Forsee names UMKC interim chancellor

Monday, July 14, 2008 | 2:20 p.m. CDT; updated 4:54 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008

COLUMBIA — UM System President Gary Forsee named Leo Morton as the interim chancellor of the University of Missouri—Kansas City effective Aug. 1, a news release said. Morton is the current chairman of the UMKC Board of Trustees and previously served as a senior vice president and chief administrative officer at Aquila, a Kansas City-based natural gas utility company, the release said. (Aquila was acquired by Great Plains Energy Inc., its crosstown rival, on Monday.)

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