Administration positions continue to shift at the University of Central Missouri.

Mike Godard was recently named interim assignment as provost – chief learning officer, leaving a vacancy at vice provost for enrollment management. Karen Goos was recently appointed to serve as interim vice provost for enrollment management for an 18-month period beginning Jan. 1, 2018, according to a news release.

Goos has served as assistant vice provost for enrollment management since April 1, 2016, and has some 16 years of professional experience in higher education.

Godard has led enrollment management since 2015. He was appointed to his interim position after Deborah Curtis, provost-chief learning officer, was named president of her alma mater, Indiana State University.

“I have the utmost confidence in Dr. Goos to serve as interim vice provost for enrollment management,” Godard said in a written statement. “Her prior experiences and the leadership roles that she has served both at UCM and prior to coming to UCM have positioned her well to take on the responsibilities of this position.”

Goos, of Blue Springs, joined UCM in April 2016, having previously served as dean of student development and enrollment at Metropolitan Community College – Longview since 2012. In this capacity, she provided leadership and management in areas such as financial aid, academic advising, records, business, testing, admissions, counseling, athletics, campus life, career services, disability support services, as well as the Student Success Center, which she created.

Her work at MCC also included a special assignment July 2014-August 2015 as associate vice chancellor of student development and enrollment management.

She served in many other capacities at MCC campuses, including service at MCC-Blue River as associate dean of student development and enrollment management, August 2010-October 2012; registrar, May 2009-August 2010; enrollment services manager at MCC-Kansas City, April 2008-May 2009; and college relations coordinator at MCC-Maple Woods, February 2005-April 2008.

Before working in the Kansas City metropolitan area, Goos served as a track and field/cross country coach at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma from August 2002-August 2004, and worked at the University of Nebraska, Kearney, as an assistant track and field coach from July 2001-August 2002, and as an adjunct instructor in that university’s health, physical education, recreation and leisure studies department, August 2001-August 2002.

In addition to her UCM master’s degree in exercise science, Goos earned a Bachelor of Arts in elementary and middle school education at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska, and a Doctorate in Education, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Missouri-Columbia.