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Gordon Gee: All of the Bow Ties
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tax money at work.
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Says it is all from the endowment so they are all donated funds. Still though, I bet the alums that donated would like to see their money go to better use.
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Gordon Gee is actually a pretty amazing university President here. Everyone loves him, in part because he actually walks around off campus neighborhoods and is known to go right into booze-fests and take pictures with all of the inebriated students. He's a complete 180 from Lloyd Jacobs (President at UT) whom the students regard as cold, distant, and a bafoon.
Gee realizes that you need to run Ohio State like a corporation. Under his tenure, the university has raised billions and has spent the money on completely rebuilding the campus.
Ohio State now has a brand new Union...
...the best rec center in the country...
...is building a revolutionary new cancer hospital...
...a brand new library expansion...
to go along with a complete new Business campus...
...and new Architecture building, new Chemical Engineering building, new Physics research building, completely redoing every dorm on campus, new thermal energy plants, etc etc etc.
They even built a new Campus gateway recently...
...and are completely rebuilding North Campus...
There's a reason Ohio State's median ACT score was a 28. They are raising money from the massive alumni base, and using it to build awesome improvements under the notion that "if you build it, they will come." The school is booming. Gee runs the show, he will make bank.
Gee realizes that you need to run Ohio State like a corporation. Under his tenure, the university has raised billions and has spent the money on completely rebuilding the campus.
Ohio State now has a brand new Union...
...the best rec center in the country...
...is building a revolutionary new cancer hospital...
...a brand new library expansion...
to go along with a complete new Business campus...
...and new Architecture building, new Chemical Engineering building, new Physics research building, completely redoing every dorm on campus, new thermal energy plants, etc etc etc.
They even built a new Campus gateway recently...
...and are completely rebuilding North Campus...
There's a reason Ohio State's median ACT score was a 28. They are raising money from the massive alumni base, and using it to build awesome improvements under the notion that "if you build it, they will come." The school is booming. Gee runs the show, he will make bank.
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spin it however you want Bluth...that 64K spent on bow ties (are You F-ing kidding me?) could have been spent on tuition for some needy kids out your way. this type of stuff is what is killing this country: a 15M pay pkg being justified b/c the guy put up some buildings.
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lolol You know he donates all of his bonuses back to the school right?
For what it's worth, here's the picture of his collection:
It isn't $64,000 for bow ties. It's $64,000 on that, and giveaways for him to give to people. It's smoozing money.
This isn't at all the stuff that is killing this country. The envy might be, however. "Put up some buildings" is so laughable. The guy is a professional fundraiser--that's a huge part of a President's job--and has hit the ball out of the park since he's been back.
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Umm, he's still using the schools money...
Let's not act like if its tax dollars, it's fine.
This is far from fine.
This just summarizes everything that's wrong with our country's university system...
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It is fine.
This is wear that money goes. You have to spent money to make money. And the university wisely spends big time money on their celebrity Gee to do big time smoozing to raise BIG time funds.
And it is big time funds:
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If you think this is fine, then you are bigger fool than I thought.
Watch this country's university bubble collapse. It's only a matter of time at this rate.
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It's easy to be shocked at the numbers thrown around. However, you have to look at the results. The article says he's helped raise 1.6 billion. He also oversees an operation that is similar, numbers-wise, to a city, over 100 thousand people including students. That's a lot of bananas and a lot of people.
You also have to look at the big picture in terms of putting up buildings etc. All of that contributes to the community through employment, education, graduates leaving and contributing on their own etc. That does a lot more, in my opinion, than giving away 6 scholarships instead of spending money on bow ties.
You also have to look at the big picture in terms of putting up buildings etc. All of that contributes to the community through employment, education, graduates leaving and contributing on their own etc. That does a lot more, in my opinion, than giving away 6 scholarships instead of spending money on bow ties.
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I don't care about this one particular president, I expect all large schools do this.
That's my problem.
And the fact that "this is fine" is a delusional statement to make.
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That will have nothing to do with this, and Ohio State and CIC schools will more than likely be spared from that bubble.
You could criticize Ohio State's policy to make sophomores live in dorms starting in the near future and say that is adding unnecessary costs to students (with the hope of improving the rental market due to a ~30% drop in demand), but not this.
Even if Gee used $10,000,000 annually in costs and compensation, if he turned around and give it all back to the students it would be $100 per student per semester (assuming 50,000 students, it's even more). The overwhelming majority of students here would pay Gee $100 to do his job of raising capital for the university's emergence into the upper echelon of universities. It's making everyone's degree worth more and thus ultimately making you more money.
It's as simple as spending more to make money. Only OSU is spending a lot of money to raise a lot of money. Get over it.
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But if schools follow this model, why do almost all schools continue to raise tuition?
If they have so much money, this shouldn't be a problem.
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You're trying to defend a broken system.
It's not just OSU. And it is broken, everywhere.
It's not just OSU. And it is broken, everywhere.
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I can't speak for other universities, but generally its cuts in state funding, and a host of truly legitimate waste (i.e. overpaid Humanities professors).
Not all universities have "so much money," Ohio State does because it is harnessing the power of his massive alumni and fan base. That's why Gee plays up the football so much. Football raises a tonnnn of money indirectly too. Its endowment is $2.1Bil, up from $1.7Bil in 2005 (down from $2.3Bil in 2007...premarket crash). That's pretty impressive considering that they spend all of their generated money on new projects.
The new hospital alone will be $1.1Bil. That thing will truly put Ohio State "on the map."
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This has NOTHING to do with the system. I criticize the system all of the time. But this is not the system. You are associating it with the system falsely.
Gee is Ohio State's psuedo-playboy celeb who goes around making alumni smile and throw cash at him for him to build buildings with.
We're bitching about $7.7m over five years, when the universities budget is $4.95B this year alone?
Literally were complaining about him spending $7.7M over the time that the university spent a budget (assuming years remained the same) of $24.75 BILLION?
$7,700,000/$24,750,000 = .00031% of the budget on Gee's fundraising lifestyle. OMGZZZ
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One thing we can all hopefully agree on is that being President of a university sounds like a terrific job.
ok so figure 20K for in state and 36k for out of state this year. (all in: tuition room and board)
any idea what it was 10 yrs ago? 15 yrs ago?
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It would be so awesome. One ofthe best jobs ever.
Wake up at 7am, go to your office and hear reports, then have a lunch meeting with a donor, then attend an event and talk, then go home and have dinner with rich donors. Then repeat Monday-Friday. Throw in some tours of Ohio, national meetings, etc etc. It's the life.
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I have no idea. What I do know is that Gee is heading the Governor's council to streamline public education in Ohio to lower costs.
Seen here next to Kasich in meeting with all of the Ohio public Presidents.
This has included teaming up with Columbus State CC to share space and streamline enrollment/transfer credits. Gee made Ohio State switch from quarters to semester (a huge deal) to get on board with a State-wide shift to streamline public school credits in an attempt to lower costs via greater efficiency.
Bluth i hear what your saying on this guy...and i understand a university has to "spend money to make money" and of cpourse they al need a figurehead to do all the scmoozing.
but i wonder, does the comparison the article pointed out of other universities presidents that are similar in size to pOSU (they used Texas and Michigan as examples) demostrate to you that pOSU is overpaying for him for what he brings in?
those others do more with much less it appears:
E. Gordon Gee, Ohio State University, $1.9 million a year compensation, plus a car, house and access to charter jets. Travel, housing, entertainment spending 2007-mid-2012: $7.7 million
Bill Powers, University of Texas at Austin, $663,000 a year in compensation, no car or house, access to state-owned aircraft. Travel and entertainment spending 2007 to 2011: $$310,360
Mary Sue Coleman, University of Michigan, $860,782 a year in compensation, plus a car and house, flies commercial. Travel and entertainment spending 2007 to 2011: $410,235. Housing upkeep costs another $100,000 a year.
There are signs that OSU isn’t keeping pace nationally on the size of its endowment. OSU slipped from 27th in the four years preceding Gee’s return to Columbus to 31st in 2010-11, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the Commonfund Institute. The Big 10 universities Northwestern, Minnesota, and Michigan all ranked above Ohio State for the size of their endowment
in comparison and costrast to his peers...i'd say this fundraising emperor has no clothes.
but i wonder, does the comparison the article pointed out of other universities presidents that are similar in size to pOSU (they used Texas and Michigan as examples) demostrate to you that pOSU is overpaying for him for what he brings in?
those others do more with much less it appears:
E. Gordon Gee, Ohio State University, $1.9 million a year compensation, plus a car, house and access to charter jets. Travel, housing, entertainment spending 2007-mid-2012: $7.7 million
Bill Powers, University of Texas at Austin, $663,000 a year in compensation, no car or house, access to state-owned aircraft. Travel and entertainment spending 2007 to 2011: $$310,360
Mary Sue Coleman, University of Michigan, $860,782 a year in compensation, plus a car and house, flies commercial. Travel and entertainment spending 2007 to 2011: $410,235. Housing upkeep costs another $100,000 a year.
There are signs that OSU isn’t keeping pace nationally on the size of its endowment. OSU slipped from 27th in the four years preceding Gee’s return to Columbus to 31st in 2010-11, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the Commonfund Institute. The Big 10 universities Northwestern, Minnesota, and Michigan all ranked above Ohio State for the size of their endowment
in comparison and costrast to his peers...i'd say this fundraising emperor has no clothes.