Farewell to an Academic Buffoon

Gordon Gee’s peripatetic and colorful academic career – president of West Virginia University, University of Colorado, Vanderbilt, Brown, and Ohio State – has come to a self-inflicted end. Mr. Gee was an able fundraiser, which seems to be what those charge of civilizing and educating the next generation are mostly concerned with in these times. Get the endowment up. Get the government(s) to appropriate more. Encourage students to take on more debt. For his undeniable success in these endeavors, Mr. Gee was paid by Ohio State University a tidy $1.9 million.