Letters

The following letter is about a bipartisan group of 54 Senators asking their leaders to take up the House-passed extension of the Perkins Loan Program.

In the US, ketamine is currently a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act, and strict regulations and safeguards are already in place to prevent its illegal use.

The following letter is about the Student Achievement Measure (SAM), a voluntary web-based tool that allows institutions to show the progress and graduation of significantly more students than the federal graduation rate.

Research letter supports funding increase and questions proposed salary limit.

On behalf of the Association of American Universities (AAU), I would like to thank you for the opportunity to provide comments to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on the reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act.

On behalf of our associations’ more than 200 member research universities, we urge you to uphold the President’s commitments to federal investments in higher education and research as you develop the Administration’s FY 2017 budget.

Re: "Petition to Develop Specific Ethologically Appropriate Standards for Nonhuman Primates in Research"

AAU and APLU write to congratulate Senators John Cornyn and Ron Wyden on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee’s unanimous approval yesterday of S. 779, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2015 (FASTR). 

AAU and COGR comment on the National and Archives Records Administration (NARA) proposed rule on Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), RIN 3095-AB80, 2015.

The following letter is about the comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published in the Federal Register on May 18, 2015, Docket ID: ED-2015-OPE-0020. Students and taxpayers place a great deal of responsibility in the hands of institutions to administer federal financial aid funds.