{"id":1088,"date":"2019-05-03T17:26:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/?post_type=ui_president&#038;p=1088"},"modified":"2021-05-11T20:20:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T20:20:35","slug":"josiah-little-pickard","status":"publish","type":"ui_president","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/ui-president\/josiah-little-pickard\/","title":{"rendered":"Josiah Little Pickard (1878-1887)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1076\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/05\/Pickard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1076\" class=\"wp-image-1076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/05\/Pickard-806x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Josiah Little Pickard\" width=\"300\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/05\/Pickard-806x1024.jpg 806w, https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/05\/Pickard-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/05\/Pickard-768x976.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/05\/Pickard.jpg 944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil on canvas by an unknown artist, n.d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A leading educator and administrator, Josiah Pickard assumed the University presidency after heading the public school system in Chicago. He also was a devoted student of history, serving as president of the State Historical Society of Iowa for nearly 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Pickard graduated from Bowdoin College in 1844 and served as principal of Platteville (Wisconsin) Academy until 1860. That year, he was selected Wisconsin\u2019s state superintendent of public instruction, a position he held until 1864, at which time he began a 13-year stint as Chicago\u2019s superintendent of schools.<\/p>\n<p>During Pickard\u2019s presidency at Iowa, two departments\u2014later to become colleges\u2014were added: dental and pharmaceutical. Course offerings in the remaining four departments were expanded, and he advocated raising teaching standards and academic requirements.<\/p>\n<p>From 1881 until 1900 he was president of the State Historical Society of Iowa, and retired from active teaching in 1889.<\/p>\n<p>Pickard was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, on March 17, 1824. He died on March 29, 1914, at age 90.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery\"><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/ui-president\/willard-lee-sandy-boyd\/campus1880\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/05\/Campus1880-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Drawing of the area of the Pentacrest around 1880.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/05\/Campus1880-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/05\/Campus1880-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/files\/2019\/05\/Campus1880-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1162'>\n\t\t\t\tState University of Iowa campus, ca. 1880, \nF.W. Kent Collection, University of Iowa Archives.\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading educator and administrator, Josiah Pickard assumed the University presidency after heading the public school system in Chicago. He also was a devoted student of history, serving as president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1076,"template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ui_presidents_syndication":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ui_president\/1088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ui_president"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ui_president"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ui_presidents_syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ui_presidents_syndication?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}