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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
By Kathy Lynn Gray
E. Gordon Gee will be the next president of Ohio State University.
Sources say Gee has agreed to return as Ohio State's president and informed the Vanderbilt University board of trustees of his decision this morning.
The Ohio State board is expected to vote on the choice on Thursday.
Gee, 63, has been chancellor of Vanderbilt since 2000 and was Ohio State's president from 1990 through ‘97.
Ohio State's board of trustees have been trying to lure him back for months.
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Alexandra477
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shroud
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Awesome news! Definitely excited to have Gee back at OSU. He always seemed to care a lot more about the students and entire university community as a whole - spending overnights with students in the residence halls, out and about visiting folks during USG elections and such... and just such a nice guy.
(but uhh yeah... why is this "Movie News" ?)
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brothermarcus
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"This was by far the most difficult professional decision that I have ever made," Gee wrote in an e-mail message to the Vanderbilt community Wednesday. "I am following my heart and returning to a place that I consider my home."
http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2007/07/09/daily20.html
I just wish he'd have come back (or never left) before I got my diploma, I'm not a fan of having Holbrook's signature on it... I started with Gee, he is the bestest.
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Ndcent
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06269/725169-298.stm
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- At Vanderbilt University, the board is trying to rein in star chancellor E. Gordon Gee, without running him off.
Since arriving here in 2000, the 62-year-old Mr. Gee has dramatically boosted the 133-year-old school's academic standing and overseen fund raising of more than $1 billion. Mr. Gee's $1.4 million annual compensation is among the highest for U.S. university leaders.
But supervision of Mr. Gee by the university's 44-member Board of Trust has "probably been a little loosey-goosey," says trustee Edward Malloy, a former president of the University of Notre Dame. Vanderbilt paid more than $6 million, never approved by the full board, to renovate and enlarge Braeburn, the Greek-revival university-owned mansion where Mr. Gee and his wife, Constance, live. The university pays for the Gees' frequent parties and personal chef there. The annual tab exceeds $700,000. Some trustees' concern was aroused when they learned that Mrs. Gee was using marijuana at the mansion. The chancellor told some trustees she was using it for an inner-ear ailment.
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Jason Allen
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Ndcent wrote He turned down OSU's $1.4m offer, and now he's on board for $2m.
Home is where the money is, I guess.
I think you were misinformed... I read that his salary is $775k annually.
"Gee, wearing one of his signature bow ties, was offered a 7-year contract paying $775,000 annually with unspecified benefits by the board of trustees. The details still have to be negotiated."
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vestanpance
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Jason Allen wrote unspecified benefits by the board of trustees.
a share in the sell off of the Limited :P
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Coremodels
Really close to Explorer's Club.
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Well, if the benefits are anything like the 6 million dollar mansion renovation he got at Vanderbilt...pretty nice benefit!
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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The Other Paper wrote I DREAM OF GEE
The Dispatch’s John F. Wolfe has been missing Gordon Gee for 10 years
By Dan Williamson / July 5, 2007
Back in the 1990s, one of the unofficial duties of a Columbus Dispatch editorial writer was trying to keep Gordon Gee from leaving Ohio State.
Mike Curtin, then the Dispatch editor, disclosed this in a humorous story told at a roast for Gee 10 years ago. Every time there was a rumor that Gee was being wooed by another school, Dispatch publisher John F. Wolfe would call Curtin into his office and demand an editorial praising Gee and essentially begging him not to go.
When Gee finally did depart, for Brown University in 1997, Wolfe probably figured that was the last he’d see of the energetic, charismatic university president. But as the OSU trustees search for a replacement for Karen Holbrook, Wolfe must feel like an excited bachelor entertaining the possibility of a reunion with an old flame.
The Dispatch reported June 24 that though Gee has turned down an offer of about $1 million to leave his current job as chancellor of Vanderbilt University and return to the Ohio State presidency, trustees have not given up on him.
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Walker
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The Other Paper wrote
THE GEE EFFECT - Will he undo Holbrook’s tailgating rules?by Erik Johns / AUGUST 30, 2007
With a new football season ready to kick off on Saturday, this week brought the standard warnings from city and campus police that they’ll be cracking down on alcohol violations near Ohio Stadium.
But this year, the fans’ old buddy Gordon is back. Though he doesn’t take office until Oct. 1â€â€between two away games, at thatâ€â€Gee’s return has revelers hoping and even assuming that he’ll bring the party back with him.
Message boards and blogs are chock-full of references to the expected changes in the tailgating scene.
“This is fantastic news. All the alumni will be happy,†one post reads.
“Maybe fans will actually be able to really tailgate again,†another says.
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