Academia
- Derek Curtis Bok, President of Harvard University
- John T. Wilson, President of the University of Chicago
- William Lyne Wilson, President of Washington and Lee University
- William Greenleaf Eliot, Founder of Washington University in St. Louis
- Michael K. Young, President of Texas A&M University, the University of Washington, and the University of Utah
- Ernest L. Wilkinson, President of Brigham Young University
- Thomas B. Symons, President of University of Maryland, College Park
- Curley Byrd, President of University of Maryland, College Park
- Scott Cowen, President of Tulane University
- William Carey Crane, President of Baylor University
- Arthur Cutts Willard, President of the University of Illinois system
- Hank Brown, President of the University of Colorado, University of Denver, and University of Northern Colorado
- Walter M. Bortz III, President of Hampden–Sydney College
- Gregory H. Williams, President of the University of Cincinnati and the City College of New York
- John R. Ryan, Chancellor of the State University of New York and Superintendent of United States Naval Academy
- George F. Baughman, President of the New College of Florida
- Henry Holcombe Tucker, President of the University of Georgia
- Todd B. Hawley, founder of the International Space University
- Lotus Coffman, President of the University of Minnesota
- John T. Fey, President of the University of Vermont and the University of Wyoming
- Robert Ryland, President of the University of Richmond
- H. Edward Flentje, President of Emporia State University
- Mark Kennedy, President of University of North Dakota
- Glenda Glover, President of Tennessee State University
- Martha Lucas Pate, President of Sweet Briar College
- Myron Augsburger, President of Eastern Mennonite University
- Clinton E. Adams, President of Rocky Vista University
- William Halal, Aerospace engineer, air force officer, academic, author
- Ricardo Jaar, President of the University of San Pedro Sula
- Gail Mellow, President of LaGuardia Community College
- Morris G. Steen Jr., President of North Florida Community College
- Michael Kammen, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at Cornell University
- Alexander Wetmore, 6th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
- Irvin D. Yalom, existential psychiatrist and emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University
- Sissela Bok, former professor of philosophy at Brandeis University, currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health
- Gustavo A. Mellander, President, Passaic College, Mission College, Chancellor, Inter American University, Chancellor West Valley and Mission College District. Graduate Dean Emeritus, George Mason University.
- Preston Cloud, eminent earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist whose work led to the development of the concept "Cambrian explosion," for which he coined the phrase "eruptive evolution"
- Bettye Collier-Thomas, founder Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and National Archives for Black Women's History, award-winning Professor of History at Temple University
- Jack Edmonds, computer scientist, recipient of the John von Neumann Theory Prize, best known for being one of the most important contributors to the field of combinatorial optimization
- Mildred Harnack, literary historian, translator, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany who was beheaded by the Gestapo
- Roger Pilon, Vice President of the Cato Institute
- Peter Schweizer, President of Government Accountability Institute
- Brooks Hays, Professor at Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and institute director at Wake Forest University
- Andrew Hartman, Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University
- Ellyn Kaschak, 1968, emeritus professor of psychology, Ohio State University
- Joseph E. B. Lumbard, Islamic scholar and professor at The American University of Sharjah; author and general editor of The Study Quran
- Cynthia H. Milligan, dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln; director of Wells Fargo & Company, Gallup Organization, Calvert investment funds, and W. K. Kellogg Foundation; daughter of United States Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin
- Maurice F. Neufeld, professor emeritus, Cornell University
- Carolynn Reid-Wallace, President of Fisk University; assistant secretary of education for postsecondary education
- Charles P. Roland, historian of the American Civil War and the American South, studied at George Washington in 1947 before transferring to Louisiana State University to obtain his PhD [1]
- Bill Baroni, Republican State Senator of New Jersey, former Assemblyman, Adjunct Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law
- Portia Holmes Shields, President of Albany State University, interim president of Tennessee State University
- Gary Sick, Middle East analyst and academic at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
- Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, African American historian [2]
- Raul Yzaguirre, activist, lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, former president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, Professor at Arizona State University, one of the first Hispanic fellows of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
- Meyrav Wurmser, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute
- Melinda Zook, Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History at Purdue University
