Kudos to the Big D
Monday, September 29th, 2008 By Mike Maurer
Nice story in the Dispatch following up on Ohio State University’s generous payments to its executives. Gordon Gee isn’t merely telling funny stories and wearing bow ties. He’s nearly doubling the payroll of his top executives, increasing their number and their pay.
Don’t worry, though. Sen. Bill Harris, Ashland Republican and senate president, is hot on the case: “I’m more than willing to be patient to see if Dr. Gee can reach his goal of pushing Ohio State into the Top 10 — and hopefully make it the No. 1 university in the nation.”
Rah, rah. Pretty soon Ohio State will be World Class. Probably Harris is sanguine because he figures if Joyce Beatty is worth $320,000, why, a senate president must be worth, what, half a mil?
One of Gee’s Lieutenants, Larry Lewellen, associate vice president for human resources, says not to worry, they know what they’re doing.
“We pay far less than the private market, where leaders can make multimillions of dollars,” Lewellen says.
Indeed. Ohio taxpayers would be happy to let them go do so. We hear there are lots of openings at Lehman Brothers.
