2020 - Philip L. Dubois, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2019 - Stanley C. Preczewski, Georgia Gwinett College
2018 - Renu Khator, University of Houston
2017 - Earl H. Potter (Posthumously), St. Cloud State University
2016 - John T. Casteen, III, University of Virginia
2015 - Dennis Holtschneider, DePaul University (IL)
2014 - Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, University of Maryland Baltimore County
2013 - E. Gordon Gee, The Ohio State University
2012 - John Cavanaugh, Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area
2011 - Robert Caret, University of Massachusetts
2010 - Marvalene Hughes, Dillard University (LA) and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, George Washington University (DC)
2009 - Robert E. Hemenway, University of Kansas
2008 - Robert Glidden, Ohio University
2007 - Carol A. Cartwright, Kent State University (OH)
2006 - Jerry Sue Thornton, Cuyahoga Community College (OH)
2005 - Robert L. Carothers, University of Rhode Island and David P. Roselle, University of Delaware