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Case Western Reserve University comprises eight schools that offer more than 100 undergraduate programs and about 160 graduate and professional options across fields in STEM, medicine, arts, and the humanities.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-07-12 |title=Majors & Minors {{!}} Undergraduate Admission |url=https://case.edu/admission/academics |access-date=2023-12-13 |website=case.edu |language=en}}</ref> Notably, the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry, administered by the [[Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine]], were respectively ranked 7th and 14th nationally for research activities and expenditures.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-27 |title=Home {{!}} Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research |url=https://brimr.org/ |access-date=2023-12-13 |website=brimr.org |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2023, the university enrolled 12,266 students (6,186 undergraduate plus 6,080 graduate and professional) from all 50 states and 102 countries and employed more than 1,110 full-time faculty members. The university's athletic teams, Case Western Reserve Spartans, play in [[NCAA Division III]] as a founding member of the [[University Athletic Association]]
Case Western Reserve University is a member of the [[Association of American Universities]] and is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".<ref name="Carnegie_classification">{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications – Institution Profile |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=201645 |access-date=March 30, 2020 |publisher=Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924023810/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=201645 |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to the [[National Science Foundation]], in 2019 the university had [[research and development]] (R&D) expenditures of $439 million, ranking it 20th among private institutions and 58th in the nation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NSF Rankings by total R&D expenditures |url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd}}</ref>
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|title=Abolitionists as Academics: The Controversy at Western Reserve College, 1832–1833
|first=Lawrence B.
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▲The town of Hudson, about 30 miles southeast of Cleveland, was a quiet antislavery center from the beginning: its founder, [[David Hudson (pioneer)|David Hudson]], was against slavery, and founding trustee [[Owen Brown (abolitionist, born 1771)|Owen Brown]] was a noted [[abolitionist]] who secured the location for the college. The abolitionist [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]], who would lead the [[John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry|1859 raid on Harpers Ferry]], grew up in Hudson and was the son of co-founder Owen Brown. Hudson was a major stop on the [[Underground Railroad]].
Along with [[Presbyterian]] influences of its founding, the school's origins were strongly though briefly associated with the pre-[[American Civil War|Civil War]] [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]] movement;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://case.edu/artsci/isus/abolitisionism.htm|title=Case Western Reserve University|website=Case.edu|access-date=August 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901172245/http://case.edu/artsci/isus/abolitisionism.htm|archive-date=September 1, 2017}}</ref> the abolition of slavery was the dominant topic on campus in 1831. The trustees were unhappy with the situation. The college's chaplain and Bible professor, [[Beriah Green]], gave four sermons on the topic<ref>{{cite book
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