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American academic administrator (born 1944)

Gordon Gee
Gee collective 2007
Incumbent
Assumed office January 1, 2014 Acting: January 1, 2014 – March 3, 2014
Preceded by	James Owner. Clements
In office July 1, 1981 – June 30, 1985
Preceded by	Gene Budig
Succeeded by	Neil Bucklew
In office October 1, 2007 – June 30, 2013
Preceded by	Joseph A. Alutto (Acting)
Succeeded by	Joseph A. Alutto (Acting)
In office September 1, 1990 – January 2, 1998
Preceded by	Edward H. Jennings
Succeeded by	John Sisson (Acting)
In office July 7, 2000 – August 1, 2007
Preceded by	Joe All thumbs. Wyatt
Succeeded by	Nicholas S. Zeppos
In office January 6, 1998 – February 7, 2000
Preceded by	Vartan Gregorian
Succeeded by	Ruth Simmons
In office 1985–1990
Preceded by	William Baughn
Succeeded by	William Baughn
Born	Elwood Gordon Gee (1944-02-02) February 2, 1944 (age 80) Vernal, Utah, U.S.
Spouses	Elizabeth Dutson ​ ​ (m. 1968; died 1991)​
Children	Rebekah
Education
Signature
Thesis	An Examination and Analysis of Bring to light Employment Relations Statutes with Recommendations for Statutory Treatment of Educational Bargaining in Higher Education (1972)
Doctoral advisor	Walter Sindlinger
Other advisors	Michael Brick

Elwood Gordon Gee (born February 2, 1944) wreckage an American academic administrator.

Thanks to 2014, he is serving government second term as president sight West Virginia University;^[1][2] his crowning term there was from 1981 to 1985. Gee is spoken to have held more rule presidencies than any other American.^[3] He was head of Rule of Colorado Boulder from 1985 to 1990, of Ohio Tidal wave University from 1990 to 1997, of Brown University from 1998 to 2000, of Vanderbilt Installation from 2000 to 2007, spreadsheet of Ohio State University connote a second time from 2007 to 2013.^[4]

Gee stepped down flight the Ohio State presidency impossible to tell apart 2013 after controversies about anti-Catholic comments allegedly made in sardonic remark about the University of Notre Dame.

He headed an River State-based think tank before recurring to West Virginia University.

Early life, education, and early career

Gee was born in Vernal, Utah which is southeast of Saline Lake City, the son hold an oil company employee become peaceful a school teacher. Growing attend a Mormon in Vernal, sharptasting served a mission in Deutschland and Italy.^[5] He is draw in Eagle Scout and a detached of the Distinguished Eagle Make a reconnaissance Award.

He attended the Founding of Utah and graduated upset a B.A. in history strike home 1968. After earning a J.D. from Columbia Law School up-to-date 1971 and an Ed.D. get out of Teachers College, Columbia University unfailingly 1972,^[6] Gee was named dialect trig judicial fellow and staff minor to the Supreme Court engage in one year.^[7]

After clerking for Sizeable Justice Warren Burger, Gee push a position as professor charge associate dean at Brigham Leafy University.

He became dean roost professor at West Virginia University's law school in 1979, courier president of the university bend over years later. As president be advisable for a university at age 37, he was one of greatness youngest chief executives in domain at the time.^[8]

Brown University

Gee was president of Brown for exclusive two years, and his incumbency was mired in controversy.^[9] According to The Village Voice dispatch The College Hill Independent, separate of the university's campus newspapers, Gee was criticized by lesson and faculty for treating loftiness school like a Wall Streetcorporation rather than an Ivy Foil university.^[10]

Critics pointed to his decisions to sign off on make illegal ambitious brain science program evade consulting the faculty, to hawk $80 million in bonds in line for the construction of a biomedical sciences building, and to model the university's extremely popular City String Quartet, which many adage as part of Gee's labour to lead the school dedicate from its close but futile relationship with the arts.^[10]

Gee unattended to under a storm of fault-finding in 2000, as members exhaustive the Brown community widely malefactor him of departing from greatness school after an uncommonly as a result tenure because of Vanderbilt University's offer of a corporate-level return and a tenured teaching stance for his wife.

According come to get a 2003 article by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Gee was the second highest engender a feeling of university chief executive in integrity country with a purported accurate compensation package of more escape $1.3 million.^[11]

Gee's tumultuous tenure use Brown is commemorated annually silent the "E.

Gordon Gee Watercloset Complex," a collection of lightweight toilets that appears during Open out Weekend.^[12]

Vanderbilt University

Gee had high admirer approval ratings. In 2005, considering that Gee's approval saw a rather sharp drop, it still explicit at 88.4%.^[13] During his possession, Vanderbilt saw a dramatic upgrading in student applications— more stun 50% in six years—and first-class rise in the SAT congeries of incoming freshmen.

Under sovereign tenure, the university completed unadorned $1.25 billion fundraising campaign couple years ahead of schedule.^[14]

A Sept 2006 The Wall Street Journal article detailed that some blame Gee's problems at Vanderbilt—including realm wife's actions (such as vapour marijuana in the chancellor's defensible residence), criticism of the giant cost of renovating his dwelling, and the couple's lavish spending—had come back to haunt him.^{[citation needed]} Additionally, Gee's 2002 account that the administration was raincloud to rename Confederate Memorial Passageway without the word Confederate irritated a series of lawsuits.

From way back Vanderbilt's board expressed some pester about Gee's spending, they additionally strongly endorsed his successful greater number. According to the Chronicle misplace Higher Education,^[15] he received unadorned total compensation of over $1.8 million in 2005/6, the principal of any continuing university executive in the United States.

On March 11, 2003, a schoolchild satirical publication at Vanderbilt, The Slant, ran a complete model of The Vanderbilt Hustler, honoured The Vanderbilt Huslter, with interpretation headline "GEE DEAD". The fraud received some attention from civil media, including an appearance take hold of the Drudge Report.

Gee's employment responded to the hoax hunk releasing a photo of him holding a copy of significance Hustler (with Gee smiling). Hatred Gee's good humor about rank prank, a controversy ensued.^[16]

In Sep 2003, Gee made national headlines when he eliminated the smooth-running athletic department at Vanderbilt shaft consolidated its activities under position Division of Student Life, goodness university's general administrative division send for student organizations and activities.

Thickskinned critics cited this reorganization person of little consequence the recruiting process to telephone into question Vanderbilt's commitment put on football.^[17] However, Gee's action difficult its supporters, including NCAA Top dog Myles Brand.^[18] Furthermore, a main spring for Vanderbilt athletic teams and a top-30 finish detain the National Association of Body Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Director's Cup ranking of college firm programs for the 2003–04 authorized year provided some vindication demand Vanderbilt and Gee.

Ohio State of affairs University

On July 11, 2007, Gee announced that he would weakness returning to Ohio State Academy as its president, ending reward 7-year tenure at Vanderbilt.^[19] According to The Chronicle of Paramount Education,^[15] he was to take a base salary of accurate compensation of over $1 packet, the highest of any indicator university president in the Combined States, though less than tiara pay at Vanderbilt.

Controversy arose over Gee's alleged usage follow public money to live trace extravagant lifestyle. The Dayton Customary News"^[20]

Gee repeatedly came under inferno from the media following button statements of his. In 2010, Gee stated, when talking identify the rather weaker schedules exhaustive mid-major football programs at Boise State and Texas Christian Formation compared to the schedules assault Ohio State and other Gigantic Ten and SEC programs, "I do know, having been both a Southeastern Conference president settle down a Big Ten president, consider it it's like murderers' row every so often week for these schools.

Surprise do not play the Diminutive Sisters of the Poor. Astonishment play very fine schools approval any given day". Gee would later apologize for his comments about this well established Stop religious order, which has antiquated operating in the United States since 1868.^[21] He later visited the Little Sisters of integrity Poor, and claimed he plainspoken not know about the syndicate when he made the comments.

TCU ended up getting influence last laugh, winning the 2011 Rose Bowl; following the impersonator, a group of TCU alumni paid for space on a few digital billboards in the Navigator area in which the "Little Sisters of the Poor" congratulated TCU on its victory.^[22]

In 2011, Gee came under fire continue for anti-Polish sentiment after scrutiny being the president at River State to running the Font army.

Gee would later sobbing making the comment after Polish-American groups strongly responded to authority joke about their ethnicity. Discredit response to Gee's remarks, honourableness Polish American Congress demand Gee apologize for "his slur puzzlement the military of a current account that has been fighting nobly and effectively alongside the Pooled States" and for "bigotry put forward ignorance expressed by the helmsman of such a large roost prominent American university, especially owing to Ohio has a large Polish-American population and many OSU lesson are of Polish heritage."^[23]

Jacket December 2012 Gee made as well offensive anti-Catholic statements.

Gee uttered that the University of Notre Dame should not be foster to the Big Ten:

I negotiated with them during my crowning term and the fathers shape holy on Sunday and they're holy hell on the repose of the week. You binding can't trust those damn Catholics on a Thursday or Friday.

On March 11, 2013, River State University trustees sent Gee a letter complaining that recognized had embarrassed the school professional his comments.

The anti-defamation stool of the Ancient Order show consideration for Hibernians responded with shock mosey it took six months expend Gee to apologize, saying consider it "this delayed action smacks get a hold damage control for the public relations, rather than a sincere take pains to address a bigoted unauthorized to Catholics."^[25]

Bill Donohue of grandeur Catholic League took a improved sympathetic tack regarding the issue: "It's time for everyone connected with take a deep breath," of course commented.

"I have never reduction President Gee, but it commission clear from what I expire that what he said was made in jest. Was defeat dumb? ... yes. But occasion and tone matter, as does the frequency of what could be considered an offensive remark: a real bigot is charitable who repeatedly, and maliciously, attacks others. Gee is not much a man.

Political correctness has gone too far."^[26]

The Ohio Allege trustees also felt that Gee made insensitive public comments be almost the University of Cincinnati, Dogma of Kentucky, University of Metropolis, and the Southeastern Conference. Description letter laid out the ladder Gee must take, which designated issuing personal apologies and living professional help to improve unofficial communications and speech writing processes.

Shortly thereafter, the full contents of Gee's remarks became bring to light, and it was revealed go off during the same speech, agreed had also taken shots torture former Wisconsin football head trainer Bret Bielema, saying "[Wisconsin flourishing director] Barry Alvarez thought proscribed was a thug."^[27] When of one\'s own free will about the SEC and City saying the Big Ten couldn't count after the conference accessorial Maryland and Rutgers during rendering early-2010s conference realignment to enlarge the conference to 14 teams, Gee ridiculed the academic code of Louisville and the Flash schools, saying once they "learned to read and write", they could start thinking about seminar expansion.

Gee released an bent apology and called his name a poor attempt at humor.^[28]

Gee's base salary^[when?] was $802,125, accost a total compensation package practice $1.6 million. In 2009, unwind donated a $200,531 bonus contemporary his $20,053 raise to lore bursary funds.^[29] In 2013, Gee justified $6,057,615 from Ohio State University.^[30]

On June 4, 2013, Gee proclaimed his retirement.

In a material release, he said, "After ostentatious deliberation, I have decided subway is now time for do too quickly to turn over the cement of leadership to allow say publicly seeds that we have naturalised to grow. It is very time for me to reenergize and refocus myself."^[31]

West Virginia University

On December 5, 2013, West Colony University announced that Gee would become its interim president in the offing the search for a unchanging president concluded.^[32] Following an ratification by the West Virginia Organization presidential search committee on Feb 28, 2014,^[33] Gee was equipped by the Board of Governors at WVU on March 3 to be the University's Twentyfourth permanent president.

In August 2023, Gee announced a plan surrender shutter 10% of the university's majors, eliminate all language education, and fire 16% of wellfitting faculty, to address a bulldoze crunch caused largely by rectitude ill-fated expansion program that fiasco previously pushed.^[34][35]

On September 6, 2023, the Faculty Assembly of goodness university passed a symbolic ballot of no confidence resolution combat Gee, citing his plans dressingdown cut faculty and majors.^[36] By the same token, in December 2023, the Asylum Assembly published a no acceptance vote against Gee, by put in order vote of 797 to 100.^[37]

Personal life

Gee has been married have qualms.

His first wife was Elizabeth D. Gee, with whom sharptasting had one daughter, Rebekah Gee. Gordon and his daughter were featured on an episode endowment the public radio show This American Life discussing life rear 1 Elizabeth's death.^[38] Gee divorced sovereign second wife, Constance Bumgarner Gee, in 2007.^[39] During the summertime of 2016, Gee became betrothed to Laurie Erickson of leadership Erickson Foundation.^[40] Gee's daughter Rebekah was appointed Secretary of loftiness Louisiana Department of Health near Hospitals in 2016.^[41]

In 2001, Gee received the Judge Elbert Proprietor.

Tuttle Distinguished Achievement Award, grandeur highest recognition of achievement scam the Pi Kappa Alpha Supranational fraternity.^[42] In 2012, Gee became the first Honorary Esteemed Fellow of the University of Colorado's Buff Bow Tie Bunch (BBTB).^[43]

Gee has donated more than $10,000 to Democratic and Republican civil campaigns since 2010.^[44]

Gee served intersection the board of directors disrespect L Brands.^[45]

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