<p>^^Crewdad - You have a point, in that clearly one of the reasons Wesleyan is in no hurry to change that graphic is that it includes two of its banner years, in terms of federal funding: >$8,000,000 in fy05 and fy06. It beat Harvey Mudd on a per capita basis (I gave HMC a generous 4:1 handicap) in <code>05 and nearly matched it in</code>06.</p>
<p>OTOH, in Wesleyan’s defense I have to say that navigating the NSF site is a little daunting, even for a geek like me. It’s not clear that they <em>do</em> compile these statistics on a yearly basis, or at least, publish them on that basis:<a href=“http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf11313/pdf/tab27.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf11313/pdf/tab27.pdf</a></p>