The Student Aid Alliance, of which AAU is a member, sent a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies seeking increased funding for federal student aid programs in FY23.
123 Members of Congress signed onto a “Dear Colleague” letter urging House appropriators to include “robust and sustained” funding for the Department of Energy Office of Science in the FY23 Energy and Water Appropriations bill.
Representatives André Carson (D-In), David McKinley (R-WV), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) are circulating the below "Dear Colleague" letter encouraging House appropriators to provide for the NIH base budget “at least $49 billion and that any funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health should supplement, not supplant, this necessary growth in the NIH base budget” in FY23.
Representatives David Price (D-NC) and Young Kim (R-CA) are leading a “Dear Colleague” letters requesting at least $161.4 million in funding International Education and Foreign Language Studies in FY23
Representative David Price and Senator Jack Reed are leading a “Dear Colleague” letters requesting at least $204 million in funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in FY23. Please see the below instructions provided by the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) regarding the House and Senate Dear Colleague Letters supporting the NEH.
The Coalition for National Science Funding, which includes AAU, sent a letter to congressional science appropriators requesting at least $11 billion in funding for the National Science Foundation in FY23.
AAU joined 89 other associations and organizations in urging Congress “to support and prioritize the mental and behavioral health needs” of students in higher education. The associations’ letter notes that the mental health crisis among college students has long been under addressed and has worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Friends of Institute of Education Sciences, a coalition of 38 higher education organizations and universities including AAU, sent a letter encouraging House and Senate appropriators to provide at least $815 million for IES in the FY23 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.
AAU President Barbara R. Snyder wrote House and Senate appropriators to thank them for the recently signed H.R. 2471, the Consolidated Appropriations Act making final appropriations in FY22.
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Coalition, which includes AAU, sent a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittees requesting the full authorization amount of $700 million for AFRI in FY23; Congress provided $445 million for AFRI in FY22.