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Dartmouth 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 | DartmouthDartmouth College announces a groundbreaking bequest of over $150 million from the late Glenn and Barbara Britt, setting a new national benchmark in educational support for middle-income families.
Affordability and Student Aid | DartmouthThe 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 President Barbara R. Snyder congratulates Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on his selection by President-elect Trump to be director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the upcoming administration.
National Institutes of Health | Press ReleasesAAU, 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 | 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