E. Gordon Gee (President West Virginia U.)

[FCollinsBuckeye]

No dig on the Redhawks, ORD? You're slipping.

 

[Best Buckeye]

Does this mean we have to say that all ties are one of our greatest wins?

 

[sandgk]

Well now he has divorced his wife I guess there is less need for a supply of good home-grown wacky-tabacky ready for the Gee'ster's soirees.

Gee, 63, denied his interest in the job in a June 26 story in the Nashville Tennessean, saying "his commitment to Vanderbilt is unwavering and unshakable."
But OSU, which has been without a president since Karen Holbrook retired in mid-June, apparently proved irresistible. Gee has been enormously popular at Vanderbilt. But he recently came under scrutiny after the Wall Street Journal last year detailed his expensive renovations to the school-owned presidential mansion and his wife's use of marijuana at the house. Gee has since divorced his wife, Constance, who is on the faculty at Vanderbilt.

More coverage at Dispatch.com on Gee's return.

Sounds like Thursday is the likely date of a joint announcement in Columbus.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

No dig on the Redhawks, ORD? You're slipping.

No need to anymore. Ted Strickland and Eric Fingerhut, with the full support of the Republican Assembly leadership are in the process of putting that overgrown boarding school into its correct and proper position in the emerging university system.

They're tearing up the funding compact from the 1960s that treated all universities equally. Forcing the Fredo schools to disband their redundant, lowly-ranked graduate programs and have repeatedly stated that Ohio State's role in the new university system will be as the state's comprehensive flagship university to compete with the top 10 public universities in the country, and Ohio State will be funded accordingly.

The Columbus Dispatch : Chancellor puts schools on notice

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

It looks as though Gee is leaving Vanderbilt after all to return to Ohio State. With all of the fundamental changes (and likely emergence of a real, rational unversity system) being championed by Strickland and the Republican leadership in the assembly, it can't help to have the most politically astute higher education leader that Ohio has ever seen back in Bricker Hall.

Search function says: E. Gordon Gee (official thread)

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Why is he coming to Ohio State for less money? This will be very interesting with regards to the athletic department. I would have liked to see the look on Smith's face when he heard the news.

My guess is that, when the dust settles, he's not--even if we never hear about it. Wexner loves Gee and was the driving force behind keeping him at Ohio State when the University of California came calling in '97.

 

[schwab]

Well now he has divorced his wife I guess there is less need for a supply of good home-grown wacky-tabacky ready for the Gee'ster's soirees.



More coverage at Dispatch.com on Gee's return.

Sounds like Thursday is the likely date of a joint announcement in Columbus.

 

[BB73]

bucknuts

Gee Coming Back As OSU President

Gordon Gee


The Ohio State board of trustees are expected to vote on Thursday to bring E. Gordon Gee back for a second term as the university president. On Wednesday, Gee announced he was stepping down as the chancellor at Vanderbilt.

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[osugrad21]

DDN

Vandy model might not translate to OSU

Gee, who restructured the Commodores' athletic program, knows the Bucks run a larger operation.

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By Kyle Nagel
Staff Writer

Thursday, July 12, 2007
At Vanderbilt University, Gordon Gee transformed the athletic department during his chancellorship until it wasn't technically an athletic department at all. Folding athletics into the Office of Student Athletics, Recreation and Wellness, Gee supplanted the traditional athletics department management with the same body that controlled student recreation activities.
Now that Gee is leaving his Vanderbilt post to again become the president of Ohio State University, some might wonder if the same fate awaits the department in Columbus. But, college presidents and athletics department officials have said, each situation for a president and department is different.



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[Oh8ch]

Given the salary structure at OSU isn't it more likely that Gee will end up as the "Assistant AD for Academic Oversight" or some such?

 

[Best Buckeye]

I personally think we would be better off if they made SAW the Pres.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

It looks as though Gee is leaving Vanderbilt after all to return to Ohio State. With all of the fundamental changes (and likely emergence of a real, rational unversity system) being championed by Strickland and the Republican leadership in the assembly, it can't help to have the most politically astute higher education leader that Ohio has ever seen back in Bricker Hall.

Did you mean 'can't hurt'? Just curious.

I thought Gee was a fine President while I was in school, and think it's a good re-hire.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Did you mean 'can't hurt'? Just curious.

I thought Gee was a fine President while I was in school, and think it's a good re-hire.

Yep, I meant can't hurt.

I've never understood the hatred towards Holbrook. Ohio State moved forward by just about every ranking or criteria during her tenure, but I do understand that schmoozing alumni and dealing with politicians were not her strong points. In the immediate coming years, those shortcomings would not have served her well.

Gee is 63. My guess is that he'll be here for around 7 years and then retire. In this coming period, his strengths are exactly what we need. Someone to successfully oversee the upcoming 2+ billion dollar fundraising campaign and a politically astute president who has the full respect of the politicians in order to ensure that Ohio State's historic and rightful role as the state's flagship university is formalized in the upcoming restructuring of Ohio's public universities.

The Columbus Dispatch : Chancellor puts schools on notice

However, anybody thinking that Gee's return means some repudiation of Holbrook's policies is dreaming. For one thing, the accomplishments under Gee, Kirwan and Holbrook all flow from the difficult job that Ed Jennings did in undoing the damage to Ohio State in the 60s and 70s by Jim Rhodes and the university's reassertion of its historic (and rightful) role as the state's qualitative flagship university. Holbrook did not represent some radical break with Ohio State's history but simply a continuation of it, so expect the same from Gee II. The only radical break with Ohio State's history and role in Ohio's university system came in 1962 with Jim Rhodes--policies whose last vestiges are being snuffed out as we speak with the full support of the both the Republican and Democratic leadership of the state. The problem is that Rhodes was in office for so long that many Ohioans came to view his higher education policies as the historic norm rather than the historic aberration and break which they truly represented.

 

[matcar]

Yep, I meant can't hurt.

I've never understood the hatred towards Holbrook. Ohio State moved forward by just about every ranking or criteria during her tenure, but I do understand that schmoozing alumni and dealing with politicians were not her strong points. In the immediate coming years, those shortcomings would not have served her well.

Gee is 63. My guess is that he'll be here for around 7 years and then retire. In this coming period, his strengths are exactly what we need. Someone to successfully oversee the upcoming 2+ billion dollar fundraising campaign and a politically astute president who has the full respect of the politicians in order to ensure that Ohio State's historic and rightful role as the state's flagship university is formalized in the upcoming restructuring of Ohio's public universities.

The Columbus Dispatch : Chancellor puts schools on notice

However, anybody thinking that Gee's return means some repudiation of Holbrook's policies is dreaming. For one thing, the accomplishments under Gee, Kirwan and Holbrook all flow from the difficult job that Ed Jennings did in undoing the damage to Ohio State in the 60s and 70s by Jim Rhodes and the university's reassertion of its historic (and rightful) role as the state's qualitative flagship university. Holbrook did not represent some radical break with Ohio State's history but simply a continuation of it, so expect the same from Gee II. The only radical break with Ohio State's history and role in Ohio's university system came in 1962 with Jim Rhodes--policies whose last vestiges are being snuffed out as we speak with the full support of the both the Republican and Democratic leadership of the state. The problem is that Rhodes was in office for so long that many Ohioans came to view his higher education policies as the historic norm rather than the historic aberration and break which they truly represented.

I guess this isn't the place, but I'm a bit young to know much about this and I'd like to hear more. What were his policy moves?

 

[tibor75]

Yep, I meant can't hurt.

I've never understood the hatred towards Holbrook. Ohio State moved forward by just about every ranking or criteria during her tenure, but I do understand that schmoozing alumni and dealing with politicians were not her strong points. In the immediate coming years, those shortcomings would not have served her well..

OSU fans/alumni care more about getting drunk on football Saturdays than the academic mission of the university. I understood the hatred toward her completely. Witnessing OSU alumni in action (i.e. in Arizona) is not a pretty sight. It's not without cause that OSU has a bad reputation - just look at how obnoxious and stupid most of the alumni are.