David H. Auston
David H. Auston
President, Case Western Reserve University, 7/1/1999-4/27/2001
Education
B.A.Sc., University of Toronto, 1962, Engineering Physics
M.A.Sc., University of Toronto, 1963, Electrical Engineering
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1969, Electrical Engineering
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Career
Research Physicist, GM Defense Research Laboratory, Santa Barbara, California, 1963-1966
Member, Technical Staff, Physics Research, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1969-1987
Department Head, Physics Research Division, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1982-1987
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Columbia University, 1987-1994
Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Columbia University, 1989
Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, 1990-1994
Provost, Rice University, 1994-1999
Herman Brown Professor of Engineering, Rice University, 1994-1999
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, 1999-2001
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University Numbers
1999/2000 2000/01
Enrollment 9,601 9,614
Market value of endowment $1,550 billion $1,434 billion
Full time undergraduate tuition $19,200 $20,100
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Milestones (non-university-related events are in italics)
2000 The College of Arts and Sciences completed its fundraising campaign, begun in 1994,
with a total attainment of over $90 million.
Worldwide efforts were made to upgrade computer systems to prevent problems
anticipated from incorrect processing of the 2000 date - "Y2K."
Republican George W. Bush won the disputed 2000 U.S. presidential election over
Democrat Al Gore.
The final original Peanuts comic strip appeared.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate, the first First Lady to win
public office.
2001 The University purchased the Mt. Sinai Medical Center property.
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Regional Population
2000
Cleveland 478,403
Cuyahoga County 1,393,978
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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, March 2007.