E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee is is president of West Virginia University. His current tenure in office began in 2014, but he was first named WVU president in 1981 at age 36 – at the time, among the youngest persons to ever serve as a university president. He led West Virginia University until 1985, then went on to presidencies at the University of Colorado (1985-90), Brown University (1998-2000) and Vanderbilt University (2001-07). He served as president of the Ohio State University from 1990-97 and again from 2007-13.
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“Fewer than 2% of students are impacted whatsoever by the decisions we're making” to cut the budget.
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Foreign languages are “not a high priority” nationally
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"In West Virginia, we have 20,000 jobs in which we don’t have skilled workers."
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"Our state has fewer science, technology, engineering and math graduates than any neighboring state."
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West Virginia has "the nation’s lowest workforce participation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, when the national average is about 63 percent."
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In public approval, "the press is rated right now below that of Congress, and that is very low; it’s in the single digits."
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West Virginia University’s incoming freshman class has the "highest-ever GPA"
"We are the poster child for compliance, and whenever we discover possible infractions we resolve and report it to the NCAA no matter how minor…