California State University, Long Beach, in the throes of
"revitalization" of the undergraduate curriculum, of reduction of
the faculty to about 775 full-time tenure track (from about 950
several years ago),  (FTES 1989 35k, 1997 27k), seems to have
something of a "pause."

Year                    Proposals            Awards
1996-97             197                      $28,129,703
1995-96             210                        28,074.535
1994-95             218                        22,888,449
1993-94             193                        20,257,038
1992-93             190                        17,111,500
--
James R. Brett, Ph.D., Director
Office of University Research
California State University, Long Beach
562-985-5314 or fax 562-985-8665
http://www.csulb.edu/~research

"All always is it better too soon than never" - Samuel Beckett