在我国，昨天是“五四”，美国人应该是没这个节日的。很奇怪，在美读书的小孩今天早上向我爆料，说他们的大学校长参加了该校学生的舞蹈表演，真有奇事吗？七十多岁的老头还真有时间和学生搞在一块？按照小孩提供的网址，全程看完了这段视频，在舞蹈即将结束的几十秒钟，真的看到了大学校长和学生共舞的场面，该视频结尾还专门打出了参加舞蹈表演特别嘉宾的名字：E. Gordon Gee ( the president of OSU)。眼见为实，我相信了。链接： http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTcwNDY0ODk2.html

   看了这段有大学校长参加的舞蹈表演的视频，我突然想起了小孩曾发给我的一些照片，其中包括在大雪时，该校学生自发在大学校园内堆出该校校长头像的雪人，并写上了校长的大名。

Biography

E Gordon Gee, among the most highly experienced and respected university presidents in the nation, returned to The Ohio State University after having served as Chancellor of Vanderbilt University for seven years. Prior to his tenure at Vanderbilt, he was president of Brown University (1998-2000), The Ohio State University (1990-97), the University of Colorado (1985-90), and West Virginia University (1981-85).

Born in Vernal, Utah, Gee graduated from the University of Utah with an honors degree in history and earned his J.D. and Ed.D degrees from Columbia University. He clerked under Chief Justice David T. Lewis of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals before being named a judicial fellow and staff assistant to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he worked for Chief Justice Warren Burger on administrative and legal problems of the Court and federal judiciary. Gee returned to Utah as an associate professor and associate dean in the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, eventually achieving the rank of full professor. In 1979 he was named dean of the West Virginia University Law School, and in 1981 was appointed to that university's presidency.

Active in a number of national professional and service organizations, Gee served as a Trustee for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation and as chairman of the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land Grant Universities. He is a member of the National Commission on Writing for America's Families, Schools, and Colleges, founded by the College Board to improve the teaching and learning of writing. He also serves as co-chair of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities' Energy Advisory Committee.

Gee is a member of the Board of Governors of the National Hospice Foundation, the Advisory Board of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the Board of Trustees of the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, an independent Federal government agency established to "encourage and support research, study and labor designed to produce new discoveries in all fields of endeavor for the benefit of mankind." He also is a member of the Business-Higher Education Forum.

Gee has received a number of honorary degrees, awards, and recognitions. He was a Mellon Fellow for the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and a W.K. Kellogg Fellow. In 1994, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Utah as well as from Teachers College of Columbia University. He is the co-author of eight books and the author of numerous papers and articles on law and education.

Gee's daughter, Rebekah, is an assistant professor of clinical medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tulane University and a Norman F. Gant/American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology/IOM Anniversary Fellow.

November 2009

(来源:OSU大学网站)

   看了这段有大学校长参加的舞蹈表演的视频，我还想起了有关北大前校长许智宏每年新年狂欢为学生献唱《隐形的翅膀》的报道，无独有偶，中外大学校长都喜欢做秀吗？

    其他国家我不敢说，当年本人在日学习时，有幸和大学校长一起唱过卡拉 OK，至今记忆犹新。

    实际上，在我国，象许校长这样的大学校长太少，学生大学4年，从未见校长长得是什么摸样的现象比较常见。

     我们期盼有更多的象许校长和E. Gordon Gee 校长一样的大学校长，从校长的宝座与神坛走下来与教师、学生亲近与同乐。这样的校长更受师生尊重与爱戴。