Saturday, May 2, 2009

Steve Levering-Faculty


Steven Levering has been a part of TCU for more than 15 years. He spend his first eight years working in Information Services as a user service specialist. He helped design the Information Services first website, as well as other websites for the university.

After he proved to be a gifted designer, the journalism department asked him teach an Information Graphics class in 1999. He had aspired to be a professor since he graduated from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, so he gladly accepted the teaching invitation.

Levering was born in Siloam Springs, Arkansas and claims he was a computer nerd as a child. He remembers the summer his father first bought a computer. Levering was so excited that he spent his entire summer indoors learning computer codes and the ins and outs of the new technology. As a child, he learned how to use a computer at a time when it was too complex for many adults to learn.

When he is using his expertise to help to students in classroom, he enjoys cooking, listening to music and playing his XBOX 360. His favorite meal to cook is spinach topped with a flaky, baked salmon and broccoli on the side; he quenches his thirst with a glass of Pinot Noir.

Levering strives to treat everyone he meets with respect and decency. He really enjoys teaching but is open-minded to other paths his life may take. "So far life has been serendipitous--so if opportunities present themselves we'll see what happens," he said.

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