Oct. 23, 2009
Harrisburg, PA – Linda Lefevre, a 20-year veteran HACC administrator, has been named executive dean of academic affairs at the Harrisburg Campus of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College. She will assume the title on Oct. 26.
“I have worked with Linda for many years and know of her extreme dedication to HACC,” said Nancy Rockey, vice president of development and interim vice president of the Harrisburg Campus, who made the announcement. “I am pleased to be working side by side with Linda in her new role.”
Lefevre will oversee all campus academic operations at the Harrisburg Campus, including the library, Office of Academic Success and the Rose Lehrman Arts Center, in addition to being responsible for the operational duties of the Business, Hospitality, Tourism Division and Arts Division.
Lefevre currently is college dean of business, hospitality and tourism. She also has operational responsibility for the business, hospitality and tourism division and art department on the Harrisburg Campus and has curriculum responsibility for the arts and humanities departments.
Lefevre has created and been a part of many successful ventures at the college, including Bricco, the partner restaurant for the culinary arts programs, and Radius, the HACC Gallery and Museum Shop at the State Museum. Most recently, she has taken the lead on the development of certificate and associate degree programs in viticulture and enology to serve the state’s growing wine industry.
During her 20-year tenure at HACC, Lefevre also has done extensive work with curriculum development and was instrumental in developing trade programs such as HVAC, construction code and safety science, woodworking technology, welding and electrical technology. She also led the development of the Entrepreneurial Leadership certificate and degree programs, now offered through HACC’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies.
Lefevre previously coordinated adult basic education and English as a second language (ESL) programs for under served populations through Reading Area Community College. Prior to that, she taught GED in Berks County and counseled in a county-sponsored alternative high school in Reading.
She is membership chair of Slow Foods USA, Harrisburg Chapter and a former member of the Murata Business Center in Carlisle.
Lefevre is known throughout the region for her paintings and drawings, and has exhibited extensively throughout the state. She has work in the Reading Museum of Art, the State Museum of Pennsylvania and the Hilton Hotel in Harrisburg, as well as in a number of private collections. She currently has work on display at the State Museum of Pennsylvania.
Lefevre has a bachelor’s degree in art education from Kutztown University and a master’s degree in humanities from Penn State University. She attended the Art Institute of Chicago and was the recipient of a fellowship from the Vermont Studio School in Johnston, Vt. She is a native Pennsylvanian, having grown up in Peckville, a community near the Scranton area.
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