AAU joined ACE and 39 other higher education organizations to send a letter to Secretary Betsy DeVos to urge the Education Department to provide emergency relief included in the CARES Act to colleges and universities quickly and with maximum flexibility.
AAU on Monday joined 38 other organizations on a pair of letters to House and Senate Labor, HHS and Education appropriations subcommittee leaders to request that they fund a comprehensive, science-based and nonpartisan review of the COVID-19 response once the immediate public health emergency has passed.
AAU, along with 49 other organizations, sent a letter to Congressional appropriations leaders urging them to provide the highest possible FY21 funding for the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittees to support USDA’s newly-announced goal of stimulating “innovation to substantially increase production while simultaneously cutting the environmental footprint of U.S. agriculture.”
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.”