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The University of Pennsylvania announced the Quaker Commitment, a sweeping new financial aid initiative designed to support families from middle-income backgrounds by increasing financial aid packages and guaranteeing full tuition scholarships to a greater number of students.
Affordability and Student Aid | Student Aid | University of PennsylvaniaAmerica’s leading research universities are at the forefront of making high-quality education more affordable and accessible.
Affordability and Student AidMultiple AAU universities announced recently that they’re expanding free tuition programs for students from low- and middle-income families.
Affordability and Student Aid | Brandeis University | The University of Texas at Austin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Carnegie Mellon University | University of Pennsylvania | Leading Research Universities ReportAAU, along with 14 other higher education organizations, joined a letter led by ACE to House leadership expressing strong opposition to section 6 of H.R. 6585, the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act.
Higher Education Regulation | Higher Education Legislation | Student Aid Tax Issues | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | Graduate Education | LettersAAU submitted a letter to House leadership and members of the House of Representatives regarding H.R. 6951, the College Cost Reduction Act (CCRA). AAU expressed concerns that the CCRA would adversely impact postsecondary education. The letter states, “AAU opposes the CCRA, as the bill will fail to…
Higher Education Legislation | Affordability and Student Aid | Graduate Education | LettersCNSF sent letters to congressional science appropriators requesting at least $11.9 billion in funding for the National Science Foundation in FY24.
National Science Foundation | FY24 | Agency Budgets | Federal Budget | Graduate Education | LettersAAU joined an ACE letter to the House Committee on Labor-HHS funding for FY24.
Higher Education Legislation | Federal Budget | Department of Education | Student Aid | FY24 | Graduate Education | LettersAAU joined the Coalition for International Education on a letter to the House Appropriations Committee leaders concerning the Subcommittee’s FY 2024 funding levels for HEA-Title VI and Fulbright-Hays.
Higher Education Legislation | FY24 | Federal Budget | Graduate Education | LettersNearly 400 members of the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research, including AAU and many AAU member institutions, joined a statement recommending that Congress provide at least $50.924 billion for the National Institutes of Health in FY24.
National Institutes of Health | FY24 | Agency Budgets | Federal Budget | Graduate Education | LettersAAU signed onto a Student Aid Alliance (SAA) letter, for which AAU is a member of the Steering Committee, along with 34 other members, to urge Congress to support increases in several impactful postsecondary education programs for the FY24 budget such as an increase in the maximum Pell Grant to $13…
Higher Education Legislation | FY24 | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | Federal Budget | Department of Education | Graduate Education | Letters