Arthur E. Levine
American academic (born 1948)
Arthur Elliot Levine (born 1948) is an American education scholar and academic administrator. He has served as the tenth president of Brandeis University since 2024, initially as interim president beginning November 1, 2024, and formally installed in 2025. He previously served as president of Teachers College, Columbia University, and as president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Career
Levine graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and from Brandeis University in 1970. He earned his PhD in sociology from the State University of New York at Buffalo after teaching in the Boston public schools.
From 1975 until 1982 he served as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Foundation.
Levine served as the president of Bradford College in Massachusetts from 1982 to 1989.
In 1989, he became a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he later chaired the Higher Education Program and the Institute for Educational Management.
President of Teachers College, Columbia University
From 1994 to 2006, he served as president of Teachers College, Columbia University. During his tenure at Teachers College, he led a $155 million capital campaign, the most successful capital campaign undertaken by a graduate school of education at that time.
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