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President Biden’s Build Back Better framework is a good start toward making college more affordable for hardworking American families.
Federal Budget | Affordability and Student Aid | Student Aid | Press ReleasesThe Agriculture Food and Research Initiative Coalition, which includes AAU, sent a letter to House and Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Leaders requesting they provide at least $600 million for AFRI in FY22 appropriations.
Federal Budget | FY22 | Innovation and Competitiveness | LettersThe Student Aid Alliance sent a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee leadership House and Senate Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee staff requesting the committee fund federal student aid programs without statutory budget caps.
Student Aid | Higher Education Legislation | FY22 | Federal Budget | LettersAAU letter to Members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction urging them to keep in mind that drastic cuts to research investments in the discretionary accounts, both defense and non-defense, would set a dangerous precedent that would inhibit immediate scientific progress and threaten…
Federal Budget | Fiscal Policy | LettersAAU joined 75 other higher education associations in sending a letter urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to “preserve critical investments in college affordability and college completion in the final Build Back Better package.”
Affordability and Student Aid | FY22 | Student Aid | Federal Budget | LettersThe House Rules Committee on November 3 released updated text for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act. The revised text retains many of the proposed changes contained in the bill text the Rules Committee released on October 28 that mirrored President Biden’s $1.75 trillion reconciliation bill…
Student Aid | Federal Budget | Innovation and Competitiveness | Taxation & Finance | AnalysisAAU and APLU sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Shalanda Young urging continued robust support in the administration’s FY23 budget for higher education and scientific research investments that are crucial to the health, security, prosperity, and future of our nation.
FY23 | Federal Budget | LettersAAU joined 34 organizations in sending a letter urging Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to prioritize and strengthen the Education Department's international and foreign language education and research funding in FY23, specifically for the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs.
FY23 | Federal Budget | Higher Education Legislation | LettersAAU joined the Energy Sciences Coalition (ESC) in a letter to the Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Shalanda D. Young, urging continued support in the administration’s FY23 budget for the Department of Energy Office of Science.
FY23 | Federal Budget | LettersAAU, through the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research sent a letter asking the leaders of the House and Senate appropriations committees to include robust investments in the FY22 spending package for NIH
National Institutes of Health | Federal Budget | Letters