The article also mentions Constance Gee briefly. The chancellor and his wife helped raise more than $1 billion over five years while spending $700,000 per year entertaining and running the office.
The book’s title references a 2006 article from The Wall Street Journal subtitled “Marijuana at the Mansion,” which investigated Gordon Gee, then-chancellor of Vanderbilt, and his expenditure as a socializing fundraiser.Īfter five months of reporting by Joann Lublin and Daniel Golden, the front-page story described Vanderbilt’s Board of Trustees as out of touch and unable to contain then chancellor Gordon Gee. Gordon Gee remembers her time as first lady and faculty member at OSU, Vanderbilt University and Brown University in “Higher Education: Marijuana at the Mansion,” her new self-published memoir. Updated March 2015.Gee's ex-wife reflects on marijuana scandal, marriageĬonstance Bumgarner Gee is not afraid to speak about her marijuana use and isn’t afraid to write about it either. Gant/American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology/IOM Anniversary Fellow.įor more information on Gee's first term, please see E. Gee’s daughter, Rebekah, is the Medicaid Medical Director for the State of Louisiana, and an assistant professor of Public Health and Medicine at Louisiana State University. He is also the author of numerous papers and articles on law and education. He is the co-author of 11 books, including Law, Policy and Higher Education, published in 2012. In 2013, he received the ACE Council of Fellows/Fidelity Investments Mentor Award and received the Outstanding Academic Leader of the Year Award on behalf of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In 1994, Gee received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Utah, as well as from Teachers College of Columbia University. He is a fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest science organization. Gee has received a number of honorary degrees, awards, fellowships, and recognitions. And in December 2012, he was asked to serve on the Columbus Education Commission. In 2011-2012, he was asked by Governor Kasich to chair both the Ohio Higher Education Capital Funding Collaborative and the Ohio Higher Education Funding Commission. In 2011, Gee was appointed to serve as secretary on the Board of Directors of Ohio’s economic development program, JobsOhio.
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In 2009, Gee was invited to join the International Advisory Board of King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia.Īctive in a number of national professional and service organizations during his tenures, he has served on the boards for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., Limited Brands, and the National 4-H Council. He was chair of the American Council on Education's Commission on Higher Education Attainment and served as co-chair of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities’ Energy Advisory Committee. Gee has been a member of several education-governance organizations and committees, including the Big Ten Conference Council of Presidents, the Inter-University Council of Ohio, the Business-Higher Education Forum, and the American Association of Universities.
One year later, he was named dean of the West Virginia University Law School, and, in 1981, was appointed to that university’s presidency.
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Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, and was granted full professorship in 1978. Gee returned to Utah as an associate professor and associate dean in the J. In this role, he worked for Chief Justice Warren Burger on administrative and legal problems of the Court and federal judiciary.
10th Circuit Court of Appeals before being named a judicial fellow and staff assistant to the U.S. and Ed.D degrees from Columbia University. Prior to his service at Ohio State, he led Vanderbilt University (2001-2007), Brown University (1998-2000), the University of Colorado (1985-1990), and West Virginia University (1981-1985). Gee has served in higher education for more than three decades and in 2009 was named by Time magazine as one of the top-10 university presidents in the United States.īorn in Vernal, Utah, Gee graduated from the University of Utah with an honors degree in history and earned his J.D. Gordon Gee served as president of The Ohio State University from 1990 to 1997 and again from 2007 to 2013.
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