Case Western Reserve University Archives

Barbara R. Snyder


Barbara R. Snyder 


President, Case Western Reserve University, 7/1/2007-10/1/2020

Education

B.A., Ohio State University, 1976

J.D., University of Chicago, 1980
 

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Career

Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 1983-1986

Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 1986-1988

Associate Professor, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, 1988-1990

Professor, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, 1990-2000

Professor and Director, Center for Socio-Legal Studies (now Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies), The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, 1995-1998

Joanne W. Murphy / Classes of 1965 and 1973 Professor, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, 2000-2007

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, 2000-2001

Vice Provost for Academic Policy and Human Resources, The Ohio State University Office of Academic Affairs, 2001-2003

Interim Executive Vice President and Provost, The Ohio State University Office of Academic Affairs, 2003-2004

Executive Vice President and Provost, The Ohio State University Office of Academic Affairs, 2004-2007

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University Numbers

                                                             2007/08               2019/20 
Enrollment                                               9,844                       11,465
Number of faculty                                   2,740                         3,511 
Operating expenses                        $880.4 million        $1.195 billion 
Operating revenues                         $881.8 million        $1.197 billion
Full time undergraduate tuition        $33,500                   $52,448
Technology transfer licensing fees  $16.3 million        $4.31 million 

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Milestones (non-university-related events are in italics)

2007   CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, introduces the iPhone, which forever changes the
              way people communicate. 


             Barbara R. Snyder becomes the first female president of Case Western Reserve
              University as it faces a $19-million deficit. 

2008   CWRU announces $103 million in donations for 2007, the most since 2001 and 
               only the second time in the university's history that donations surpassed $100
               million. 
         
              CWRU eliminates $19 million deficit. 

2009   Barack Obama is inaugurated as the first black president of the United States. 

              
Marilyn Mobley begins work as CWRU's first Vice President for Inclusion, 
              Diversity, and Equal Opportunity. 

2010   Tinkham Veale II pledges $20 million toward what would become the Tinkham 
              Veale student center.  

              CWRU celebrates the centennial of the Hudson Relay. 

2011   Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by an elite United States military special
             operations unit, ending one of the longest manhunts in American history. 

             
CWRU launches the "Thinking Forward" capital campaign, with a 5-year $1 billion
             goal. 

2012   A 20-year-old gunman murders 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 
             Newtown, CT.  Of those killed, 20 people were children between 6 and 7 years
             old. 


2013   During the annual Boston Marathon, two homemade pressure-cooker bombs went
             off near the finish line.  A total of 3 people were killed, with 264 injured. 


2014   CWRU breaks ground on the Maltz Performing Arts center renovation.  The university
              raised $59.3 million in cash and pledges for the project. 

              A new history of CWRU is published:  Beyond the Fence.  A Social History of
              Case Western Reserve University 
was written by Richard E. Baznik, university
              historian and vice president emeritus. 

2015   CWRU and the Cleveland Clinic break ground on the new health education campus,
              which brings together different disciplines in the School of Medicine, the Frances
              Payne Bolton School of Nursing, and the School of Dental Medicine. 

2018   CWRU dedicates $1 million to student success initiative, half of which was sourced
              from a leadership award President Snyder received. 

2019   CWRU announces that the "Forward Thinking" campaign raised over $1.82 billion. 

             CWRU and the Cleveland Clinic open the Health Education campus. 

2020  COVID-19 spreads around the world, resulting in a worldwide pandemic.

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Regional Population

                                     2010                 2020                              

Cleveland                   396,815             372,624
Cuyahoga County   1,280,122          1,264,817

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Caution should be taken when comparing financial data across long periods of time. Accounting practices have changed substantially during CWRU's nearly 200-year history. In compiling these numbers, we have relied on the most authoritative contemporaneous sources available.

Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, October 2022. 

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