John S. Levin, a professor in UCR's Graduate School of Education, will receive the American Educational Research Association's Exemplary Research Award.

The award, for Division J,  recognizes an individual who demonstrates an outstanding record of scholarly research in the education field and an unusually high level of accomplishment. They are recognized scholars whose published research has made an outstanding contribution to knowledge and understanding in the field of higher education.

The association will present its awards at its annual conference April 5-9 in Toronto, Canada.

Levin is the Bank of America Professor of Education Leadership and the director and principal investigator of the California Community College Collaborative (C4) at the Graduate School of Education.

He has studied higher education, particularly community colleges, for more than 25 years. His research has focused on faculty work and identity; community colleges, in the United States and Canada; governance and management of community colleges;  globalization and higher education; non-traditional students, including adult learners in higher education; and professional work of post-compulsory education teachers.