Gordon Gee

Gordon Gee

Elwood Gordon Gee (born February 2, 1944) is an American academic and college president. He is in his second term as the president of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio; he was previously president from 1990 to 1998.

Gee has held more university presidencies than any other American. Prior to his resumption of the presidency of Ohio State on October 1, 2007, Gee was chancellor of Vanderbilt University from 2000 to 2007 and president of Brown University from 1998 to 2000, of the University of Colorado from 1985 to 1990, and of West Virginia University from 1981 to 1985.

Gee's base salary is $802,125, with a total compensation package of $1.6 million, making him the highest paid public university president in the United States. In 2009, he donated a $200,531 bonus and $20,053 raise to scholarship funds. The same year Time rated him the best college president in the country.

Read more about Gordon Gee:  Early Life, Education and Early Career, Brown Tenure, Vanderbilt Tenure, Second Ohio State Tenure, Personal Life

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