Gordon Gee
Gordon Gee
Elwood Gordon Geeis an American academic and is currently serving his second term as President of West Virginia University. He has served as the chief executive at several universities in the United States, previously serving at Ohio State University. Gee had been heading an Ohio State-based think tank following his retirement from the Ohio State presidency on July 1, 2013. He retired in response to a series of controversies relating to comments he made, the last of which involved anti-Catholic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth2 February 1944
CountryUnited States of America
I am a bit odd. I am somewhat evangelical. But I am not crazy.
I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.
Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.
People look at me like I'm crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges.
The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.
If people want to pigeon hole you then just view it as an opportunity to prove them wrong and show that you are different to what they think you are.
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.
I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.
College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.
To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.
You can’t trust those damn Catholics.
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
The issue that all of us face is that alumni love to have the institution frozen in amber. The truth of the matter is that for an institution to survive, it has to grow, to look at the world as it is rather than how they want it to be.