President's Bio

Dr. David L. Levinson is president of Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut. Before coming to NCC in August 2004, Dr. Levinson served as the academic vice president at Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey.

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 Council on Education, 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 Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell to Connecticut’s Early Childhood Research and Policy Council.  He is a member of the American Council of Education’s Commission on Lifelong Learning.  Dr. Levinson serves on the Board of Directors of the following organizations: Connecticut Campus Compact; Greater Norwalk Chamber of Commerce; Norwalk Maritime Aquarium; Norwalk Children’s Foundation; Norwalk/Wilton United Way; the Norwalk Youth Symphony; and U Thant Institute.

The recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dr. Levinson has also taught at: Bergen Community College; Merrimack College; Norwalk Community College; Teachers College, Columbia University; and Tufts 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.