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The Student Aid Alliance, a coalition of more than 40 higher education organizations, recently held a briefing on Capitol Hill to remind policymakers about how crucial federal student aid is to millions of American students and their families. AAU is on the Student Aid Alliance’s steering committee and helped organize and plan the event.
Earlier this month, AAU was proud to sponsor and participate in the National Humanities Alliance’s annual meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day, which brings together delegations from across the United States to Capitol Hill for two days to make the case for robust federal funding for the humanities.
Every $1 spent by the National Institutes of Health in research funding in FY24 generated $2.56 of economic activity, according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
Many AAU members were top recipients of patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The Columbia announcement represents an escalation in the administration’s effort to cut federal funding – including research funding – to universities as punishment for what the administration claims is their failure to respond adequately to antisemitism.
AAU members and other research universities are using their platforms to highlight the real-world impacts of their research.
Seven AAU member universities will receive resources and funding from OpenAI to support the discovery and development of new applications for AI.
A new “report card” from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute offers mixed grades on the “health, effectiveness, and resilience” of the United States’ national security innovation ecosystem and notes that slow growth in government funding for research and development is partially to blame.
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.
On February 26, a bipartisan group of 201 lawmakers, led by Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), reintroduced the American Dream and Promise Act of 2025 in the U.S. House of Representatives.