Rachel (Palencia) Harper ’94 is the associate director of the Honors College and coordinator of the Honors Humanities Sequence at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Employed by the university for 18 years, Rachel also added the title of associate teaching professor, in MU’s English department, in December 2021. She was recognized in the student publication The Maneater, in a story during Women’s History Month in April 2022, highlighting “Five women making a difference at MU.”