Letters

AAU joined other higher education associations in a letter to the VA to express concerns with the timing of the VA’s new enrollment management system for certifying GI bill benefits.

AAU joined the Innovation Alliance and five other organizations in sending a letter to the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee expressing opposition to the Pride in Patent Ownership Act (S. 2774).

UMR Urges House and Senate Leadership to Increase NIH Funding by $2.5 billion in FY 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill.

Former Directors of the NSF and Chairs of the NSB wrote to the President, Vice President and the Congress to make the case for funding the NSF at levels authorized in the CHIPS and Science Act.

AAU joined other higher education organizations in a letter to Congress in support of H.R. 7939, the Student Veteran Emergency Relief Act.

AAU and other higher education associations in calling on Congress to take permanent legislative action to protect the recipients of DACA during the last weeks of the 117th Congress.

Senators sent letter to OMB Director Shalanda Young urging the White House to include in the FY24 budget request the full amount authorized in CHIPS for the DOE Office of Science.

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