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Amicus Brief in BMG Rights Management LLC v. Cox Communications, Inc., and Comcox
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Civil No. 14-CV-01611 (O’Grady, J.)
Higher Education Regulation | Legal Brief
AAU APLU COGR Letter: Identifying and Reducing Regulatory Burdens
This letter is in response to the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) January 26, 2016 Request for Information (RFI), asking for comments on regulations that should be modified, expanded, streamlined, or repealed to increase flexibility and reduce burden. 
Higher Education Regulation | Reducing Regulatory Burden | Letters
AAU Position Statement Grant Act, HR 3433
The Grant Reform and New Transparency (GRANT) Act aims to provide greater transparency to federal grant programs as a means of increasing accountability. The bill requires the creation of new government-wide public website on which information on all federal grants would be posted. Under current…
Research Administration & Regulation | Higher Education Regulation | Fact Sheets
Higher Education Community Comments on State Authorization NPRM
The following letters includes comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding state authorization for institutions of higher education that offer distance education and state authorization for foreign locations of domestic institutions that was published in the Federal Register on…
Higher Education Regulation | Student Aid | Letters
Higher Education Associations Comment on Borrower Defense Repayment NPRM
The following letter includes comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding borrower defenses to repayment that was published in the Federal Register on June 16, 2016 (Docket ID ED-2015-OPE-0103). This comment letter addresses recommendations related to the NPRM’s provisions on…
Higher Education Regulation | Student Loans | Student Aid | Letters
AAU Submits Recommendations for HEA Reauthorization
AAU submitted recommendations on reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) to Chair and Ranking Member of House Education and Workforce Committee.
Higher Education Legislation | Student Aid | Student Loans | Accreditation & Accountability | Higher Education Regulation | Letters
TFAI Urges Congress to Raise the BCA Budget Caps
The Task Force on American Innovation (TFAI) sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging the passage of a bipartisan, bicameral budget agreement that will raise the FY20 and FY21 defense and non-defense discretionary spending caps.
Federal Budget | FY20 | FY21 | Letters
Education Department Responds to Section 117 Reporting Guidance Requests
The Department of Education responded to a letter AAU, together with ACE, APLU, and four other higher education associations, sent to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that included questions about the interpretation of Section 117 of the Higher Education Act.
Higher Education Regulation | Science & Security | Letters
Coalitions Urge Congressional Leadership to Raise Budget Caps
A group of 13 coalitions, nine of which AAU is a member, today sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging them to work toward a bipartisan agreement to raise the Budget Control Act’s budget caps for FY20 and 21. The letter asserts that “a bipartisan agreement is needed to permit robust federal…
Federal Budget | FY20 | FY21 | Agency Budgets | Letters
FY20 Dear Colleague Letter Calls for Increase in NSF Funding
A letter was sent to the Senate Chairman Jerry Moran and Ranking Member Jeanne Shaheen requesting the maximum possible increase in funding for FY20 from FY19 levels for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
FY20 | National Science Foundation | Federal Budget | Letters