State funding for scientific research at San Diego State University and at UCSD and other California universities has plunged 30 percent in the last eight years
SAN DIEGO — California is one of 10 states where support for public research has drastically dropped in less than a decade. President Obama and Congress recently received a 575-page report called Science and Engineering Indicators. The report, based on an in-depth national study found California taxpayers invested nearly $5,000 less per university student than they did eight years ago.
