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Charles Brice Ratchford (better known as C. Brice Ratchford) (1920 – December 18, 1997) was the 15th president of the
University of Missouri System The University of Missouri System is an American state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, and ten research and technology parks. Nearly 70,000 students are cur ...
from 1970 to 1976.


Early life

Ratchford was raised in
Gastonia, North Carolina Gastonia is the largest city in and county seat of Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. It is the second-largest satellite city of the Charlotte area, behind Concord. The population was 80,411 at the 2020 census, up from 71,741 in 2 ...
. He attended junior college at Brevard College. He received a bachelor's and master's in agricultural economics from
North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universi ...
(then called college) in 1942 and 1947 respectively. He also received a doctorate in economics from Duke University in 1951.https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/1347/SpectrumV24No6Dec97.pdf?sequence=1 Ratchford helped build North Carolina's extension program.


University of Missouri

He came to the University of Missouri in 1959 as director of the Missouri Cooperative Extension Service, was named dean of extension in 1960 and vice president of extension in 1965 (when the four campus University of Missouri system was created). In October 1970 he was named interim president of the Missouri system and became full-time president in 1971. He resigned in 1976 citing health concerns. He took a sabbatical working for the extension service at
Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public insti ...
but returned to Missouri in 1977 to work again in the extension service and teach agricultural economics.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ratchford, C. Brice 1920 births 1997 deaths People from Gastonia, North Carolina North Carolina State University alumni Duke University alumni Presidents of the University of Missouri System