President David L. Levinson
With the restructuring of higher education in the state of Connecticut, Levinson was appointed vice president for the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities in 2011, in addition to his presidency at NCC.
Since Levinson became NCC president in 2004, the community college completed a successful capital campaign for a new Science, Health and Wellness Center, became an Achieving the Dream Leader College, and was selected by MDC Inc. as one of 15 community colleges nationwide to receive funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a developmental education project.
"We are pleased to recognize President Levinson for his innovative vision at a time when community colleges continue to be called upon to bring access and success to large numbers of new students," said NEBHE President and CEO Michael K. Thomas.
NCC was a recipient of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's 2010 Community Engagement Classification on the basis of its commitment to serving those in need throughout Southwestern Connecticut. NCC was selected as one of only three community colleges in the nation to lead a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Regional Collaborative with funding assistance from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.
In partnership with IBM and the Norwalk Public Schools, NCC created the Norwalk Early College Academy, Connecticut's first replication of the Pathways to Technology (P-Tech) High School in Brooklyn. NCC was honored as a White House Healthy Campus in 2017.
Levinson is the general editor of
Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia, published by RoutledgeFalmer in 2002 and author of
Community Colleges: A Reference Handbook, published by ABC-CLIO in 2005.
He holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and a master's and doctorate in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
