Distinguished Service Award Recipients
Year Awarded | NEAIR Member Awarded |
| 2021 | Mark Palladino Thomas Jefferson University |
| 2020 | Bruce Szelest SUNY University at Albany |
| 2019 | Mitchell Nesler SUNY Empire State College |
| 2017 | Gayle Fink Bowie State University |
| 2016 | Michael Dooris The Pennsylvania State University |
| 2015 | Heather Kelly University of Delaware |
| 2014 | Rebecca Brodigan Colby College |
| 2013 | Jennifer Brown University of Massachusetts |
| 2011 | Martha Gray Ithaca College James Trainer Villanova University |
| 2010 | Michelle Appel University of Maryland |
| 2008 | Michael Middaugh University of Delaware |
| 2007 | Mary Ann Coughlin Springfield College |
| 2006 | Margaret Cohen George Washington University |
| 2004 | Karen Webber Bauer University of Georgia |
| 2003 | Richard Heck Dartmouth University Wendell Lorang SUNY University of Albany |
| 2002 | Dawn Geronimo Terkla Tufts University |
| 2000 | Patrick Terenzini The Pennsylvania State University |
| 1998 | Frederick Volkwein The Pennsylvania State University |