Daily.