Martin L. Levine Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs

Martin Levine was appointed vice provost for faculty affairs in 1998.

In this position, Levine is the senior executive officer responsible to the provost for all faculty and advises him on faculty appointments, promotions, tenure, contracts, salaries and policies. He also acts as the provost's liaison with the schools of business, law, education, social work and policy, planning and development.

Levine also holds the UPS Foundation Chair in Law and Gerontology, and is professor of psychiatry and the behavioral sciences, with joint appointments in the schools of law, gerontology and medicine. He was selected by the American Council on Education and Change Magazine for their list of 100 Outstanding Developing Leaders in American Higher Education.

Other positions Levine has held outside of USC include law clerk to Judge J. Skelly Wright of the US Court of Appeals, teaching at Columbia and Oxford, General Counsel of the U.S. Senate Constitutional Rights Subcommittee and first lawyer appointed in the Federal Public Defender Office in Los Angeles.