- 2022—Ann Veeck
- 2021—James Eckert, Brian Gogan
- 2020—Due to the conditions imposed by COVID-19 no nominations were accepted.
- 2019—Matthew Mingus, Leah Omilion-Hodges
- 2018—Michael Braun, Scott Cowan, Scott Slawinski
- 2017—Ariel Anderson, Louann Bierlein Palmer, Gwen Tarbox
- 2016—Jennifer Machiorlatti, Lisa Paulius
- 2015—Allison Downey, Michael Nassaney
- 2014—Sue Ellen Christian, Autumn Edwards
- 2013—Holly J. Nibert, Paul R. Solomon, Sarah E. Summy
- 2012—Jon R. Adams, Richard Malott
- 2011—Donald F. Cooney, Karen M. Lancendorfer, Maureen Mickus
- 2010—Grace C. Tiffany, Philip G. Walcott, Stephen W. Wolfinbarger
- 2009—Chad Edwards, Peter E. Parker
- 2008—Mary Z. Anderson
- 2007—Richard Gershon, Trent Kynaston, Jennifer Palthe
- 2006—Irma M. Lopez, Suhashni "Sushi" Datta-Sandhu
WMU Alumni Association Teaching Excellence recipients
- 2001—Mary L. Dawson, Carolyn J. Harris
- 2000—Alyce M. Dickinson, Alexander J. Enyedi
- 1999—Ronald B. Chase, Frank M. Gambino
- 1998—E. Thomas Lawson, Greg Roehrick
- 1997—Jorge M. Febles, Katherine Joslin
- 1996—Yousef Alavi, Wendy L. Cornish
- 1995—Elwood Ehrle, Robert Griffin
- 1994—Joseph Buckley, Bob White
- 1993—David Karsten, Edward Mayo, Cecil McIntire
- 1992—Susan Caringella-MacDonald, Richard Cooper, Lyda Stillwell
- 1991—Constantine Gianakaris, Gerald Hardie, Harold Ray
- 1990—Arnold Johnston, Richard Keaveny
- 1989—Alan Brown, Robert Felkel, Leo Stevenson
- 1988—James Burns, Zahir Quraeshi, Arthur White
- 1987—Max Benne, Gary Chartrand, Meshulam Groper
- 1986—John Fisher, Gilbert Hutchings, Roy Olton, Shirley Scott
- 1985—Betty Deshler, Alonzo Hannaford, Alan Isaak, Larry Oppliger, Ernest Stech
- 1984—Raymond Alie, Clara Gamble, Jack Michael, Steven Rhodes, David Rozelle
- 1983—Mary Ann Bush, Elizabeth Giedeman, Gilda Greenberg, A.D. Issa, Uldis Smidchens
- 1982—Ralph Chandler, M. Joanne Mohr, Richard Pippen, Visho Sharma, Kathleen Sinning
- 1981—Ronald Kramer, Andrew Powell, George Robeck, Nancy Steinhaus, Roger Wallace
- 1980—Lowell Crow, Jack Humbert, Louis Junker, Phyllis Rappeport, Archie Watson
- 1979—Shirley Bach, Thomas Deckard, Linda Delene, Oscar Horst, Robert Neubig
- 1978—Thomas Carey, Stanley Derby, Dale King, Charles Smith, Michael Swords
- 1977—Harold Bate, Sherwood Cordier, Harry Hefner
- 1976—Zane Cannon, Martin Cohen, Cameron Lambe, Fred Orlofsky, Shirley VanHoeven
- 1975—Wade Adams, Lee Baker, Paul Friday, Gale Newell, David Rozelle
- 1974—Thomas Gossman, Paul Maier, Lurette McCray, George Stegman, Jess Walker
- 1973—Lewis Carlson, Raymond Deur, James Daniels, Charles Houston, Mary Lous Stewart
- 1972—Gene Booker, Edward Heinig, Herb Jones, Alice Lewis, Dorothy McGinnis, Leo VanderBeek
- 1971—Robert Barstow, Dorothy Bladt, William Buys, James Casey, Jean Malmstrom, Lewis Walker
- 1970—Donald Bouma, Jean Friedel, Darrell Jones, Richard Pippen, Rudolf Siebert, Dean Tyndall
- 1969—Clara Chiara, Edwin Grossnickle, Howard Mowen
- 1968—Willis Dunbar, Ken Macrorie, Herman Rothfuss
- 1967—David Adams, Charles Brown, Margaret Macmillan
- 1966—William Morrison