SMU Alumni named new UT Chancellor

[AfricanMustang]

The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees in a special called meeting today unanimously approved appointing Donde Plowman from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as the ninth chancellor of UT Knoxville at a base salary of $60,000 a year.

Her offer letter is at http://tennessee.edu/wp- content/uploads/2019/04/Donde-Plowman-Signed-Offer-Letter.pdf.

At Nebraska, Plowman operates as the No. 2 administrator over the campus and oversees academic affairs, student affairs, the Office of Research Economic Development and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Before being named executive vice chancellor, she served for more than six years as the James Jr. and Susan Stuart Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Prior to coming to Nebraska, Plowman was on the management faculty at UT Knoxville from 2007-10, serving as department head of the department of management for two years. She began her academic career at the University of Texas at San Antonio as an assistant professor of management and advanced to the position of professor and associate dean for graduate studies and research, where she was responsible for the creation of the doctorate degree in business.

Plowman received her undergraduate degree with a major in English from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She holds a master’s in higher education administration from the University of North Texas. She received her doctorate in strategic management from the University of Texas at Austin.

https://www.thedailytimes.com/news/ut-n ... 39703.html

[giacfsp]

Congratulations.

[PonySnob]

The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees in a special called meeting today unanimously approved appointing Donde Plowman from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as the ninth chancellor of UT Knoxville at a base salary of $60,000 a year.

Base salary is actually $600,000 per year.

[horsemanx]

No one "earns" 600 thousand.

[mrydel]

Heck, if I had know that I would have applied.

[redpony]

Heck, if I had know that I would have applied.

you can't- you're retired- remember???

[mrydel]

Heck, if I had know that I would have applied.

you can't- you're retired- remember???

I could have given them a good 6 months for $300,000