Appointment to the rank of associate professor emeritus, professor emeritus, or distinguished professor emeritus may be awarded to a retiring full-time, tenured faculty member in recognition of his or her distinguished and sustained service to the university. The appointment is made upon the joint recommendation of the academic unit, the dean of a college (in the case of an academic unit that is located within a college with departments), and the provost.
- John Anderson
- David Arditi
- Ralph Armington
- Robert Arzbaecher
- Ralph Barnett
- Barry Bernstein
- Robert Bonthron
- Norman Breyer
- Alan Cramb
- Rollin Dix
- John Dygdon
- Dimitri Gidaspow
- Lois Graham
- Sidney Guralnick
- Geoffrey Higgins
- John Kallend
- Serope Kalpakjian
- Jotin Khisty
- Sudhir Kumar
- Willis Labas
- Kevin Meade
- David Mogul
- Mark Morkovin
- Demetrios Moschandreas
- Sheldon Mostovoy
- Sudhakar Nair
- Philip Nash
- Kenneth Noll
- John O’Leary
- Robert Porter
- Bernard Rasof
- Gerald Saletta
- Cesar Sciammarella
- J. Robert Selman
- Vincent Turitto
- Candace Wark
- Darsh Wasan
- John Way
- Erwin Weber
- Miles Wernick
- Thomas Wong
- Lori Andrews
- Fred Bosselman
- Evelyn Brody
- Bartram Brown
- Howard Chapman
- Lewis Collens
- Howard Eglit
- David Gerber
- Phil Hablutzel
- Steven Harris
- Gary Laser
- Martin Malin
- Sheldon Nahmod
- Henry Perritt
- Micki Piatt
- David Rudstein
- Jeffrey Sherman
- Michael Spak
- Ronald Staudt
- Joan Steinman
- Margaret Stewart
- Dan Tarlock
- Richard Wright
- San Utsunomiya
- Charles Bauer
- Ilene Burnstein
- George Byrne
- Bob Carlson
- Jinqiao “Jeffrey” Duan
- Warren Edelstein
- Tzilla Elrad
- Martha Evens
- Maurice Frank
- Peter Greene
- Barbara Heller
- Judith Lederman
- F. R. (Fred) McMorris
- Edward Reingold
- H. Lennart Pearson
- Abe Sklar
- Edwin Stueben
- Judith Zawojewski
- Dale Fahnstrom
- John Grimes
- Vijay Kumar
- Charles Owen
- Gregory Prygrocki
- Kei Sato
- Patrick Whitney
- Wilbur Applebaum
- Paul Barrett
- David Beam
- Russell Betts
- Harold Bretz
- Ray Burnstein
- Liam Coffey
- Michael Davis
- Paul DeForest
- Walter Eisenberg
- Thomas Erber
- Joseph Erwin
- Susan Feinberg
- Maureen Feinberg
- Robert Filler
- Maureen Flanagan
- Glen Geist
- Nicholas Grecz
- William Grimshaw
- Kevin Harrington
- Isidore Hauser
- Joyce Hopkins
- Margaret Huyck
- Robert Irving
- Peter Johnson
- Porter Johnson
- Daniel Kaplan
- Henry Knepler
- Robert Ladenson
- Chow Lam
- Sally Laurent-Muehleisen
- Peter Lykos
- Robert Malhiot
- Rajendra Mehta
- M. Ellen Mitchell
- Tim Morrison
- Margaret Power
- Kathryn Riley
- John Root
- Robert Roth
- Howard Rubin
- Fay Sawyier
- Warren Schmaus
- Kenneth Schug
- Ken Shug
- Hugh Scott
- Jack Snapper
- Harold Spector
- Linda Spentzouris
- Benjamin Stark
- Leonard Stover
- Mary Ella Vermillion
- Dale Webster
- Allen Wolach
- Michael Young
- David Zesmer
- Earl Zwicker
- Martin Bariff
- John Bilson
- Thomas Calero
- Joseph Chung
- Zia M. Hassan
- Harvey Kahalas
- Narsin Rasaee Khalili
- Tom Knowles
- Spencer Smith
- Nick Thomopoulos