2012-17 Compensation records for Tennessee State U. CEOs and Former CEOs (Chronicle of Higher Education)

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Tennessee Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:

(I am seeking full-calendar-year values of compensation earned the following TN State employees, regardless of the role(s) they held for the given calendar year. Take this hypothetical as an example: Ms. Baskin-Glover earned $100,000 in base compensation from January 2018 to June 2018, compensation associated with her CEO and faculty roles. Then, from July 2018 to December 2018, Ms. Baskin-Glover earned $100,000 in base compensation associated with her role as a professor. The value I would be seeking for 2018 would be $200,000.)

The Chronicle wishes to request copies of the following records (however, we will accept information or values when if it reduces the work for your institution’s staff):

1. Records indicating the value of actual base compensation, reportable in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover, Portia Shields, and/or Melvin Johnson. The given calendar years: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

2. Records indicating the value of actual bonus compensation, reportable in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover, Portia Shields, and/or Melvin Johnson. The given calendar years: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

3. Records indicating the value of actual severance compensation (or similar compensation), reportable in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover, Portia Shields, and/or Melvin Johnson. The given calendar years: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

4. Records indicating the disbursement of any formerly deferred actual compensation, reportable in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover, Portia Shields, and/or Melvin Johnson. The given calendar years: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

5. Records indicating the value of any remaining reportable actual compensation, reportable in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover, Portia Shields, and/or Melvin Johnson. The given calendar years: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

6. Records indicating the value of any nonreportable actual deferred compensation (set aside in an account), recorded in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover, and/or Portia Shields. The given calendar years: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

7. Records indicating the value of any nonreportable other actual retirement compensation, recorded in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover, and/or Portia Shields. The given calendar years: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

8. Records indicating the value of any actual nontaxable benefits (https://bit.ly/ExecCompNontaxable), recorded in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover, and/or Portia Shields. The given calendar years: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

* Please provide materials in an electronic, searchable format when possible.
* I am requesting any lookup tables, field layouts code sheets or other documents needed to interpret the data.
* I request you to release all segregable portions of otherwise exempt material. Please consider each record an individual and severable request for purposes of release, exemption or invoking a time extension. If a portion of the requested materials are not immediately available, to the extent possible, please release immediately those records that are available.
* If possible, I request that these records be provided in an electronic format via email or digital download (via Dropbox, for example). If that is not possible, please provide them to me via mail with a CD-ROM. Please send all requested items via email to dan.bauman@chronicle.com.
* If there will be a cost for processing this request greater than $10, please contact me in advance. I would like an itemized list of the request costs, including the number of hours expected to produce the file and the hourly rate of the employee who would be doing the work.

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I am a representative of the news media seeking information as part of a news gathering effort and not for commercial use. This information is being sought on behalf of The Chronicle of Higher Education, a newspaper and news website based in Washington, DC. As such, I request a fee benefit.

If your agency does not maintain these public records, please let me know who does and include the proper custodian's name and address.

If my request is denied in whole or part, I ask that you justify all deletions by reference to specific exemptions of the act.

As I am making this request as a journalist and this information is of timely value, I would appreciate your communicating with me by telephone, rather than by mail, if you have questions regarding this request.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 7 business days, as the statute requires.

Please note that I am a citizen of Tennessee, and am using MuckRock's services to help manage and track my request.

Sincerely,

Kent Hoover