Senator Markey (D-MA) is leading a “Dear Colleague” letter urging support from Chairwoman Shaheen and Ranking Member Moran requesting at least $11 billion in funding for the National Science Foundation in FY23.
AAU, ACE, and other higher education organizations sent a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate education committees endorsing the College Transparency Act (S. 839/H.R. 2030) and urging the inclusion of CTA language currently in the America COMPETES Act in the final and reconciled version of the United States Innovation and Competition Act and the America COMPETES Act.
Letters | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | Higher Education Regulation | Higher Education Legislation | Innovation and Competitiveness | Department of Education
AAU President Barbara R. Snyder sent a letter to members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in support of Nasser Paydar’s nomination as assistant secretary for postsecondary education at the Department of Education.
“Dear Colleague” letter requesting at least $11 billion in funding for the National Science Foundation in FY23.
Invent Together, a coalition of businesses, universities, and organizations including AAU, sent a letter urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to keep the bipartisan Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement (IDEA) Act in the final innovation and competitiveness legislation currently pending in Congress.
The Task Force on American Innovation, an alliance of industry, professional societies, and university organizations including AAU, sent a letter urging congressional leaders to include supplemental appropriations for science and technology programs in the final conference agreement on the House-passed America COMPETES Act and the Senate-passed U.S. Innovation and Competition Act.
Letters | FY23 | FY22 | National Science Foundation | Innovation and Competitiveness | Department of Energy
36 members of Congress signed a “Dear Colleague” letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense advocating “robust funding levels” for Department of Defense basic research programs.
Representative Cicilline (D-OR) is leading a letter requesting that the House Appropriations Committee provide a robust funding for the Federal Pell Grant Program in Fiscal Year 2023 so that the maximum individual award can be increased to $12,990, which is nearly double the current maximum award. The letter also asks appropriators to secure the long-term affordability impact of the Pell Grant program for years to come by indexing the maximum award amount to inflation and ensuring that funding for the program is fully mandatory, rather than discretionary.
Agency Budgets | Letters | Student Aid | FY23 | Federal Budget | Affordability and Student Aid | Department of Education
House Members are leading a letter requesting increased funding for Campus-Based Student Financial Aid Programs in Title IV of the Higher Education Act in FY23. The letter requests The Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG) program be funded at $1.061 billion, and that the Federal Work Study (FWS) program be funded at $1.48 billion.
Representative Bonomici (D-OR) is leading a “Dear Colleague” letters requesting $815 Million for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in FY23. IES is a semi-independent and nonpartisan agency of the U.S. Department of Education that evaluates education policies and advances education research. Its programs produce evidence-based practices that strengthen teaching and learning, and information that is used to measure the effectiveness of educational reform