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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University Awards
TBD
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Career
TBD
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University Numbers
2007/08 2019/20
Enrollment TBD TBD
Number of faculty TBD TBD
Operating expenses TBD TBD
Operating revenues TBD TBD
Full time undergraduate tuition TBD TBD
Technology transfer licensing fees TBD TBD
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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.
2010 Tinkham Veale II pledges $20 million toward what would become the Tinkham
Veale student center.
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.
2015 CWRU and the Cleveland Clinic break ground on the new health education campus,
which brings together different disciplines in the School of Medicine and other
health programs.
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, May 2022.
