After this long process, AAU and APLU are disappointed with the ANPG. We believe that the process used to craft the ANPG and the proposals it contains was flawed and failed to represent a good-faith effort to improve the partnership between universities and the Federal government, causing us to question whether the Federal government feels that such a partnership exists at all. Therefore, before providing substantive answers to the four overarching questions in the ANPG, we would like to highlight two overall concerns with the process.