- 2024 – Casey Rothenberger, San Diego State University Global Campus
- 2023 – Jayzona Alberto, Stanford University
- 2022 – Vanessa Williams, Temple University
- 2021 – Katie Linder, Kansas State University Global Campus
- 2020 – Dr. Heather K. Hunt, University of Missouri
- 2019 – Kim Holka, Oakland University
- 2018 – Julie Damron, Brigham Young University
- 2017 – Nicole de Vries, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2016 – Amy Johnson, Oakland University, Center for Human Animal Interventions
- 2015 – Karen Smith, Kennesaw State University
- 2014 – Jessica Rafter, University of Virginia
- 2013 – Guy Felder, University of Houston
- 2012 – Lori Stania, The Pennsylvania State University
- 2011 – Jennifer Gigliotti-Labay, Center for College Readiness
- 2010 – No award recipient
- 2009 – Jean Marie Redeker, University of Kansas
- 2008 – Siva Kumari, Rice University
- 2007 – John F. Beyers, University of Maryland University College
- 2006 – Belinda Biscoe, University of Oklahoma
- 2004 – James Fong, Penn State University
- 2003 – Susan Nesbitt, St. Joseph’s College of Maine
- 2000 – Linda Butterfield Cupp, University of Missouri-Columbia; William S. McClure, Binghamton University, State University of New York
- 1998 – James L. Narduzzi, University of Richmond
- 1997 – Pat B. Brewer, University of Georgia
- 1995 – D. Lynne Syring, Wichita State University
- 1994 – Don Olcott, Jr., Oregon State University
- 1992 – Thomas F. Kowalik, Binghamton University, State University of New York
- 1991 – Jane D. Bromert, University of South Dakota
- 1990 – Meta R. Braymer, Mary Washington College
- 1989 – Robert H. Boyd, University of North Dakota
- 1988 – Janet L. Hurley, University of Kentucky
