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Barbara R. Snyder

President Barbara R. Snyder

Barbara R. Snyder is president of the Association of American Universities. Prior to that, she served as president of Case Western Reserve University from 2007 to 2020, where she encouraged interdisciplinary excellence, catalyzed institutional collaboration, and reinvigorated alumni engagement and fundraising.

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Our Board of Directors

AAU’s 13-member Board of Directors consists of member presidents and chancellors and includes: a Chair, Vice Chair, Past Chair, nine additional Directors, and the AAU President (ex-officio). Directors are elected by the member presidents and chancellors.

AAU’s Board of Directors is the governing body of the association and among other responsibilities, it proposes policy positions for consideration by the membership, adopts policy positions on behalf of the membership as warranted, approves the association’s annual budget, determines AAU membership, and works with the AAU President and staff to carry out the association’s agenda.

Christopher Eisgruber
President, Princeton University
AAU Chair

Douglas Girod
Chancellor, University of Kansas
AAU Vice Chair

Robert Jones
Chancellor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
AAU Past Chair

Ángel Cabrera
President, Georgia Institute of Technology

Ronald Daniels
President, Johns Hopkins University

Gregory Fenves
President, Emory University

Joan T. A. Gabel
Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh

Farnam Jahanian
President, Carnegie Mellon University

Cynthia Larive
Chancellor, University of California, Santa Cruz

Gary May
Chancellor, University of California, Davis

Maurie McInnis
President, Yale University

Vincent Price
President, Duke University