Former University of Missouri Chancellor Charles Kiesler has died in San Diego at the age of 68. Kiesler is credited with increasing diversity on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. Before arriving at MU, Kiesler served as provost of Vanderbilt University in Nashville from 1985 to 1992 and was dean of the Carnegie-Mellon University of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1983 to 1985. He later served as a member of the National Legislative Council of the American Association of Retired Persons and was directing the Fund for the Advancement of Psychological Sciences for the American Psychological Society when he died. Funeral services are scheduled for Tuesday in San Diego.
