Letters

AAU joined ACE and other higher education organizations on a letter urging Congress to address the expiration of federal subsidy payments for BABs due to sequestration.

The Friends of Institute of Education Sciences, a coalition of more than 40 higher education organizations and universities including AAU, sent a letter to OMB Director Shalanda Young outlining two recommendations to support IES in FY24.

The Friends of Institute of Education Sciences, a coalition of more than 40 higher education organizations and universities including AAU, sent a letter asking congressional appropriators to include $844.1 million for IES as part of a final FY23 appropriations agreement

The Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research, which includes AAU, sent a letter urging Congress to finalize FY23 funding for NIH, including at least $47.5 billion for the NIH’s base budget and strong supplemental investments in ARPA-H.

AAU joined ACE and other associations in sending a letter to Sen. Dick Durbin and Sen. Roger Wicker thanking them for reintroducing the Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Program Act.

AAU joined ACE and 7 other associations in submitting comments to the Internal Revenue Service on a possible error in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 that could prevent some public universities from benefiting from green energy tax credits included in the law.

AAU joined ACE and 29 other organizations in sending a letter to leaders of the House and Senate education and labor committees urging them to pass the bipartisan Building Civic Bridges Act.

AAU joined 15 other associations in urging the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee to include the Tax-Free Pell Grant Act in end-of-the year tax legislation.

CNSF, of which AAU is a member and co-chair, letter to House and Senate appropriations committee leaders urging them to complete FY23 appropriations before end of the year and to fund NSF at the highest level possible.

CNSF, of which AAU is a member and co-chair, letter to OMB Director Shalanda Young and OSTP Director Arati Prabhakar asking for the administration to request the full amount authorized in CHIPS and Science for NSF in FY24.