AAU on Monday joined ACE and sixteen other higher education organizations on a letter to Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) in support of his amendment to the CARES Act that would create an above-the-line deduction for charitable giving for taxpayers not itemizing their deductions.
The Coalition for National Security Research, of which AAU is a member, sent a letter to House and Senate Armed Services Committee members to outline their funding priorities for the FY21 NDAA.
Letter from HHS Secretary Alex Azar to governors with requests for state-level actions in response to COVID-19.
AAU wrote to express their sincere appreciation of OMB’s expeditious release of M-20-17, “Administrative Relief for Recipients and Applicants of Federal Financial Assistance Directly Impacted by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) due to Loss of Operations.”
AAU joined the National Association of College and University Business Officers and five other organizations on a letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig requesting they include exempt organizations, such as colleges and universities, in a notice that outlines a 90-day tax filing exemption for corporations and individuals.
AAU and 41 organizations joined the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Coalition in a March 20 letter to congressional agriculture appropriators to request they provide at least $480 million for the AFRI program in FY21.
AAU joined the National Association of College and University Business Officers and _ other organizations on a letter to congressional appropriators to urge them to extend employer tax credits in H.R. 6201 to colleges and universities.
AAU, ACE, APLU, and AAMC sent a letter to Congressional leaders to lay out a strategy that will “allow our members to continue to lead in the battle against COVID-19 and ensure that our other research on behalf of the American people will not suffer during these unprecedented times."
AAU signed on to a letter with ACE, APLU, and three other higher education organizations to Senate Veteran’s Affairs Committee Chair Jerry Moran and Ranking Member Jon Tester to voice their support for legislation that would ensure that veterans can still receive their GI bill benefits if their campuses move courses online due to COVID-19 concerns.
AAU, together with the Council of Governmental Relations, the Association of Public Land-grant Universities, and the Association of American Medical Colleges, today sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget to recommend the expansion of M-20-11, a memo issued March 9 to provide administrative relief for recipients and applicants of federal financial assistance who are impacted by COVID-19.