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Only the best for UT's Shumaker Pay package was nation's second-highest By Richard Locker locker@gomemphis.com August 17, 2003 NASHVILLE - After his selection as UT president last year, Dr. John W. Shumaker said his goal was "to give the people of Tennessee the very best university they can afford while urging them constantly to afford the very best." It appears that Shumaker convinced state officials to afford the very best when it came to his own pay: His compensation package was worth $733,000 to $800,000 a year in direct and deferred salary and bonuses, plus posh housing, an automobile and...

Audit shows Shumaker lived it up while UT paid the bill By Duncan Mansfield, The Associated Press August 14, 2003 KNOXVILLE - Former University of Tennessee president John Shumaker tipped well, traveled extensively and lived lavishly, according to an internal audit released Wednesday. It listed such expenditures as $6,000 for a flight to Greece, more than $165,000 for tailgate parties, and nearly $500,000 for furnishings and improvements to his residence. "I think people will be mad about it and I think that anger is appropriate," Gov. Phil Bredesen, who is chairman of the UT Board of Trustees, said at a...