President Emeritus, Dean Emeritus of the School of Law, and Professor Emeritus of Law, Case Western Reserve University, 1980-2000
University Numbers
1970/71
1979/80
Enrollment
9,209
8,104
Operating expense
$69,035,000
$112,948,000
Full time undergraduate tuition
$2,200
$4,250
Milestones
The three undergraduate colleges of Western Reserve University, Adelbert College, Flora Stone Mather College, and Cleveland College, were merged into Western Reserve College.
1971
The 26th Amendment to the United State Constitution was ratified, lowering the voting age to 18.
1972
First ARPANET email messages were transmitted.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 became law.
Five operatives for the Committee to Re-elect the President were arrested for burglarizing the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex, eventually leading to the resignation of President Nixon.
1973
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade overturned state bans on abortion.
1974
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act became law.
1975
The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon was captured by the North Vietnamese, ending the Vietnam War.
CWRU’s first university-wide fundraising campaign, Resources, was launched. It raised $215 million in five years.
1976
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created the Apple Computer Company.
1979
Three Mile Island nuclear power plant suffered a partial core meltdown.
The University experienced the eighth consecutive year of operating budget surpluses.
1980
The School of Management was named the Weatherhead School of Management.
Regional Population
1970
1980
Cleveland
750,879
573,822
Cuyahoga County
1,720,835
1,498,400
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.
