03/05/2013 12:19 PM
BATON ROUGE – Severe winter weather in the north has changed the travel plans for
The Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee who was scheduled to appear before
LSU’s Transition Advisory Team today. He will now address the group via Skype.
The Transition Advisory Team will meet Tuesday in the Abell Board Room of the Lod
Cook Alumni Center beginning at 4 p.m. and Gee is expected the address the group at
approximately 5:30 p.m. The meeting will be available by live streaming video.
Gee is serving his second term as president of Ohio State, joining the university
in 2007 after previously serving as president there from 1990-98. As chief executive
officer, he oversees Ohio State’s six campuses, 65,000 students, and 48,000 faculty
and staff. Gee is widely considered one of the most highly experienced and respected
leaders in higher education, having been named by Time Magazine as one of the top
10 university presidents in the country in 2009.
In addition to his service at Ohio State, he led Vanderbilt University from 2001-07,
Brown University from 1998-2000, the University of Colorado from 1985 to 1990 and
West Virginia University from 1981-85.
Live streaming video of the meeting will be available at http://lsu.edu/tat. All
users may enter as guests. Users must have the latest version of Adobe Flash player
for access. Users can go to http://na1cps.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm and determine if their computer has the latest version of Adobe Flash.
More information on LSU’s reorganization process can be found at www.lsu.edu/LSU2015. Agendas for all meetings are also posted on this site.
Herb Vincent
University Relations
225-578-1863
vincent@lsu.edu
Billy Gomila
LSU Media Relations
225-578-3867
bgomila@lsu.edu
Posted on Tuesday, March 5, 2013