Mark Pocan (D-WI) urges OMB to provide mandatory administrative relief to research grant recipients during coronavirus outbreak.
AAU joined over 100 associations in sending a letter urging the administration to lift the restrictions on federally funded research using human fetal tissue immediately due to the unprecedented public health threat posed by COVID-19.
AAU, ACE, and 31 other education organizations sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos urging the department to wait until campuses have resumed normal operations to pursue further action on its proposed rulemaking on Title IX and its HEA Section 117 foreign gifts and contracts information collection request.
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.