Yale University President Richard C. Levin on Thursday announced that he will step down at the end of the current academic year, after 20 years of service, the school announced.
Levin has served at Yale longer than any other president currently in the Ivy League or the 61-member Association of American Universities.
Since 1993 when he became president, Levin has been credited with advancing Yale’s schools and academic programs particularly, strengthening science, engineering, and medicine.
He also led the transformation of Yale’s physical campus with the largest building and renovation program since the 1930s.
In 2010, Levin was rumored to be a top candidate for the director of the President Obama’s National Economic Council, but the job never came to fruition.
