Editing Frederick A. P. Barnard (section)

===Columbia College===
He served as the 10th President of [[Columbia College of Columbia University|Columbia College]] (now [[Columbia University]]) in New York City, holding office for an unprecedented term of 25 years from 1864 to 1889 - longer than that of any of his predecessors. During this period the college experienced rapid growth. New departments were established; the elective system was greatly extended, greater provisions were made for graduate study and original research, and enrolment increased from approximately 150 students to over 1000.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

Barnard himself served as a scholar of English and the [[classics]], and as an expert in the fields of mathematics, physics, and chemistry. He was known as a skilled public speaker, with his annual reports to the Board of Trustees including valuable discussions of educational problems.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

He also served as the co-editor-in-chief of ''[[Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia]]'' (1876), alongside [[Arnold Henry Guyot]].<ref>{{cite book|page=1411|year=1885|access-date=May 17, 2014|publisher=A. J. Johnson|author=Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard|title=Johnson's new general cyclopaedia and copperplate hand-atlas of the world: combined and illustrated: being specially adapted for daily use in the family, school, and office, Volume 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=64hRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1411}}</ref> Other texts authored by Barnard, include ''Treatise on Arithmetic'' (1830), ''Analytical Grammar with Symbolic Illustration'' (1836), ''Letters on Collegiate Government'' (1855), ''History of the United States Coast Survey'' (1857), ''Recent Progress in Science'' (1869), and ''The Metric System'' (1871).

He died on April 27, 1889, in New York City.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter}}</ref><ref>{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter|year=1905}}</ref> In his will, the bulk of his estate was left to [[Columbia College, Columbia University|Columbia College]].<ref>{{cite book |title=A History of the First Half-Century of the National Academy of Sciences: 1863–1913 |date=1913 |publisher=National Academic Press (US) |page=Chapter 13 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK221935/ |access-date=30 October 2019}}</ref>