Dive Summary:
- The president emeritus of The Ohio State University will receive about $5.8 million over the next five years as part of the university's compensation package after his comments about Catholics and the University of Notre Dame drew criticism.
- E. Gordon Gee will be a tenured law professor, researcher and speaker and will have a provision that allows him to work at the university for as long as he wants.
- Gee had been the highest-paid public-university president in the country and one of the most prominent; Time magazine called him the nation’s best college president in 2009.
From the article:
... Gee was publicly chastised by his Board of Trustees in May for comments he made at a December meeting of the university’s Athletics Council. Those comments were reported that month by the Associated Press. He said Notre Dame was never invited to join the Big Ten because the university's priests are not good partners, joking that “those damn Catholics” can't be trusted. ...
