Press Releases

AAU opposes the Respecting the First Amendment on Campus Act (H.R. 7683) that will be considered by the House Education and the Workforce committee on Thursday, March 21.

AAU President Barbara R. Snyder expresses concern about the proposed FY24 NSF funding levels.

AAU President Barbara R. Snyder applauds the Senate for voting today to confirm Monica Bertagnolli as the director of the National Institutes of Health.

The member presidents and chancellors of the Association of American Universities today elected University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Robert J. Jones as chair of the AAU Board of Directors. Jones succeeds University of Southern California President Carol L. Folt, who had served as AAU’s board chair since October 2022.

The following is a statement from the Association of American Universities about an agreement between AAU and the Council of Indian Institutes of Technology to establish the Indo-U.S. Global Challenges Institute.

The following is an announcement from the Association of American Universities regarding an interim report released by the AAU Task Force on Expanding U.S.-India University Partnerships.

The following is a statement from the Association of American Universities welcoming Arizona State University; the George Washington University; the University of California, Riverside; the University of Miami; the University of Notre Dame; and the University of South Florida to its membership:

AAU welcomes President Biden’s nomination of Monica Bertagnolli to serve as the director of the National Institutes of Health.

The Association of American Universities has appointed members and co-chairs to a new task force to study expanding research and higher education partnerships between the United States and India.

AAU welcomes President Biden’s FY24 budget request, and we appreciate that it includes increases for many of our priorities in research and education.