Yes that is about how much funding the University receives from the state. And yes the motto in academia is "publish or perish". All of the professors, including the adjuncts and associates, continuously have to be active in research and publishing if they ever hope to get tenure, or to get hired at a prestigious university that pays well. The problem, and I am speaking from the point of view of humanities in general, is that they don't specify the type of research that is favored from the top down. They are purposefully vague about it. In reality, they are letting go of people who, in languages especially, are specifically trained to teach languages. They expect TTF (tenure track facutly) to do these people's jobs thinking that they, as the content creators of the future (according to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences) should be the ones teaching the future generations of researchers. That may be fine and well in the sciences, but in languages it is not going to beneficial.