AAU joined ACE and more than 30 other higher education associations in submitting comments to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. It outlines several ways the agency can remove administrative barriers to immigration and international education in the United States by revising rules or issuing new administrative policies.
AAU joined the Coalition for International Education on a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urging them to support enhancements to Title VI of the Higher Education Act, as proposed in the bipartisan Advancing International and Foreign Language Education Act.
Letter from House members to HELP leadership advocating for an increase to NIH funding in FY22.
AAU joined APLU, NAFSA, and NAICU in sending a letter to House and Senate appropriators urging them to support the U.S. Department of State's Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs, specifically EducationUSA, a network of over 430 international student advising centers in more than 175 countries and territories. The letter recommends EducationUSA receive $50 million in FY2022, an increase of $37 million above FY 2021
Letters | Federal Budget | FY22 | Immigration
AAU urges appropriators to provide the highest possible FY22 allocation for the Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittees in order to "robustly fund the basic and applied research programs in the CJS portfolio."
CNSF sent a letter to congressional science appropriators to request at least $10 billion for the National Science Foundation in FY22.
AAU joined APLU, ACE, and AAMC to send a letter to Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Chairman Menendez (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Risch (R-ID) expressing our opposition to Section 138 of the Strategic Competition Act (S. 1169).
AAU joined ACE and 40 other higher education associations in sending a letter to Chairwoman Murray and Ranking Member Burr in supporting James Kvaal to be Under Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education.
The Energy Sciences Coalition, of which AAU is a member, sent a letter to Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee leaders to request that they provide at least $7.7 billion for the Energy Department’s Office of Science in FY22.
Sens. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) are circulating a “dear colleague” letter asking senators to join a letter to President Joe Biden requesting he work with Congress on a plan to double the maximum Pell Grant award.