Press Releases

While AAU strongly supports the Endless Frontier Act’s core goals to strengthen the National Science Foundation, American innovation, and our nation’s economic competitiveness and security, we fear those goals will be undermined by many of the additional provisions that were not part of the original legislation, but that the Senate is now considering

The Association of American Universities today announced that Tufts University has joined the association. The addition of this leading research university brings AAU’s membership total to 66 institutions – 64 American and two Canadian members.

The Association of American Universities (AAU) has received a $570,000 gift from the Sarah Gilbert & Carl Wieman Charitable Fund to find better methods for teaching evaluation in university undergraduate STEM departments.

We applaud Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), and Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Mike Gallagher (R-WI) for reintroducing the bipartisan Endless Frontier Act.

Below is a statement, joined by AAU and more than 50 other higher-education organizations in the United States, strongly opposing attempts in states across the country to limit voting access.

After years of spending caps that have held back federal higher education and research investments, President Biden’s discretionary budget outline charts a bold new course to a healthier, greener, more equitable, and more prosperous future for all Americans.

President Barbara R. Snyder issued a statement praising investments in science, research in White House’s American Jobs Plan.

President Barbara R. Snyder issued a statement about the introduction of the bipartisan National Science Foundation for the Future Act.

President Snyder issued a statement about the House passing H.R. 6, the “American Dream and Promise Act of 2021."

President Snyder released a statement applauding the passage and signing of the American Rescue Plan