Yale president stepping down after 20 years


August 30, 2012 at 9:51a.m.

Yale president stepping down after 20 years

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Yale University President Richard C. Levin has announced he is stepping down at the end of the academic year after 20 years at the Ivy League school.

Levin has served longer than any other president currently in the Ivy League or the 61-member Association of American Universities.

Levin is credited with leading the school’s largest building and renovation program since the 1930s, expanding Yale’s financial aid programs and international activities, improving the university’s historically difficult relationship with its unions and building partnerships with New Haven.