{"id":1056,"date":"2019-04-26T20:52:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T20:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/ui-presidents-dev\/timeline-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T20:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T20:12:18","slug":"interim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/ui-presidents\/interim\/","title":{"rendered":"List of interim UI presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During times of leadership transition, interim presidents have ensured the continuity of the University of Iowa\u2019s service to the state and beyond. These distinguished individuals have emerged as leaders among their colleagues, whether administrators, deans, or members of the faculty. They are chosen to serve based upon their history of commitment to the university, and upon their breadth of understanding of the institution\u2019s diverse activity in the realms of research and instruction.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1223\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1223\" class=\"wp-image-1223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/06\/1-EastCampus018-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Old Capitol central walk looking east from Old Capitol, ca 1915-1920.\" width=\"300\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/06\/1-EastCampus018-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/06\/1-EastCampus018-768x1064.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/06\/1-EastCampus018-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/06\/1-EastCampus018.jpg 866w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Capitol central walk, ca 1915-1920. F.W. Kent Collection (RG 30.0001.001), University Archives.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Nathan Ransom Leonard<\/strong>, acting president, 1867-1868 and 1870-1871<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christian W. Slagle<\/strong>, acting president, 1877-1878<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amos Noyes Currier<\/strong>, acting president, 1898-1899<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chester Arthur Phillips<\/strong>, acting president, 1940<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duane C. Spriestersbach<\/strong>, acting president, 1981-1982<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard D. Remington<\/strong>, acting president, 1987-1988<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter E. Nathan<\/strong>, acting president, 1995<\/p>\n<p><strong>Willard L. Boyd<\/strong>, interim president, 2002-2003<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gary Fethke<\/strong>, interim president, 2006-2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jean E. Robillard<\/strong>, interim president, 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>John C. Keller<\/strong>, interim president, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During times of leadership transition, interim presidents have ensured the continuity of the University of Iowa\u2019s service to the state and beyond. These distinguished individuals have emerged as leaders among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":901,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-gallery-ui-presidents.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1056\/revisions\/3179"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}