Embattled Ohio U President Reappointed; Ohio State Wants Its Former President Back

An Associated Press article in the Akron Beacon Journal reports that the Ohio University Board of Trustees has reappointed Roderick J. McDavis, the university’s embattled president, to the post for another year. Read more.

Meanwhile, Ohio State University trustees wish their former president would come back. They’re reportedly trying to lure E. Gordon Gee — who led the university from 1990 through 1997 — to return to their campus for another term, according to an item on The Chronicle’s News Blog. So far, Gee —who’s now chancellor of Vanderbilt University — isn’t biting. An article in the Columbus Dispatch has more details.