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Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced the WashU Pledge, a bold new financial aid program that will provide a free undergraduate education to incoming, full-time Missouri and southern Illinois students who are Pell Grant-eligible or from families with annual incomes of $75,000 or less.
Affordability and Student Aid | Washington University in St. LouisCNSF, of which AAU is a member and co-chair, letter to OMB Director Shalanda Young and OSTP Director Arati Prabhakar asking for the administration to request the full amount authorized in CHIPS and Science for NSF in FY24.
FY24 | Federal Budget | Agency Budgets | National Science Foundation | Innovation and Competitiveness | LettersAAU joined 15 other associations in urging the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee to include the Tax-Free Pell Grant Act in end-of-the year tax legislation.
Taxation & Finance | Student Aid Tax Issues | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersAAU 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 | LettersSenators sent letter to OMB Director Shalanda Young urging the White House to include in the FY24 budget request the full amount authorized in CHIPS for the DOE Office of Science.
FY24 | Innovation and Competitiveness | Department of Energy | Agency Budgets | Federal Budget | LettersFormer Directors of the NSF and Chairs of the NSB wrote to the President, Vice President and the Congress to make the case for funding the NSF at levels authorized in the CHIPS and Science Act.
FY23 | FY24 | Federal Budget | Agency Budgets | National Science Foundation | Innovation and Competitiveness | 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 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 | Letters