Barbara Uehling


Barbara Uehling Charlton was an American educator and university administrator. She served as the 3rd chancellor and 17th chief executive officer of the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Missouri. She was the first woman in the United States to lead a land-grant university. Before coming to Missouri, Uehling served as provost for the University of Oklahoma. After leaving the University of Missouri, she served as a Senior Visiting Fellow on the American Council of Education in Washington D.C. and later served as Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Personal life

Uehling received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Wichita State University in 1954, and a PhD in experimental psychology at Northwestern University. She died from complications of Alzheimer's disease on January 2, 2020.