While federal regulations and reporting requirements are mostly well intentioned, research universities are among the most regulated entities in the country and often must comply with regulations that are not sensible or scaled to risk. The AAU works with the federal government to harmonize, streamline, and when possible eliminate unnecessary regulations and reporting requirements to maximize federal investments in research while still ensuring public accountability. AAU also helps its member universities to review their existing institutional policies and procedures to ensure that they are not adding unnecessary and costly requirements on themselves.
It is imperative that we work to ensure efficiency in government regulation to reduce the costs of compliance and to maximize the productivity of researchers.
Letters | Reducing Regulatory Burden | Costs of Research (F&A Costs) | Research Administration & Regulation
Joint statement by AAU, APLU, and COGR on the Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act of 2011.
Reducing Regulatory Burden | Costs of Research (F&A Costs) | Statements | Research Administration & Regulation
We advocate for an examination and evaluation of the current relationship between research institutions and the federal government to strengthen and/or repair them to ensure increased productivity.
At the request of NRC, COGR, AAU, and APLU have assembled ten recommendations for regulatory reform improving research universities’ ability to carry out their missions with minimum financial investment by the Fed.
Reducing Regulatory Burden | Recommendation | Research Administration & Regulation | Innovation and Competitiveness