Academia
- Christy Anderson G, architectural historian
- Janet Abu-Lughod, sociologist known for contributions to world-systems theory
- Francis A. Bartlett 1905, eminent dendrologist
- Janet Catherine Berlo 1974, art historian
- Carlton Brown 1972, 1979G, president of Clark Atlanta University
- Philip R. Day, G, former Chancellor of City College of San Francisco and Cape Cod Community College
- Evan Dobelle 19363, 1970G, 1987 Ed.D., president of Westfield State College
- Larry W. Esposito 1977G, planetary astronomer
- Vera King Farris G, former president of Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
- Bertram Forer 1936, psychologist and namesake of the Forer effect
- Guy Livingston, a food scientist and founder of Phi Tau Sigma
- Dana Mohler-Faria, president of Bridgewater State College
- Joseph B. Moore, president of Lesley University
- Regina O'Connor, noted historian
- Alexey A Petrov, 1997, Professor of Physics, Wayne State University, recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Winthrop E. Stone 1882, former president of Purdue University
- Roger Stritmatter 2001 PhD, professor of humanities and one of the leading modern-day advocates of the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship
- Donald P. Zingale 1969G, president of the State University of New York at Cobleskill
- Zhou Qifeng 1983 Ph.D., president of Peking University
James Howard Smith, 1993, BA, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Sociocultural Wing, University of California, Davis.
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