Elwood Gordon Gee (born February 2, 1944 in Vernal, Utah) is an American academic. He is in his second tenure as the president of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio; he was previously president from 1990 to 1997.
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 Univ...
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Elwood Gordon Gee (born February 2, 1944 in Vernal, Utah) is an American academic. He is in his second tenure as the president of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio; he was previously president from 1990 to 1997.
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 salary is $775,000. Time magazine rated Gee the best college president in the country.
Gee attended the University of Utah where he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, and graduated with a bachelor of arts in history in 1968. After earning doctorates in law and education from Columbia University in 1971 and 1972, respectively, specializing in education law, Gee clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren...
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