Year | Recipient | IU Degree(s) | Title at Time of Award |
| 2009 | YoungHwan Kim | PhD '94 | Professor of Education and Chair of Educational Technology Division, Pusan National University, South Korea |
| 2009 | Joseph Russell | MS '68, EdD '70 | Executive VP & Consultant, DLM Virginia Corporation |
| 2009 | H.A.R. Tilaar | MS'66, EdD'67 | Professor Emeritus, State University of Jakarta |
| 2008 | Dennis C. Hayes | BS’74 | Senior Vice President, NAACP |
| 2008 | Rodney P. Kirsch | MS’82 | Senior Vice President, Development & Alumni Relations, Penn State University |
| 2008 | Hazel R. Tribble | MS’75 | Elementary School Teacher, Indianapolis Public Schools |
| 2007 | B. James Dawson | EdD 84 | President, Coker College |
| 2007 | Michael Hanes | BS 70, MS 72, PhD 73 | President & CEO, Whitaker Center |
| 2007 | Nathaniel Jones | BS 73, MS 77, EdS 82 | Superintendant of Schools, Pike Township, Indianapolis |
| 2007 | Patricia Lather | PhD 83 | Professor, School of Educational Policy and Leadership, The Ohio State University |
| 2006 | Bonita S. Beaumont | BS 76 | Kindergarten Teacher, Center for Inquiry, Indianapolis Public Schools |
| 2006 | Carole L. Hahn | EdD 73 | Professor of Educational Studies, Emory University |
| 2006 | Sharon Robinson Kurpius | PhD 78 | Professor of Counseling and Counseling Psychology, Arizona State University |
| 2005 | Victor Boschini | EdD 89 | Chancellor, Texas Christian University |
| 2005 | Dale Fuqua | PhD 80 | Regents Professor, College of Education, Oklahoma State University |
| 2005 | Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan | PhD 71 | President & CEO, The Thiagi Group |
| 2004 | Rick Crosslin | MS 81 | Grade 4 Teacher at Chapel Glen Elementary School, currently on sabbatical with The Childrens Museum as School Liaison for Science Learning |
| 2004 | Bonnie Litwiller | EdD 68 | Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa |
| 2003 | Cynthia Cleveland | BS 74, MS 76 | CEO, Broadthink |
| 2003 | Thomas Oakland | PhD 67 | Professor, University of Florida |
| 2003 | Toby Strout | MS 74, PhD 91 | Director, Middle Way House, Inc. |
| 2002 | Yvonna S. Lincoln | EdD 78 | Professor of Higher Education, Texas A&M University |
| 2002 | Nancy L. Roser | MS 70, EdD 70 | Priscilla Pond Flawn Professor of Early Childhood and Professor of Language and Literacy Studies at the University of Texas, Austin |
| 2001 | Adeng Chaedar Alwasilah | PhD 91, MS 87 | Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Fine Arts Education, Indonesia |
| 2000 | Sue Marquis Bishop | PhD 83, MS 67 | Dean, College of Nursing and Health Professionals, UNC - Charlotte |
| 2000 | Arthur W. DeCabooter | EdD 71, MS 69 | President, Scottsdale Community Collge, AZ |
| 1999 | S. Kern Alexander | EdD 65 | President, Murray State University |
| 1999 | E. Scott Huebner | BS 76, MS 77, PhD 83 | Professor of Psychology, University of South Carolina |
| 1999 | Earline Rogers | BS 57, MS 71 | Indiana State Senator, District 3 |
| 1999 | Jimmy Ross | EdD 76 | Director of the Bloomington IU Office of Student Aid (Retired) |
| 1998 | Joan Kowal | MS 74, EdD 86 | Superintendent, School District of Palm Beach County (FL) |
| 1998 | Charlie Nelms | MS 71, EdD 77 | IU Professor of Education, Vice Chancellor for Academic Support & Diversity |
| 1997 | James Chung - Yuan Wang | MS 77 | Chairman of Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1997 | Lynn Luckow | MS 74 | President & CEO of Jossey-Bass Publishers |
| 1997 | Paula M. Rooney | MS 75, EdD 78 | President, Dean College in Franklin, Mass. |
| 1997 | Judith A. Fraps | BS 69 | Teacher - Title 1 Math/Reading, Metropolitan School District of Washington Township, 97 Indiana Teacher of the Year |
| 1996 | Jack Humphrey | MS 56, EdD 62 | Project Director, Middle Grades Ready Network |
| 1996 | Ronda Talley | PhD 79 | Assistant Executive Director for Education, Director of American Psychological (APA) Center for Psychology in Schools & Education |
| 1995 | James Lyons | MS 56, EdD 63 | Dean Emeritus Stanford U, Director MA in Higher Education |
| 1995 | Sylvia Swinton | MS 42, EdD 56 | Retired, Interim President of Allen University |
| 1995 | Lawrence Tyree | EdD 72 | President at Santa Fe Community College |
| 1994 | Myron Coulter | MS 59, EdD 59 | Chancellor, Western Carolina University |
| 1994 | Francis Mustapha | MS 73, Spcist Ed 79 | Teacher, Science, R. Nelson Snider HS, Fort Wayne, IN; Indiana Teacher of the Year |
| 1993 | Samuel Robinson | EdD 74 | Executive Director of The Lincoln Foundation |
| 1993 | Beverly Simone | MS 73, EdD 86 | President, Madison Area Technical College |
| 1993 | Jerrold Kemp | EdD 56 | Retired Professor of San Jose State University |
| 1992 | Ida G. Medlyn | BS 49, MS 66, EdD 79 | Retired Counselor |
| 1992 | Louis C. Stamatakos | BS 50, MS 51, EdD 58 | Student Affairs Administrator, Professor Emeritus Higher Ed Michigan St |
| 1992 | Valora Washington | PhD 78 | Assistant Dean, Associate Professor, Howard University |
| 1991 | James D. Beck | BS 50, MS 51, EdD 59 | Professor Education, Howard University |
| 1991 | Margaret Ellen Jay | BS 68, MS 69 | Library Media Teacher, Page Elementary School & Catholic University Adjunct Faculty |
| 1991 | Doris A. Trojcak | MS 68, EdD 69 | Department of Education, University of Missouri |
| 1991 | Janice Farmer Weaver | BS 53, MS 57, EdD 64 | Dean/Professor of Education, Glassboro St. College |
| 1991 | Kenneth Woodruff | BS 55, MS 56 | Director of Adult Education |
| 1991 | Beeman N. Phillips | MS 50, EdD 54 | Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas |
| 1990 | Madeline Marcelia Garvin | BS 73 | English & French H.S. Teacher & GT program coordinator |
| 1990 | Thomas L. Good | MS & PhD | Curriculum & Instruction Professor at U of Missouri |
| 1990 | G. Thomas Houlihan | BS | Superintendent of Graville County, N.C. |
| 1990 | Sharon Burmeister Lord | MS & EdD | Head of the West Virginia Department of Human Resources |
| 1990 | Anita Medsker | BS & MS | Kindergarten Teacher at Croninger Magnet School |
| 1989 | Karl Hertz | EdD 73 | Superintendent Mequon-Thiensville School District |
| 1989 | James Mecklenburger | EdD 75 | President, The Mecklenburger Group |
| 1989 | Maggie Samudio | BS 76, MA 86, Professional License 88 | Special Education Teacher |
| 1988 | Harmon Baldwin | BS 46, MS 50, EdD | Superintendent, Monroe County School Corporation, IN, retired |
| 1988 | Jacqueline Greenwood | MS 72 | Principal, Arlington H.S., Indianapolis, Women of the Year |
| 1988 | Gary Quehl | MS 62, EdD 65 | |
| 1987 | Russell L. Abel | EdD 71 | |
| 1987 | Helen Layman Hollingsworth | MS 63 | Retired, Writing Skills Teacher, Batchelor Middle School, IN |
| 1987 | Mohammad Abdulqadir Yousuf | MS 54, PhD 56 | Director of Regional Office of Education |
| 1986 | H. Dean Evans | EdD 66 | Indiana State Superintendent of Public Instruction, retired |
| 1986 | Marilyn Sue Kesler | EdD 64 | Orchestra Teacher, Okemos Public Schools, MI |
| 1985 | Emily Feistritzer | PhD 73 | Director, Center for Education Information, Washington D.C. |
| 1985 | W. James Popham | EdD 58 | Professor, Graduate School Education, University of California |
| 1984 | K. Forbis Jordan | EdD 61 | Senior Specialist in Education, Library of Congress, Washington DC |
| 1984 | Wesley J. Lyda | PhD 43 | |
| 1984 | Sue Hays Talbot | BS 66, MS 71, EdD 92 | Formerly-First Grade Teacher, Bloomington, IN. Currently - Director, IUB Hoosiers for Higher Education |
| 1983 | Helen Blackledge | BS 30 | Retired Coach/PE Teacher, Columbia City, IN |
| 1983 | Phil Eskew | MS 33 | Commissioner Emeritus |
| 1983 | Robert Freeman | BS 57, MS 59, EdD 65 | Superintendent, Dekalb County School System, GA |
| 1982 | Gene Schwilck | EdD 56 | President, Danforth Foundation |
| 1981 | Dolores Hernandez | EdD 60 | Director, UPISMED |
| 1980 | Philip Peak | PhD 55 | Professor Emeritus of Education |
| 1979 | Austin Walker | MS 48 | Retired Superintendent, Warren Township Schools |
| 1978 | Harry Davidson | MS 37 | Retired Superintendent, Executive Director, Greater Battlecreek Foundation |
| 1977 | Fay Arganbright | MS 46 | Associate Professor Emeritus, Education |
