Levine has lectured at institutions including Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, University of Oxford, Columbia University, University of California, Davis, Duquesne University, and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He has taught conducting both at Yale and the Manhattan School of Music. His conducting students have included the American composer Aaron Jay Kernis. Levine maintains current ties to his two alma maters. He serves as a member of the Princeton University Department of Music Advisory Council and has recently been appointed to a fifth term as Associate Fellow of Trumbull College, Yale by the Yale Corporation, that university's highest governing body.