The UC Board of Regents named Harold Levine associate provost for education initiatives on Nov. 16. He began his new part-time assignment with the UC Office of the President immediately.

Levine, while retaining his full-time position as dean of the UC Davis School of Education, will assist the Office of the President in developing, implementing, and evaluating systemwide strategies for coordinated, ongoing UC engagement with California's public preschool through 12th grade educational system. He will work with university colleagues to stimulate new partnerships and initiatives and to better coordinate UC resources and programs focused on California's public education system.

"The UC 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 UC 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 the founding dean of the School of Education since July 2001, overseeing substantial growth in faculty, staff and students. His compensation, as approved by the UC Board of Regents, includes an administrative stipend of 15 percent added 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.

— UC Office of the President