Barbara's Blog contains blog posts and speeches from AAU President Barbara R. Snyder on prominent and emerging issues facing research universities and the broader higher education community.
On the campuses of America’s leading research universities, students and professors have returned to class and researchers are hard at work on medical and technological breakthroughs; unseen is all the groundwork that university leaders have been doing over the past months to make the new school year safe for students and conducive for learning.
Congress is considering several measures that threaten to withhold research funding as an ideological weapon against universities – but it’s their discoveries that advance Americans’ health, security, and prosperity that would be the collateral damage.
Congress already badly underfunded the cutting-edge research of the National Science Foundation in FY24. Are they coming for the life-saving research funded by the National Institutes of Health next?
By making substantial cuts to a key research-funding agency, Congress has us falling farther and farther behind our competitor nations – and if America wants to stay the world’s first in science and innovation, we must catch up.
While debates and protests have roiled campuses since the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, AAU member universities are doing what they do best to fight antisemitism and other forms of prejudice: Educating.
AAU is proud to lead a task force to look at ways to expand critical research partnerships with India’s leading universities.
Congress should avoid misguided attempts to tax nonprofit funds that support scholarships and research known as college endowments.
The student debt crisis is real – but America’s leading research universities are part of the solution
The “CHIPS and Science Act” will help us maintain our competitive edge in the global science race – but its important initiatives must be funded.
The “Building Civic Bridges Act” Is One Helpful Way to Encourage Connection in Our Increasingly Divided Country