Academia
- Charles McLean Andrews, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and professor
- Jere L. Bacharach, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Washington
- Steven Barkan, sociologist and chairperson of the Sociology department at the University of Maine
- David R. Brown, former president of the Art Center College of Design
- Evan Dobelle, New England Board of Higher Education president and former Trinity president
- Jane Fernandes, former president designate of Gallaudet University
- Edward Miner Gallaudet, founder of Gallaudet University
- Louis Feldman, professor of classics and literature at Yeshiva University
- Tom Gerety, former Trinity president and president Amherst College 1994–2003, Collegiate Professor, New York University
- Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College's Eli Black professor of Jewish Studies
- Kenneth W. Harl, Tulane University professor and noted numismatist
- Walter Harrison, president of the University of Hartford and NCAA committee head
- Joshua Hoffman, author and philosopher at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- J. C. Hurewitz, professor emeritus in the political science department at Columbia University
- Abner Jackson, American minister and for president of Trinity College and Hobart College
- Philip S. Khoury, Associate Provost and Ford International Professor of History, MIT
- Lloyd A. Lewis, Theology professor at the Virginia Theological Seminary
- Stephen Lloyd Cook, Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Virginia Theological Seminary
- John H. Makin economist and visiting scholar with the American Enterprise Institute
- Richard T. Nolan, philosophy and religion professor, writer, Episcopal Church Canon
- Robert B. Pippin, American philosopher, Director, Department of Social Thought, University of Chicago
- Hyam Plutzik, Pulitzer prize finalist, poet, and Professor of English at the University of Rochester
- William C. Richardson, board director of Exelon, former president of Johns Hopkins University, former director on the boards of: the Kellogg Company, the Bank of New York, CSX Corporation, and Mercantile Bankshares. Former head of the Kellogg Foundation
- Franz Schurmann, sociologist and historian
- Jim Shepard, author and professor of creative writing and film at Williams College
- Robert B. Stepto, Professor of English and African-American Studies, Yale University
- George W. Strawbridge, Jr., Board member: Widener University, (former adjunct professor), The Jockey Club, National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, National Steeplechase Association, Margaret Dorrance Strawbridge Foundation, Campbell Soup Co.
- Ilhi Synn, class of 1962, President of Keimyung University
- Neil Theobald, 10th President of Temple University
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