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Barbara Uehling Charlton (June 12, 1932 – January 2, 2020) was an American educator and university administrator. She served as the 3rd chancellor and 17th chief executive officer of the
University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded ...
campus in Columbia, Missouri. She was the first woman in the
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to lead a
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. Before coming to Missouri, Uehling served as provost for the
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. After leaving the University of Missouri, she served as a senior visiting fellow on the American Council of Education in
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and later served as chancellor of the
University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the ...
. Uehling and
Rosemary S. J. Schraer Rosemary S. J. Schraer (October 1, 1924 – April 10, 1992) was the fifth chancellor of the University of California, Riverside from 1987 to 1992. Schraer and UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Barbara Uehling were the first female chancellors in the h ...
were the first women to serve as UC chancellors.


Personal life

Uehling received her undergraduate degree in psychology from
Wichita State University Wichita State University (WSU) is a public research university in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The university offers more than 60 undergraduate degree programs in more than 200 areas of study in ...
in 1954, and a PhD in experimental psychology at
Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Chart ...
. She died from complications of Alzheimer's disease on January 2, 2020.


See also

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History of the University of Missouri The University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, was established in 1839. This later expanded to the statewide University of Missouri System. Founding and early years MU was founded in 1839 as part of the Geyer Act to establish a state land-g ...


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Uehling, Barbara S. Leaders of the University of Missouri People from Columbia, Missouri University of Oklahoma faculty University of California, Santa Barbara faculty Chancellors of the University of California, Santa Barbara 1932 births 2020 deaths