Frederick A. P. Barnard

Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard (1809-1889) was an American academic and educator who served as the tenth president of Columbia University from 1864 until his death in 1889. Born in Sheffield, Massachusetts and a graduate of Yale University, he held a succession of academic posts before serving as Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1856 to 1861. As president of Columbia he presided over a period of institutional growth and championed expanding educational access for women, an advocacy that led to the founding of Barnard College, named in his honor after his death. He also authored academic texts and co-edited Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia.