AAU joined ACE and over three dozen higher education organizations in a letter to party leadership thanking them for "the commitment to student aid and scientific research in the Fiscal Year 2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act."
AAU and APLU submitted a comment letter on the National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing, emphasizing investment in research and development and manufacturing innovation institutes, and the support of education and training programs.
AAU and ACE joined over forty other higher education institutions in a letter to the Senate HELP committee outlining principles for the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA).
AAU wrote to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) in response to the broad solicitation for comments on the Higher Education Act reauthorization.
Coalition for National Security Research (CNSR), of which AAU is a member, sent a letter to House and Senate appropriators urging Congress to robustly fund the Department of Defense science and technology program for FY18.
The Association of American Universities (AAU) and The Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) sent a letter to appropriators in both the House and Senate urging Congress to fund the National Science Foundation (NSF) at $8 billion for FY18.
AAU and ACE joined more than three dozen other higher education organizations in a letter to Speaker Ryan and Minority Leader Pelosi to express grave reservations about the version of H.R. 4508, PROSPER Act.
AAU, ACE and two dozen other higher education organizations urged leadership in the Senate to consider bipartisan legislation that would grant legal status to 1.8 million Dreamers. legal status of Dreamers.
AAU wrote to Sen. Lamar Alexander, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), in response to his white paper on higher education accountability.
AAU and six other higher education organizations urged Congress to maintain it's historical commitment to student financial aid and medical research in FY18.