Letters

The House and Senate’s bipartisan efforts on such legislation in the 114th Congress have been truly extraordinary and should not go unfulfilled.

The February 2013 OSTP memorandum directed Federal agencies to support increased public access to the results of Federally-funded research, specifically to scholarly publications and digital data resulting from such research.

This letter is about OMB's FY2018 budget materials and guidance for the next administration which highlights the importance of providing robust investment in higher education and scientific research.

The Association of American Universities and Association of Public and Land-grant Universities submitted a letter in support of the White House Active Learning Day.

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.