Walter Feldman painting of Robert Morse
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Robert W. Morse
(5/25/1921-1/19/2001)
President, Case Institute of Technology, 9/1/1966-6/30/1967
President, Case Western Reserve University, 7/1/1967-7/1/1971
Education
B.S., Bowdoin College, Mathematics
Sc.M., Brown University, 1947, Physics
Ph.D., Brown University, 1949, Physics
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CareerOfficer, U.S. Navy, 1943-1946
Faculty member, Department of Physics, Brown University, 1949-1966
Chairman, Department of Physics, Brown University, 1960-1962
Dean of the College, Brown University, 1962-1964
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development, U.S. Navy, 1964-1966
Professor of Physics, Case Institute of Technology and Case Western Reserve University, 1966-1971
Director of Research, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, 1971-1973
Associate Director, Senior Scientist, and Dean of Graduate Studies, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, 1973-1983
Director, Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, 1983
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University Numbers
1966/67 (CIT) 1970/71 (CWRU)
Enrollment 2,701 9,209
Number of faculty 233 1,157
Operating budget $17,449,000 $70,681,000
Operating expense $17,093,468 $69,035,000
Full time undergraduate tuition $2,000 $2,200
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Milestones (non-university-related events are in italics)
1966 National Organization for Women was formed.
1967 Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University federated.
1968 Urban and Environmental Studies Program, the first new post-Federation undergraduate
program, was established.
A successful two-year $5 million campaign for a new Law School building was started.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated.
1969 The first University Undergraduate Student Government was elected.
The Case Western Reserve University faculty constitution was approved.
The military draft lottery was held for the first time since World War II.
Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.
1970 The $17 Million Capital Campaign was successfully concluded, at that time CIT's largest
fundraising effort.
The first Earth Day, featuring nationwide demonstrations about environmental problems,
was celebrated.
Four students were killed and nine wounded by members of the Ohio National Guard on
the campus of Kent State University.
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Regional Population
1970
Cleveland 750,879
Cuyahoga County 1,720,835
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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.
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