Levy and Post-Secondary Education

Queen Park: Then Queen Park came looking for a new deputy minister of training, colleges and universities with an offer Levy felt he couldn’t refuse, according to The Toronto Star. They talked about how important it is to see post-secondary education as an investment in our economic and social future – and how the province depends on the success of young people, which is how I’ve always seen education, said Levy Monday, fresh from a Ryerson event with thousands of first-year students, the sort of front-line contact he said he hopes to continue somehow in his new post. The president of Ryerson had agreed to postpone his retirement this summer so the university could find a successor after an earlier choice abruptly pulled out — but at 66, Levy said he hadn’t been thinking of a new full-time job. Levy will stay at Ryerson until he assumes his new post Dec. 1, and said the university hopes to have a new president by September 2016. The folksy motorcycle buff who has been president for 10 years has been hailed for his focus on innovation, especially the supportive home base he launched for campus inventors called the Digital Media Zone, where students could brainstorm, test their inventions and meet potential investors. Levy had been poised to retire from the booming urban campus July 31, when his tentative successor, Concordia University President Alan Shepard, withdrew and Levy agreed to stay on for up to two more years if needed while they sought a successor. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.