<p>Wow! Less than a month’s notice. Usually departures at this level are planned and announced long in advance to allow a comprehensive search for a successor and a smooth transition, without an “interim.” I guess they said “Jump, or we’ll push you out,” and he jumped.</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/05/25/district-may-tap-osu-provost-as-fill-in-chief.html[/url]”>http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/05/25/district-may-tap-osu-provost-as-fill-in-chief.html</a></p>
<p>Dr. Alutto (a Cornellian) was also serving as the interim president prior to Dr. Gee’s hire when Karen Holbrook left. So there is no issue here for the university. In case you are wondering Dr. Alutto is one of the closest colleagues/administrators to Gee as hewas hired by Gordon back during his first presidency at the Ohio State in the '90s. He was also our Vice President for the Academic Affair up until last month.</p>
<p>“Wow! Less than a month’s notice. Usually departures at this level are planned and announced long in advance to allow a comprehensive search for a successor and a smooth transition, without an “interim.” I guess they said “Jump, or we’ll push you out,” and he jumped.”</p>
<p>I am sure that is exactly what happened bclintonk.</p>
<p>Well, good riddance, I say. That guy was a blowhard with an extravagant lifestyle that gave academic administration a bad name.</p>
<p>^^ Indeed. However, in comparison with the disgraced PSU president, Gee made far less! :p</p>
<p>Top 10 highest-paid public university presidents in fiscal 2012:</p>
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<li>Graham B. Spanier*, Pennsylvania State University, $2,906,271</li>
<li>Jay Gogue, Auburn University, $2,542,865</li>
<li>E. Gordon Gee, Ohio State University, $1,899,420</li>
<li>Alan G. Merten*, George Mason University, $1,869,369</li>
<li>Jo Ann M. Gora, Ball State University, $984,647</li>
<li>Mary Sue Coleman, University of Michigan, $918,783</li>
<li>Charles W. Steger, Virginia Tech, $857,749</li>
<li>Mark G. Yudof, University of California, $847,149</li>
<li>Bernard J. Machen, University of Florida, $834,562</li>
<li>Francisco G. Cigarroa, University of Texas, $815,833</li>
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<p>[University</a> of Michigan leader Mary Sue Coleman 6th-highest-paid public university president in U.S.](<a href=“http://www.annarbor.com/news/university-of-michigan-leader-mary-sue-coleman-6th-highest-paid-public-university-president-in-us/]University”>University of Michigan leader Mary Sue Coleman 6th-highest-paid public university president in U.S.)</p>
<p>Gee worked wonders to improve OSU academics/research, fundraising and student profile. Same for Vanderbilt. If anyone thinks that is easy, try it.</p>
<p>[University</a> of Michigan leader Mary Sue Coleman 6th-highest-paid public university president in U.S.](<a href=“http://www.annarbor.com/news/university-of-michigan-leader-mary-sue-coleman-6th-highest-paid-public-university-president-in-us/]University”>University of Michigan leader Mary Sue Coleman 6th-highest-paid public university president in U.S.)</p>
<p>She has donated her annual increase in pay back the university most years. Mary Sue Coleman will be retiring just like Gee. In her case it is planned for 2014. If she were ever foolish enough to make the same comments as Gee, she would have been asked to resign immediately.</p>
<p>Retiring Ohio State University chief draws praise</p>
<p>By The Associated Press,
Updated 4:48 pm, Tuesday, June 4, 2013</p>
<p>Read more: [Retiring</a> Ohio State University chief draws praise - SFGate](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Retiring-Ohio-State-University-chief-draws-praise-4577019.php#ixzz2VIzNZdjS]Retiring”>http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Retiring-Ohio-State-University-chief-draws-praise-4577019.php#ixzz2VIzNZdjS)</p>
<p>Back to the LAX issue.</p>
<p>Good move for the B1G. Funny how the ACC is becoming less and less relevant in the arena and in the bank account. I think the B1G has played this expansion game quite well without really burning any bridges like the ACC did with its repeated raid of the Big East.</p>
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<p>I think these figures (post #1445) are a little misleading. Spanier’s compensation in FY 2012 was obscene, but that’s mostly a severance package combined with deferred compensation that he elected to take as a one-time lump sum payment. He doesn’t show up anywhere near the top of previous tables of college and university administrators’ compensation. </p>
<p>Gee thought he was worth $2 million a year and negotiated a contract that paid him that much. Who knows what his severance package and deferred compensation will look like once the FY 2013 figures are out? I’m betting somewhere in the $5 million range. He made tOSU pay through the nose to keep him, and I’m thinking he made them pay even more to make him go away.</p>
<p>I’m not even saying he wasn’t worth that much to Ohio State. Obviously, the Trustees thought he was, and there’s no question he did a lot for the university. But to make that much at a public university that meets full need for only 12.7% of its students and on average meets only 55% of need, his compensation was . . . well, just unseemly. The man had no sense of proportion.</p>
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<p>What are you TALKING about? You do realize that Duke just won the men’s lacrosse and the ACC placed the most players on the top national team.</p>
<p>Some of the talk on this thread is a bit hilarious, like when UNC was allegedly going to the B1G. Never. No interest. The ACC teams actually like the ACC. </p>
<p>I live in B1G country, with the originals, but even I can see how ridiculous this expansion is, driven by football and ESPN. Honestly, it’s better for “student athletes” to be in close by and smaller conferences. It’s hard enough to be a student athlete with all the demands, but this money driven system is just wrong.</p>
<p>The students can not even be given stipends by the boosters, but they are expected to produce millions and millions for the coaches and the rest of it. Exploitation. B1G exploitation.</p>
<p>How can you study under those circumstances? I see no reason to brag on this Television driven development. Are they student athletes? Do we care about their education? Or are they just free labor?</p>
<p>“Retiring Ohio State University chief draws praise…”</p>
<p>…mostly from people in Ohio. Here is one view of someone not from the immediate surrounding area:</p>
<p>[Ohio</a> State arrogance comes before the fall of Gordon Gee - NCAA Football - Sporting News](<a href=“http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2013-06-04/ohio-state-gordon-gee-retires-comments-jim-tressel-terrelle-pryor-arrogance]Ohio”>http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2013-06-04/ohio-state-gordon-gee-retires-comments-jim-tressel-terrelle-pryor-arrogance)</p>
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<p>@bclintonk,</p>
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<p>[OSU</a> wants $100 million for in-state scholarships | The Columbus Dispatch](<a href=“http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/02/01/ohio-state-wants-100-million-for-in-state-scholarships.html]OSU”>http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/02/01/ohio-state-wants-100-million-for-in-state-scholarships.html)</p>
<p>In case any of you have not been aware of, the $100 million student scholarship fund announced recently by Ohio State Board of Trustees was one of many great things Gee had suggested in addition to the $116 million raised for the students in a separate campaign. In short, as I had alluded many times in the past, academically, Gee was indeed a transformational leader/president for tOSU and worth every dime imho (at least for the last 6 years) for putting up a masterpiece of “One University frame work” in addition to the introduction of the 1st ever “STEP program” on campus living experience for the upcoming freshmen and sophomores living in the dorms.</p>
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<p>[$370</a> Million Project Underway at Ohio State | School Construction News](<a href=“http://www.schoolconstructionnews.com/articles/2013/05/1/contractor-and-designer-chosen-ohio-state-s-370-million-student-housing-project]$370”>$370 Million Project Underway at Ohio State - School Construction News)</p>
<p>Although Gee has raised $1.6 billion for the school since his return which included $100 million from his buddy Leslie Wexner and another $100 million from the Feds by pulling his weight for the expanding medical center, I do agree with “bclintonk” that Gee is certainly pricy to retain and that it is time to pass the torch now that he has sowed the seeds for the school to excel academically in the decades to come. </p>
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<p>[Ohio</a> State President E. Gordon Gee to retire | The Columbus Dispatch](<a href=“http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/public/2013/06/ohio-state-president-gee.html]Ohio”>http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/public/2013/06/ohio-state-president-gee.html)</p>
<p>@rjk,</p>
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<p>Time’s List of The 10 Best College Presidents 2010</p>
<h1>1 The Big Man on Campus</h1>
<p><a href=“http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1937938_1937934_1937914,00.html[/url]”>http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1937938_1937934_1937914,00.html</a></p>
<p>“Time’s List of The 10 Best College Presidents 2010”</p>
<p>That was three years ago, before foot in mouth disease took over. Now…</p>
<p>[Gordon</a> Gee quotes show all of his infamous missteps at Ohio State - NCAA Football - Sporting News](<a href=“http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2013-06-04/gordon-gee-famous-quotes-jim-tressel-little-sisters-of-poor-polish-army-bielema]Gordon”>http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2013-06-04/gordon-gee-famous-quotes-jim-tressel-little-sisters-of-poor-polish-army-bielema)</p>
<p>^^ G’nite, rjk! :)</p>
<p>Ohio State’s Gordon Gee was a lousy comedian, not a lousy president</p>
<p>Read More: [Ohio</a> State’s Gordon Gee was a lousy comedian, not a lousy president - College Football - Andy Staples - SI.com](<a href=“http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130604/gee-resigns-at-ohio-state-over-bad-jokes/#ixzz2VK3y2uM0]Ohio”>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130604/gee-resigns-at-ohio-state-over-bad-jokes/#ixzz2VK3y2uM0)</p>
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<p>What makes the statement even more ludicrous is that with Syracuse (July 1st) now in the fold current ACC members have won 11 of the last 15 Men’s D1 Lacrosse titles. Which combined with the fact that the ACC has the most Lax titles (both men’s and women’s) of all conferences (and that is without Syracuse is factored in) makes the ACC the SEC of Lax. Although admittedly without Maryland their Women’s Lax will suffer. </p>
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<p>Agreed, it seems it was all a rumor spread by B1G homers just as I predicted, now that the Grant of Rights deal is in place no team can think of leaving the conference until 2027.</p>
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<p>UC has always been lower paying for top jobs given high COL. It really hurt their hiring of coaches until they apparently scrapped the policy for coaches when UCLA hired new FB coach. </p>
<p>Also JHU is supposed to apply for CIC membership too.</p>
<p>[Penn</a> State Lacrosse Programs to Join Big Ten - Penn State Official Athletic Site](<a href=“http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/m-lacros/spec-rel/060313aac.html]Penn”>http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/m-lacros/spec-rel/060313aac.html)</p>
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<p>Window dressing. According to tOSU’s 2012-13 common data set, the school gave out $84 million in need-based grants/scholarships for the 2012-23 academic year. That was enough to meet full need for 16.4% of the students determined to have need; on average, the school met 69% of need (both of these figures are improvements on the FY 2011 figures which I cited earlier, by the way, for which Gee deserves some credit).</p>
<p>Gee isn’t talking about raising $100 million per year; he’s talking about a one-time infusion of $100 million. At a standard 5% payout, that would produce an additional $5 million/year in FA money on a recurring basis. That will help, no doubt, but it represents a 6% increase in tOSU’s current need-based FA budget—if, in fact, it’s going to improve need-based aid, which it may not be because they’re talking about passing it around in the form of 1 full-tuition scholarship per county, which sounds more like a merit scholarship. In any even, regardless of how it’s actually spent, it still leaves tOSU woefully short of meeting full need. </p>
<p>$100 million is a nice, round, impressive-sounding number that’s chosen because . . . well, because it sounds impressive, and people who don’t realize a university like Ohio State is actually a multi-billion dollar/year enterprise will be impressed, not realizing it’s just a drop in the very large bucket of unmet financial need.</p>
<p>^^ Fair enough, bclintonk. Michigan operates similar budget compared to tOSU at over $5 billion a year; however, charges way more tuition than Ohio State for both IS and OOS students. Likewise, I am not impressed with UM’s student scholarship offering. Especially with its $7+ billion endowment, a few hundred million more should be a drop in the bucket for the students, no? On the other hand, Gee was able to convince the board of trustees at Ohio State to freeze tuition raise at least 3 out of his 6 years rein including this upcoming school year. And I have yet to see Mary Sue suggested the same for the students.</p>
<p>Ohio State University president Gordon Gee recommends tuition freeze</p>
<p>Read more: <a href=“http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/state/Ohio-State-University-president-Gordon-Gee-recommends-tuition-freeze#ixzz2VMnzN7Y7[/url]”>http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/state/Ohio-State-University-president-Gordon-Gee-recommends-tuition-freeze#ixzz2VMnzN7Y7</a></p>