The following letter is about seeking a permanent solution to allow universities to continue their longstanding practice of providing student health insurance, at little or no cost, to graduate students.
AAU, APLU and COGR comment to Carrie D. Wolinetz, National Institutes of Health, on Federal Register Document number 2016-18601.
AAU, APLU, COGR letter on proposed changes to NIH guidelines for human stem cell research and consideration of certain human-animal chimera research.
The following letters includes comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding state authorization for institutions of higher education that offer distance education and state authorization for foreign locations of domestic institutions that was published in the Federal Register on July 25, 2016 (Docket ID ED-2016-OPE-0050).
The following letter is about the challenges of completing the appropriations process in regular order before the new fiscal year begins on October 1, and the resulting need for a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the federal government operating through the upcoming election.
However, we strongly believe Congress can return after the election, as it has so often in the past, to complete the process.
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Letter commenting on the NPRM regarding borrower defenses to repayment published in the Federal Register on June 16, 2016.
The following letter includes comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding borrower defenses to repayment that was published in the Federal Register on June 16, 2016 (Docket ID ED-2015-OPE-0103). This comment letter addresses recommendations related to the NPRM’s provisions on borrower defenses to repayment. Comments on the NPRM’s changes to current financial responsibility standards will be addressed in a separate letter.
Higher education associations offer comments regarding borrower defenses to repayment that was published in the Federal Register on June 16, 2016.
On behalf of AAU and APLU, we write to comment on the DHS proposed adjustments to certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees charged by USCIS (DHS Docket No. USCIS-2016-0001).