Wheelock, former UMKC professor of education and director of the Reading Clinic in the Language and Literacy Group, served the University and its students for approximately 40 years. A former elementary school teacher and psychologist, Wheelock has conducted and supervised thousands of reading and clinic case studies. He also co-authored reading series and textbooks, including the Classroom Reading Inventory, one of the most-used college texts in teaching reading diagnosis, and has served as an educational forensics expert in more than 70 court cases.

 

Campbell has devoted her career to education, having served as past president of The Learning Exchange, a nonprofit educational corporation serving more than 1,000 school districts and youth-serving agencies in collaboration with higher education, businesses and the civic community. Campbell also co-founded Experiencia, Inc., a national model using immersive learning programs to teach children in a real-world environment. Currently, she is president of CW Interventions, a partnership of experts in the fields of education, learning systems, psychology, management and economics.

 

The University is grateful to Drs. Wheelock and Campbell for their foresight and dedication to UMKC and the School of Education, and for this generous gift that guarantees the longevity of a scholarship to benefit many generations to come.