The University of California today (Nov. 16) named Harold G. Levine associate provost for education initiatives.

Levine, who will retain his position as dean of the UC Davis School of Education, will assist the UC Office of the President on a part-time basis in developing, implementing, and evaluating systemwide strategies for coordinated, ongoing UC engagement with California’s public P-12 educational system. Levine will work with university and P-12 colleagues to stimulate new partnerships and initiatives and to better coordinate UC resources and programs focused on California’s public education system.

“The University of California has a long history of working with the public education community to help provide the opportunity for all of our children to learn and succeed,” Levine said. “I am honored to be asked by Provost Rory Hume to join him and others at the Office of the President and on our campuses to help plot a course that will build upon and deepen our commitment to public education.”

Levine, 60, has served as founding dean of the School of Education at UC Davis since July 2001. The school has a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration, deep and sustained engagement with communities and practitioners, and work that fundamentally integrates research and practice. Levine has overseen substantial growth in faculty, staff and students at the school.

Levine received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the UCLA education faculty in 1979, served as chair of the UCLA Department of Education from 1995 to 1998, and served as interim dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies from 1998 to 1999.

Levine will begin his new part-time assignment with the UC Office of the President immediately. His compensation, as approved by the UC Board of Regents, includes an administrative stipend of 15 percent to his base salary of $174,700, for a total annual salary of $200,905. In addition, he will receive standard health and welfare, pension, and senior management benefits.

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