:: Provost’s Leadership Award for Partnership in Philanthropy ::

2008 Awardee

Cal Poly Provost William Durgin awarded the 2008 Provost’s Leadership Award for Partnership in Philanthropy to Graphic Communication Department Head Dr. Harvey Levenson. Since 1983, Dr. Levenson has been a true ambassador for Cal Poly, bringing recognition and honor, as well as donations of cash and equipment, to both the university and the Graphic Communication Department. He has built a solid program of national prominence, which resulted in the department’s accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Collegiate Graphic Communications in 2003.  Cal Poly’s program is one of only a few graphic arts programs nationwide to receive accreditation by this group.

Examples of his leadership and accomplishments that led to his selection include the launching of a fundraising drive in celebration of the Graphic Communication Department’s 60th anniversary and the establishment of 23 separate endowments that the department presently holds. Recent donations include a new Heidelberg four-color press valued at $1.55 million, a Kodak computer-to-plate system, a Degrava press and Adobe CS4 and Data-Point file management software, exceeding $2 million. Through his tireless efforts and because of his excellent relationships with industry partners and his strong ties to alumni, the Graphic Communication Department has a history of robust fundraising, including gifts of money and state-of-the-art equipment.

For more information on the Graphic Communication Department academic program, please visit: www.grc.calpoly.edu. For information on the department’s Graphic Communication Institute providing services to industry, visit www.grci.calpoly.edu

2007 Awardee

Cal Poly Provost William Durgin awarded the 2007 Provost’s Leadership Award for Partnership in Philanthropy to Animal Sciences Department Head Andy Thulin. Thulin was chosen from an impressive group of nominees for his leadership, hard work and enthusiasm in supporting Cal Poly's mission by successfully advocating and securing private support for the Animal Science Department.   

Examples of his leadership and accomplishments that led to his selection include the development of an overall vision for future departmental funding opportunities, planned giving activity that resulted in major estate gifts and scholarship endowments, over $1 million donated by John and Gay Lau to name the Meat Processing Center and in-kind equipment solicited to create a state-of-the-art Animal Nutrition Center.

 For more information on the Animal Sciences Department, visit http://animalscience.calpoly.edu/ .       

2006 Awardees

Cal Poly Interim Provost Robert Detweiler and College of Architecture and Environmental Design Dean R. Thomas Jones presented Allan J. Hauck, Construction Management department head, and James A. Rodger, former Construction Management department head, with the first Provost's Leadership Award for Partnership in Philanthropy. Detweiler recognized Hauck and Rodger as visionary leaders who forged critical partnerships to advance the mission of Cal Poly and the CAED.

 The former and current Construction Management department heads were lauded for their creation of more than 25 major industry and alumni partnerships that resulted in more than $5.5 million to expand the new state facility for the Construction Management Department and to build future facilities to support the college and the department.

 For more information on the Construction Management Department, visit http://www.construction.calpoly.edu/ .