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AAU joined ACE and other associations in sending a letter to Sen. Dick Durbin and Sen. Roger Wicker thanking them for reintroducing the Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Program Act.
Higher Education Legislation | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersThe Task Force on American Innovation sent a letter asking Congress to complete negotiations on fiscal year 2022 funding bills encouraging bicameral and bipartisan support to fund key investments in scientific and engineering research and development agencies.
FY22 | Federal Budget | National Science Foundation | NASA | Department of Defense | LettersAn expansion of the Emory Advantage program will eliminate need-based loans as part of undergraduate students’ financial aid packages, replacing them with institutional grants and scholarships beginning this fall for the 2022-23 academic year.
Affordability and Student Aid | Emory UniversityAAU joined 187 organizations in encouraging Congress to invest in America’s students by doubling the maximum Pell Grant award
Affordability and Student Aid | Student Aid | FY22 | LettersAAU wrote a letter to Congress urging the passage of FY22 appropriations bills before the end of the year.
FY22 | Federal Budget | LettersUnited for Medical Research, of which AAU is a founding member, sent letters urging House and Senate leaders to avoid another continuing resolution and to complete FY22 appropriations
National Institutes of Health | FY22 | LettersThe House approved its final compromise NDAA bill, S. 1605 on December 7, 2021 on a 363-70 vote. The final NDAA authorizes $768.1 billion in defense spending, $25 billion more than the President’s FY22 budget request.
Department of Defense | Science & Security | FY22AAU sent a letter to Congress urging passage of final FY22 appropriations and Build Back Better Act provisions important to our nation’s health, economic competitiveness, security, and crucial government-university research partnership.
Federal Budget | FY22 | Innovation and Competitiveness | Affordability and Student Aid | Agency Budgets | LettersAAU sent a letter to President Biden requesting that the Department of Education extend FAFSA verification waivers for the 2022-23 award year.
Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersAAU sent a letter encouraging members of the Agriculture Subcommittees of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to support “increased investments to advance agricultural research in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)” in the FY22 agriculture appropriations bill
FY22 | Agency Budgets | Agriculture & Food Research Initiative | Letters