The Task Force on American Innovation, an alliance of industry, professional societies, and university organizations including AAU, sent a letter urging congressional leaders to include supplemental appropriations for science and technology programs in the final conference agreement on the House-passed America COMPETES Act and the Senate-passed U.S. Innovation and Competition Act.
Letters | FY23 | FY22 | National Science Foundation | Department of Energy | Innovation and Competitiveness
36 members of Congress signed a “Dear Colleague” letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense advocating “robust funding levels” for Department of Defense basic research programs.
Representative Cicilline (D-OR) is leading a letter requesting that the House Appropriations Committee provide a robust funding for the Federal Pell Grant Program in Fiscal Year 2023 so that the maximum individual award can be increased to $12,990, which is nearly double the current maximum award. The letter also asks appropriators to secure the long-term affordability impact of the Pell Grant program for years to come by indexing the maximum award amount to inflation and ensuring that funding for the program is fully mandatory, rather than discretionary.
Agency Budgets | Letters | Student Aid | FY23 | Department of Education | Federal Budget | Affordability and Student Aid
House Members are leading a letter requesting increased funding for Campus-Based Student Financial Aid Programs in Title IV of the Higher Education Act in FY23. The letter requests The Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG) program be funded at $1.061 billion, and that the Federal Work Study (FWS) program be funded at $1.48 billion.
Representative Bonomici (D-OR) is leading a “Dear Colleague” letters requesting $815 Million for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in FY23. IES is a semi-independent and nonpartisan agency of the U.S. Department of Education that evaluates education policies and advances education research. Its programs produce evidence-based practices that strengthen teaching and learning, and information that is used to measure the effectiveness of educational reform
The Student Aid Alliance, of which AAU is a member, sent a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies seeking increased funding for federal student aid programs in FY23.
Representatives David Price (D-NC) and Young Kim (R-CA) are leading a “Dear Colleague” letters requesting at least $161.4 million in funding International Education and Foreign Language Studies in FY23
Representative David Price and Senator Jack Reed are leading a “Dear Colleague” letters requesting at least $204 million in funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in FY23. Please see the below instructions provided by the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) regarding the House and Senate Dear Colleague Letters supporting the NEH.
The Coalition for National Science Funding, which includes AAU, sent a letter to congressional science appropriators requesting at least $11 billion in funding for the National Science Foundation in FY23.
The Friends of Institute of Education Sciences, a coalition of 38 higher education organizations and universities including AAU, sent a letter encouraging House and Senate appropriators to provide at least $815 million for IES in the FY23 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.