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SAA letter to Congress on FY24 education cuts.
Higher Education Legislation | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | Department of Education | LettersAAU joined COGR and APLU to provide comments on a proposed policy from NASA, which would update the terms and conditions of grants funded to include new requirements related to disclosure of conflict of interest and conflict of commitment.
Research Administration & Regulation | NASA | Conflicts of Interest | CommentsVanderbilt University expands Opportunity Vanderbilt, offering full-tuition scholarships to admitted students from families with annual incomes of $150,000 or less.
Affordability and Student Aid | Vanderbilt UniversityAAU submitted a letter to House leadership regarding H.R.. 6585, the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act, expressing a strong opposition to the offset included in the bill that would harm some institutions of higher education.
Higher Education Regulation | Higher Education Legislation | Student Aid Tax Issues | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersWhile AAU would have liked to have seen an increase in NIH funding in FY24, we are pleased that Congress will soon be able to avoid a year-long continuing resolution which will ensure that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) can continue to fund new promising research projects.
Federal Budget | Agency Budgets | National Institutes of Health | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | Press ReleasesThe Double Pell Alliance, of which AAU is a Steering Committee Member, sent a letter to congressional appropriation leaders urging them to double the maximum Pell Grant Award to $13,000.
Higher Education Legislation | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersThe Student Aid Alliance, of which AAU is a member of the Steering Committee, sent a letter to Secretary Miguel Cardona of the U.S. Department of Education and Director Shalanda Young of the Office of Management and Budget urging them to increase federal student aid for the fiscal year 2026 budget…
Federal Budget | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | Higher Education Regulation | LettersThe American Talent Initiative has awarded grants to five AAU institutions to support projects “that break barriers and increase college access and success for lower-income students.”
Affordability and Student Aid | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Indiana University Bloomington | Georgia Institute of Technology | University of California Santa Cruz | Stony Brook University - The State University of New York | Leading Research Universities ReportA new report from the College Board reveals that, despite rising sticker prices (published tuition and fees) for full-time undergraduate students, the net price that students and their families pay after grant aid, even after adjusted for inflation, is lower than it was 10 years ago.
Affordability and Student Aid | Leading Research Universities ReportDartmouth College's Call to Lead campaign raised over $120 million in scholarship gifts and pledges to the endowment, allowing the elimination of need-based loans as part of undergraduate students’ financial aid packages and replacing them with expanded scholarship grants beginning with the 2022…
Affordability and Student Aid | Dartmouth