It’s easier to move a graveyard than to change a curriculum." A vice president at General Motors said it first, referring to the need to improve business education. Steven Levine, Ph.D, CIH, has been using the line lately in speeches calling for changes in how industrial hygiene is taught, particularly in graduate schools.

An industrial hygiene teacher himself, Levine is quick to admit, "I’m fully as guilty as anyone" in perpetuating teaching traditions that are now out of step with business thinking and organization needs, he believes. A professor of industrial health at the University of Michigan, Levine has helped guide hundreds of students in their IH careers since 1982. He’s also director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Occupational Health at U of M.