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... During the period, the federal share of public doctoral universities' research funds decreased from 75 percent to 60 percent; for private doctoral universities' the federal share decreased from 82 percent to 77 percent (Figures I-12 and l-13~. While the number 1~
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... In the public doctoral universities, total enrollments reached 2.5 million; private doctoral universities enrollments slowly increased to 700,000 (Figure 1-17~. With an approaching steady-state in faculty positions and uncertain federal financial support for research, the production of Ph.D.
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