Chancellor Agrawal and the search committee for UMKC’s new provost and vice chancellor held an open forum for students, faculty and staff last week to share their input on what they want in a new provost. The position was left open after the former provost, Barbara Bichelmeyer,...

Annie Bolin and Lacey Clark Loved by some and reviled by others, UMKc’s general education program will soon be phased out. Anchor and Discourse, otherwise known as the UMKC General Education Core, is being revamped as UMKC Essentials, or GE2.0. The new program is designed...

Barbara Bichelmeyer joined UMKC as a provost and executive vice chancellor in the fall of 2015, nine weeks before the Ferguson protests made their way over to Columbia. Any other person in her position might be overwhelmed by the responsibility of carrying the university...