Dale Rogers Marshall is President Emerita of Wheaton College where she served as President from 1992 to 2004. During her presidency, Marshall led a planning process that resulted in economic and academic expansion for the College. As part of Wheaton’s growing recognition as a leading liberal arts college, Wheaton students won in the last five years three Rhodes scholarships in the last five years of Marshall’s presidency as well as Trumans, Madisons, Watsons, and Fulbrights, and numerous national awards. In addition, Wheaton’s applications doubled and first-year students graduating in the top ten percent of their high school class rose from 18 to 43 %. A $65M campaign ultimately raised more than $90M for faculty salaries, student scholarships, academic programs and new facilities. The College recruited a diverse and exceptional group of scholars to join the college's faculty and instituted new programs aimed at increasing diversity on campus. The College celebrated Marshall at the end of her presidency by naming the Marshall Multicultural Center in honor of her commitment to diversity.

Prior to her presidency at Wheaton, Marshall served as Academic Dean of Wellesley College from 1986 to 1992 and as Acting President in 1987-88. She served as Associate Dean of the College of Letters and Sciences and as Faculty Assistant to the Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Davis. She was a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis, and previously taught at U.C. Berkeley and U.C.L.A.

While serving as Wheaton's president, Marshall remained active as a scholar and a faculty member, regularly teaching and writing in her field of concentration, urban politics. She also was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served as Vice President of the American Political Science Association and President of the Western Political Science Association. She chaired the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts and the American Council on Education's Leadership Commission, was elected to the National Academy of Public Administration in 1987, and was made a member of the Board of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in 1996. Marshall also served on the Board of Trustees for Cornell University and on the Board of the New England Zenith Fund of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company and the American Student Assistance Guarantor Board.

Marshall, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, earned her B.A. with high honors in government from Cornell University in 1959. She received an M.A. in political science from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Ph.D. in 1969 from U.C.L.A. where she held a Regents Fellowship. She recently spent a semester as a Fulbright Scholar in Russia and has now returned to her home in the San Francisco area.