College/university president; leading scholar/researcher in field

• Daniel Read, AB 1824, AM 1827, president, University of Missouri (1866–76)


• Joseph Carter Corbin, AM 1856, president, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (1873–90)


• Edwin E. Gordon, MED ’55, noted researcher in music education and the psychology of music
  See more: Edwin E. Gordon (Wikipedia)


• Donald D. Howard, MA ’56, noted historian of the Napoleonic wars and the French Revolution


• Dale F. Nitzschke, MED ’60, PHD ’64, former president of Marshall University, the University of New Hampshire and Southeast Missouri College


• Tom D. Crouch, AB ’66, leading historian of flight and curator for the National Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of American History


• C. Brent DeVore, BSJ ’62, president, Otterbein College


• John Locke, MA ’65, PhD ’68, leading scholar in the study of child language at Cambridge University


• Donald L. Miller, MA ’67, whose 1989 biography of scholar/philosopher Lewis Mumford was nominated for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize


• Ruth Sullivan, PhD ’84, founder, National Society for Autistic Children
  See more: Ruth Sullivan (Wikipedia)