Statements

The following statement is on behalf of the Association of American Universities believing that the time has come for the United States to confront our culture of violence, particularly violence perpetrated by guns.

Statement by Hunter Rawlings, President of the Association of American Universities, on the report issued by the Office of Management and Budget on the impact of the budget sequester scheduled to take place on January 3, 2013.

AAU applauds the enactment of state laws that allow undocumented students who meet state requirements to pay in-state tuition and state laws that support the ability of autonomous public institutions to achieve comparable goals through their own tuition residency guidelines.

Letter to Darrell E. Issa and James Lankford regarding the Grant Reform and New Transparency (GRANT) Act of 2011.

Joint statement by AAU, APLU, and COGR on the Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act of 2011. 

Joint Statement of BIO, AAU, ACE, APLU, AUTM and COGR on the Supreme Court Decision in Stanford v. Roche, 2011.

Letter to the President and Congress to emphasize bipartisan compromise rather than contention. We call upon them to join together with Congress in making the tough choices on all elements of the federal budget in order to reduce deficits, bring the national debt under control and empower economic growth and job production.

Statement by the Task Force on American Innovation on the report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, chaired by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson.

Maintaining America’s Competitive Edge: Revitalizing the Nation’s Research Universities

Joint statement by the Association of American Medical Colleges, Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and Council on Governmental Relations. It responds to the injunction on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research imposed by a federal district court the week of August 27, 2010.