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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.
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.
Several AAU institutions were among the top producers of Fulbright recipients for 2024-2025.
Recent executive actions signal a forceful effort by the administration to cut government spending, scale back the federal workforce, and reduce the federal real estate footprint nationally, but particularly in Washington.
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.