The effects of federal funds upon the viability of selected biomedical and behavioral disciplines were studied based on multivariate analyses of a longitudinal data base, supplemented by case study field trips to nine carefully selected universities. In the quantitative analyses, models were constructed to predict several indices of academic department structure and function; e.g., Ph.D. production, graduate enrollment, and department size, which were postulated to be linked in a recursive model. The degree to which the federal funding effect varied as a function of the kind of institution was also examined. The key finding was that federal funding has a clear, strong, and positive relationship to department and structure, and that this holds true even when other factors in the model are taken into account. The detailed results are presented in numerous statistical tables. (Author/LBH)