NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE PRESIDENT , DR. DAVID LEVINSON

NOVEMBER 16 TH

Dr. David L. Levinson's talk is titled, " NCC: The Community's College." He will focus on NCC's partnerships with the business community, such as NCC's recent Access to Education dinner which featured Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, whom Forbes named her the fifth most powerful woman in the world, as the keynote speaker. The meeting begins at 10AM at the Saugatuck Congregational Church, 245 Post Road East.

With 11,000 credit and non-credit students enrolled each semester, Norwalk is the largest community college in Connecticut.  Before coming to NCC in August 2004, Dr. Levinson served as the academic vice president at Bergen Community College in Paramus, NJ. 

Dr. Levinson is the general editor of Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia , published by RoutledgeFalmer in 2002 and author of Community Colleges: A Reference Handbook, ABC-CLIO, 2005.  Dr. Levinson served as guest editor of Community College Journal of Research and Practice for thematic issues on “Faculty Scholarship in the Community College” and “Community Colleges as Civic Institutions.”  He has given numerous presentations on educational issues at the annual meetings of the American Association of Community Colleges, American Educational Research Association, American Sociological Association, League for Innovation in the Community College, and Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Dr. Levinson was appointed by the Governor to serve on Connecticut's Early Childhood Research and Policy Council.  He serves on the following Board of Directors: the American Heart Association of Southern Connecticut; Campus Compact; Greater Norwalk Chamber of Commerce; Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk; Norwalk Children's Foundation; Norwalk/Wilton United Way; and the Norwalk Youth Symphony. 

The recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dr. Levinson is currently an adjunct associate professor in the higher education leadership program at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Dr. Levinson holds a B.A. in Sociology from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  Dr. Levinson and his wife Evan have two daughters – Emily, who is in the 8 th grade and Shana, a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University.