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This group of leaders in science, industry, and higher education offer a roadmap for modernizing the American science and technology (S&T) enterprise and for maintaining American leadership in the face of rapidly advancing competitors, such as China.
Over the last few days, the Trump administration has fired thousands of probationary federal employees, including at the nation’s premier science agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
The House Education and Workforce Committee voted 20-14 along party lines on February 12 to approve a bill that AAU warned would threaten the United States’ position as the world’s leader in cutting-edge scientific research by making international research collaborations more difficult.
Nearly half of colleges' and universities' endowment spending went toward funding student financial aid programs.
The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee emphasized the need for Congress to make strategic investments in the U.S. science and technology enterprise in its first full committee hearing of the 119th Congress.
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that federal agencies may be underestimating the economic payoffs that result from federal investments in research and development.
Federal agencies have begun expansive reviews of their grants and programs to ensure that they are in compliance with new executive orders issued by President Trump.
In addition to protecting the U.S. scientific research enterprise from intellectual property theft and espionage by nations such as China, the report argued, the country must also uphold scientific openness and increase federal investments in research and talent.
While the OMB memo has been rescinded, much uncertainty remains for the scientists and researchers who rely on federal funds to do the critical scientific work that keeps our nation healthy, prosperous, and secure.
Pell graduation rates at AAU institutions far surpass the national average, and two AAU members – Arizona State University and the University of California, Riverside – have exceptional Pell student enrollment.
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