Resigning Brown University President E. Gordon Gee.
E. Gordon Gee, the 17th president of Brown University, has resigned the Brown presidency and accepted an appointment as chancellor of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. His appointment, effective Aug. 1, was announced Feb. 7 by Vanderbilt officials at a news conference in Nashville. Gee will remain at Brown until April 15. ”Members of the Brown Corp. are disappointed that President Gee has chosen to leave. He was an energetic and exciting president and we are sorry his tenure has been brought to an end after two years,” said Stephen Robert, chancellor of the university. “I am confident that the student body, faculty and administration will work together to keep Brown moving forward. Brown is an institution of great strength and extraordinary academic quality, ranking among the nation’s and the world’s foremost institutions of higher learning.”
Robert will head the corporation’s search committee, the membership of which will be announced at the corporation’s next meeting, Feb. 24 to 26.
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Although the Brown Charter of 1764 gives the corporation sole responsibility for selecting the university’s presidents, the corporation is assisted in that task by a campus-based advisory committee of faculty, students, and administrators. That campus advisory committee will also be constituted later this month.
An interim president will be named by April, Robert said.
