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 Gordon Gee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gee is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.
Gee sits on the Board of Directors of Massey Energy, where he is a member of the Public and Environmental Policy Committee.
Gee attended and graduated from the University of Utah in 1968 with a bachelor of arts degree in history, joining the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity during his undergraduate career.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gordon_Gee   (1088 words)

  
 Health mission key to Vanderbilt's success: Gee
Gee’s first academic position was as assistant dean of the law school at the University of Utah.
Gee first served as a chief executive officer at the age of 37, when he was elected president at West Virginia.
Gee is married to Constance Bumgarner Gee, assistant professor of public policy and education at Brown, and the former director of the Arts Policy and Administration Program at Ohio State.
www.mc.vanderbilt.edu /reporter/index.html?ID=1020   (1335 words)

  
 96-150c (E. Gordon Gee)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
As the 11th president of The Ohio State University, E. Gordon Gee [pronounced with a hard g, as in good] has led one of the nation's most comprehensive research universities with nearly 60,000 students, 30,000 faculty and staff and an annual budget of $1.7 billion.
Gee, 53, was born in Vernal, Utah, on February 2, 1944.
Gee is married to Constance Bumgarner Gee, director of the Arts Policy and Administration Program and assistant professor of art education at Ohio State.
www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/1996-97/96-150c.html   (549 words)

  
 BAM: E. Gordon Gee, Under the Elms, September/October 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Gordon Gee was once shown in Ohio State's alumni magazine standing with a pig.
Gee next spent a year as a judicial fellow and senior staff assistant to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger and then four years as associate law dean and law professor at Brigham Young University.
Gee told a reporter from the Cleveland Plain Dealer last winter that at West Virginia, he was once advised to "look and act like a university president." The bow tie was replaced by neckties and three-piece suits, but, Gee said, "I was failing.
www.brownalumnimagazine.com /storydetail.cfm?ID=1113   (1029 words)

  
 Gordon Gee's five year plan '00-'05 - features
Gee's arrival and weighty influence on the University's direction has in many ways mirrored the rapid development achieved in historical five year plans.
Central to Gee's aims were plans to increase the quantity and quality of research at Vanderbilt, to improve graduate education, and to continue to improve undergraduate education.
Gee specified these aims in his "five challenges to the faculty" during his first address of the Faculty Assembly in February of 2000.
www.versusmag.org /media/storage/paper584/news/2005/04/20/Features/Gordon.Gees.Five.Year.Plan.0005-925537.shtml?norewrite200605080632&sourcedomain=www.versusmag.org   (378 words)

  
 Mormon News for WE 06Aug00: Gordon Gee Becomes Vanderbilt Univ
Gee's sudden departure from Brown was met with frustration by Brown University's committee, which felt that the University was just getting used to Gee's style.
Gee says he has learned that Vanderbilt is "too fractured -- a cacophony of voices and not a chorus." He wants to make the University more entrepreneurial, streamlined and diverse.
Prior to becoming president of Brown in 1997, Gee was president of Ohio State University for seven years after serving as president of both the University of Colorado and of West Virginia University.
www.mormonstoday.com /000806/P2Gee01.shtml   (392 words)

  
 Vanderbilt reins in lavish spending by chancellor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Gee's 25-year career as a university leader follows a recurring pattern: disrupt the status quo, lift the university's image, raise a lot of money, and leave for another job.
Gee left to assume the presidency of the University of Colorado, where he charmed students and lawmakers, who boosted state support by 37 percent during his tenure.
Gee says, "We indicated some of the things that we thought would be important, including creating a space for all the entertaining we were going to do." However, he says he didn't keep tabs on the project's cost because he didn't want to be perceived as trying to shape the project for his personal gain.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06269/725169-298.stm   (2699 words)

  
 Gordon Gee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Former Vernal resident, E. Gordon Gee, was named recently as the chancellor (president) of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. The school has more than 10,000 undergraduates, graduate and professional students and operates 10 schools, a medical center, public policy institute and the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center.
Gee graduated from the University of Utah in 1969 and earned a law degree and doctorate in education from Columbia University in 1971 and 1972, respectively.
Gee's wife Constance, an assistant professor of public policy and education at Brown University, said she will serve on the faculty of Vanderbult's Peabody College of Education.
www.vernal.com /mar1/fr.gee.html   (176 words)

  
 Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Rallying Around Gordon Gee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Gee has also personally involved himself in recruiting faculty members — and has helped attract stars, most recently in literary and African-American studies.
An editorial noted that Gee had let many on the campus know that a critical article was coming, and said that many considered the piece “old news.” While the editorial said it was important for the university’s trustees to have more oversight over spending, the newspaper announced that it was “unimpressed” by the Journal article.
Gee has previously served as president of West Virginia University, the University of Colorado, Ohio State University, and, most recently, Brown University.
www.insidehighered.com /news/2006/09/27/gee   (946 words)

  
 Gee taking heat, even from wife, over VU's decision to honor Rice - Tuesday, 05/11/04   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Constance Gee, an associate professor of public policy and education at the university her husband runs, is one of about 150 students, faculty and staff members protesting Vanderbilt's plans to give Rice an award for ''distinguished public service'' when she speaks to this year's graduates Thursday.
Gordon Gee told her that Rice is ''an intelligent, interesting person'' and that students he polled informally were eager to hear her speak, Constance Gee recalled.
For his part, Gordon Gee said his wife had already been ''a well-known opponent to the war'' and that disagreement between the couple was not uncommon but also not a problem.
www.tennessean.com /education/archives/04/05/51127774.shtml   (1007 words)

  
 Mormon News for WE 06Oct00: Gordon Gee 'Everywhere' at Vanderb
Mormon News for WE 06Oct00: Gordon Gee 'Everywhere' at Vanderb
Gee is a devout Mormon who has spent nearly his whole life in academics.
Gee has targeted a handful of issues that he is making a priority at Vanderbilt.
www.mormonstoday.com /001006/P2Gee01.shtml   (326 words)

  
 Gee delivers first message to medical students
Gee told the students that they are lucky to be at Vanderbilt and that Vanderbilt is lucky to have them.
Gee said that even though Vanderbilt is a complex institution, the 330-acre campus with 10,200 students is relatively small.
Gee said he is convinced that Vanderbilt is well on its way to becoming one of the top institutions in the country.
www.mc.vanderbilt.edu /reporter/index.html?ID=1824   (637 words)

  
 Scout.com: Can Gee's bold plans succeed?
Gee's words and actions were bold-- but putting a winning Vanderbilt football team on the field would make a far bolder statement.
Gee said last week that his E-mail has been running around 80 percent positive, and his phone calls were running 50-to-1 that way.
Gee and Williams tried to reaffirm Vanderbilt's commitment to competing in the SEC and Division I-A, but the damage was already done.
vanderbilt.scout.com /2/179471.html   (1330 words)

  
 palmspringsbum :: View topic - Tennessee
Michael J. Schoenfeld, vice chancellor for public affairs at Vanderbilt, said today that Constance Gee is on faculty at the university and that he cannot comment on whether or not she was reprimanded for using marijuana in the mansion.
Gordon Gee wouldn't discuss the details of his wife's marijuana use Tuesday but did say her inner-ear problems were a concern and that she faced the possibility of losing much of her hearing.
Gee said his administration went through the appropriate channels to get the renovations funded and that "senior officers and a board committee" managed the process.
www.palmspringsbum.com /bbs/viewtopic.php?p=893   (3624 words)

  
 E. Gordon Gee - Speaker - 1999 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting
Gordon Gee has been President of Brown University since 1997 where he is also a professor of education and public policy.
Professor Gee earned his Bachelor’s in History from the University of Utah in 1968, and a law degree and doctorate in education from Columbia University in 1971 and 1972, respectively.
In 1981, at age 37, Professor Gee became one of the country’s youngest college presidents when he assumed the leadership of West Virginia University in 1981.
aaahq.org /AM1999/gee.htm   (231 words)

  
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Saying that intercollegiate athletics must be totally integrated into the academic and student life of the University in order to survive, Chancellor Gordon Gee today announced a major restructuring of the Vanderbilt athletics program.
Gee has asked David Williams II, vice chancellor for student life and university affairs, himself one of the most respected executives in college athletics, to lead the development of this new structure.
Gee said he hoped the new Vanderbilt structure could be a model for other universities seeking respite from the increasing disenfranchisement of big-time athletics programs from the university, but he is under no illusion that systemic changes will be quick or easy.
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 The Winchester Star-Briefly . . . Gee as Don Quixote?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Gee, chancellor of Vanderbilt University, is a man on a mission.
Gee announced that Vandy would do away with its athletic department and reorganize its sports programs so that scholarship athletes, heretofore totally isolated in their own special “fiefdoms,” might be integrated anew into the cultural life of the university —; complete with all the responsibilities that entails.
Among the reforms he has proposed: Athletes should be required to meet the requirements of a core curriculum — no more “sham” courses for the “permanent jockocracy” — and the number of athletic scholarships a school can award should be tied to the athletic graduation rates.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/030922/Opinion_briefly.asp   (360 words)

  
 Vanderbilt University: Office of the Chancellor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Gee places special emphasis on increasing Vanderbilt’s commitment to and participation within the community, specifically through the development and enhancement of world-class scholarship, teaching, public service and patient care.
Gee helps conduct Circle of Hope, a philanthropic leadership program organized by the Tennessee chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation; serves on the Board of Directors of the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute, Inc.; and is a member of the advisory committee for the Nashville Alliance for Public Education.
Gee previously served as president of Brown University, The Ohio State University, the University of Colorado, and West Virginia University.
www.vanderbilt.edu /chancellor/bio.html   (672 words)

  
 News and Information Services - WVU Today » Press Release
Gordon Gee, the former West Virginia president and law dean who helped grow the University during his time here, will deliver the Edward G. Donley Memorial Lecture next week at the College of Law.
Gee was also dean of the College of Law from 1979-81, and his colleague, current dean John Fisher, said the lecture will make for a nice homecoming.
Gee has also held university presidencies at the University of Colorado at Boulder (1985-90); Ohio State University (1990-98); and Brown University (1998-2000).
wvutoday.wvu.edu /news/page/3415   (384 words)

  
 NEWS: Kirkland prepares for WSJ article criticizing Gee | InsideVandy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
When asked about the upcoming article during the Fall Faculty Assembly on Aug. 24, Gee said he was aware of the article and its emphasis on Vanderbilt.
Gee told faculty members the reporter focuses on the university for three reasons: Vanderbilt is one of the nation’s great institutions, Gee is the first university president to leave an Ivy League institution for another school, and he is the longest sitting and highest paid president of a major university.
Gee reassured the faculty that Vanderbilt is a leading university, regardless of what the article contains.
www.insidevandy.com /drupal/node/373   (384 words)

  
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Brad Gee Brad is in the library reference department of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
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Gee Cross and Werneth The following is an extract from "Annals of Hyde" by Thomas Middleton and may be of interest to people researching the Gee family name and it's origins.
www.rahul.net /geeman/gees.htm   (1460 words)

  
 Where Most Needed: Governance and Gordon Gee
Gee has made a career of heading universities, starting with West Virginia University in 1981, when he was 37.
Gee's wife Constance (who is also a tenured professor at Vanderbilt) was smoking pot in the mansion.
Gee's liberal politics, is what got the attention of the trustees.
www.wheremostneeded.org /2006/09/governance_and_.html   (662 words)

  
 village voice > arts > Premature Evacuation by Blake A. Zeff
Neither Brown nor Gee dispute that his conservative, large-school background was a mismatch with the university.
Gee and Vanderbilt argue that a university president ought to be viewed in much the same way as a corporate CEO—free to explore all professional options—and that there is no obligation to stay at a university for any amount of time.
While Gee moves along to his record fifth university presidency next fall at Vanderbilt (Vanderbilt's chancellorship is the equivalent of most university presidencies), Brown's interim president, Sheila Blumstein, will continue to serve until a successor is named.
www.villagevoice.com /arts/0031,zeff,16938,12.html   (1396 words)

  
 Vanderbilt Creates Website to Defend Gordon Gee
While Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Michael Schoenfeld is quick to squelch any suggestion of controversy, noting that the university's board is supportive of Gee, it is worth adding that Vanderbilt saw fit to immediately address the Wall Street article with a special website posted at www.vanderbilt.edu/news/wsj-Q&A.
Gee is one of the most recognized figures in higher education.
Although he is currently the leader at this prestigious southern-based university, where he has raised more than $1 billion, he has led a total of five universities.
www.universitybusiness.com /ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=608   (315 words)

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