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E. Gordon Gee

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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E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on August 25, 2023 an interview with The Daily Athenaeum
“Fewer than 2% of students are impacted whatsoever by the decisions we're making” to cut the budget.
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By Griff Bihun • October 10, 2023
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on August 18, 2023 an interview with the Daily Athenaeum
Foreign languages are “not a high priority” nationally
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By Derek Nastasi • October 6, 2023
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on June 21, 2019 a speech
"In West Virginia, we have 20,000 jobs in which we don’t have skilled workers."
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By Steven Murphy, Victoria Gennuso • December 6, 2019
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on March 19, 2019 a speech
"Our state has fewer science, technology, engineering and math graduates than any neighboring state."
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By Al Bernardi, Samantha Patrick • April 24, 2019
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on January 14, 2019 an op-ed
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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By Erica Anderson, Molly DeCarli • February 27, 2019
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on September 20, 2018 an interview with the Daily Athenaeum
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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By Mary Alice Truitt • October 29, 2018
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on February 12, 2018 a letter to the university community
West Virginia University’s incoming freshman class has the "highest-ever GPA"
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By Davis Versprille, Zack Schwehm • September 28, 2018
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on October 4, 2011 a comment to a reporter
"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 the violations."
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By Aaron Marshall • October 31, 2011
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