AAU joined ACE and more than 20 other higher education organizations in a letter to House Education and Labor Committee leaders expressing appreciation for the committee’s draft reconciliation bill including substantial investments in students, educators, and institutions. These investments include a proposed $500 increase to the Pell Grant maximum award.
However, the letter also emphasizes the proposed Pell increase falls short of what is needed to help more lower-income Americans go to college, and it commits the signing organizations to working to increase the amount as the bill moves forward in the legislative process.