Office of the Provost

Physical location

Administrative Center
5115 Oak St.
Room 300G
Kansas City, MO 64110

Mailing address

Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Administrative Center
5100 Rockhill Road
Room 300G
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499

Phone

816-235-1107

Fax

816-235-5509

Office hours

8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday

Staff

Erma Artist, Administrative Assistant
Phone: (816) 235-1107
artiste@umkc.edu 
Answers main phone line, processes payment methods for expenditures, and assist in fiscal matters

Beci Edmundson, Faculty Affairs Specialist
Phone: (816) 235-2721
edmundsonr@umkc.edu 
Assistant to the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs (Dr. Denis Medeiros) in the areas of promotion & tenure, awards, and all academic personnel processes including recruitment, hiring, leaves, grievance, evaluation and review, extra compensation, summer pay, and the Olson Professorship program

Juno Friedman, Executive Staff Assistant III
Phone: (816) 235-1024
friedmanj@umkc.edu 
Assistant to the Provost

Amy Watson, Executive Staff Assistant III
Phone: (816) 235-5623
watsonar@umkc.edu
Assistant to the Deputy Provost (Dr. Cindy Pemberton); Administrative support for the Academic Policy Development Task Force, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Program Evaluation Committee, Honors College Task Force, University College Advisory Council, as well as other strategic plan implementation committees, search committees, or working groups as necessary; Coordinator for new faculty orientation, academic program review site visits, center & institute annual reviews, and other projects as assigned.

DeOnna White, Administrative Associate I
Phone: (816) 235-6476
whitedg@umkc.edu
Assistant to Mary Lou Hines Fritts

Graduate Assistants

Julie Kohlhart, MA
Phone: (816) 235-6446
jdk972@mail.umkc.edu 
Provost website and blog

Jesse Riggs
jarf25@mail.umkc.edu 
Assistant to Nathan Lindsay, academic assessment