Cal Poly Department Head Elected President of Graphic Arts Accrediting Council

Nov. 3, 2004

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Cal Poly Department Head Elected President of
Graphic Arts Accrediting Council

SAN LUIS OBISPO - Cal Poly Graphic Communication Department Head Harvey Levenson was recently elected president of the Accrediting Council for Collegiate Graphic Communications (ACCGC).

Levenson, who succeeds Jesus Rodriguez of Pittsburg State University, began his term in October, and will serve for two years.

The ACCGC reviews and accredits college and university programs offering baccalaureate degrees in graphic communication and related disciplines. The mission of the ACCGC is to provide viable, credible and defensible accreditation standards that can be used by graphic communication and related programs to strengthen, enhance and maintain quality of instruction; to stimulate the exchange of ideas between academia and industry; and to recognize those programs that achieve and maintain acceptable standards in preparing students to enter the graphic communication profession.

Last year the graphic communication program at Cal Poly received ACCGC accreditation, becoming only the third program in the nation to earn such recognition.

Levenson has been at Cal Poly since 1983. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1967, a master's degree from South Dakota State University in 1968, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1980.

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