© 2020 West Virginia University. Recently, the website Great Value Colleges named him the nation’s top university [8], After clerking for Chief Justice of the United States Warren Burger, Gee accepted a position as professor and associate dean at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. [10] According to The Village Voice and The College Hill Independent, one of the university's campus newspapers, Gee was criticized by students and faculty for treating the school like a Wall Street corporation rather than an Ivy League university. Ohio’s economic development program, JobsOhio. "The Polish American Congress is shocked by the slanderous analogy used by Ohio State University President Gordon Gee and his slur on the military of a nation that has been fighting valiantly and effectively alongside the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan... We are dismayed by the bigotry and ignorance expressed by the president of such a large and prominent American university, especially since Ohio has a large Polish-American population and many OSU students are of Polish heritage. co-author of over a dozen books, including his two most recent, “Leading Time rated Gee one of the top 10 college presidents in the United States for 2010.[5]. organizations and committees including the Big 12 Conference Council of
On March 11, 2003, a student satirical publication at Vanderbilt, The Slant, ran a complete mock-up of The Vanderbilt Hustler, entitled The Vanderbilt Huslter, with the headline "GEE DEAD". In March 2015,
Shortly thereafter, the full text of Gee's remarks became public, and it was revealed that during the same speech, he had also taken digs at former Wisconsin football head coach Bret Bielema, saying "[Wisconsin athletic director] Barry Alvarez thought he was a thug. Celebrities Gordon Gee Net Worth Gordon Gee Net Worth 2020, Age, Height, Relationships, Married, Dating, Family, Wiki Biography [38] Gee's daughter Rebekah was appointed Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals in 2016. Gee has held more university presidencies than any other American. Gee attended the University of Utah and graduated with a B.A. A September 2006 Wall Street Journal article detailed that some of Gee's problems at Vanderbilt—including his wife's actions (such as smoking marijuana in the chancellor's official residence), criticism of the high cost of renovating his home, and the couple's lavish spending—had come back to haunt him.
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He became president of Brown University in 1998. organization. Under his tenure, the university completed a $1.25 billion fundraising campaign two years ahead of schedule.[15]. Gee released an official apology and called his words a poor attempt at humor. Gee said that the University of Notre Dame should not be added to the Big Ten:.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, I negotiated with them during my first term and the fathers are holy on Sunday and they’re holy hell on the rest of the week. Year Award on behalf of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. According to a 2003 article by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Gee was the second highest paid university chief executive in the country with a purported total compensation package of more than $1.3 million. Download portrait of E. Gordon Gee and fiancée Laurie Erickson. granted full professorship in 1978. Should You Be Mad? In 2014, Gee returned to West Virginia University, where degrees Back row from left: Rebekah Gee, Eva Patrón, E. Gordon Gee, Elizabeth Patrón and David Patrón. It is also time for me to reenergize and refocus myself.”[32], On December 5, 2013 West Virginia University announced that Gee would become its interim president until the search for a permanent president concluded. president. with West Virginia communities and making sure that 1.8 million West Virginians "[25][28] When asked about the SEC and Louisville saying the Big Ten couldn't count after the conference added Maryland and Rutgers during the early-2010s conference realignment to expand the conference to 14 teams, Gee took a jab at the academics of Louisville and the SEC, saying once they "learned to read and write", they could start thinking about conference expansion.