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AAU urges Congress and the Administration to harmonize, streamline, and eliminate unnecessary, duplicative regulations and reporting requirements.
Research Administration & Regulation | Reducing Regulatory Burden | RecommendationThe Association of American Universities (AAU) established the Task Force on Research Accountability in response to concerns that individual conflict of interest processes were not always achieving the highest standards, and that institutional conflict of interest policies had rarely been develop
Conflicts of Interest | Human Subjects Protection | ReportsThis 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Request for Information (RFI), asking for comments on regulations that should be modified, expanded, streamlined, or repealed to increase flexibility and reduce burden.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 | LettersA statement by Hunter Rawlings, President of AAU, on the Bipartisan Budget Act.
Fiscal Policy | Federal Budget | Press ReleasesA statement by Hunter Rawlings, President of AAU, on the omnibus appropriations and tax bills Congress will consider this week.
Federal Budget | National Science Foundation | FY16 | Agency Budgets | National Institutes of Health | Department of Defense | Department of Energy | NASA | Department of Education | National Endowment for the Humanities | Agriculture & Food Research Initiative | Fiscal Policy | Taxation & Finance | Endowments and Charitable Giving | Press ReleasesFour Associations, including Association of American Universities, wrote in support of the proposal to delay the general compliance date of the revised common rule.
Research Administration & Regulation | Human Subjects Protection | LettersAAU and other organizations sent a letter to representatives Pocan, Deutch, DelBene, Speier, Raskin, Nadler, DeGette, Lee, Lofgren, and Khanna to express their support for their amendment to H.R. 2740
Human Subjects Protection | Conflicts of Interest | LettersAAU joined CUPA-HR-led comments in response to the Labor Department’s proposed overtime rule, which formally rescinds the Department’s 2016 rule. The rule, published in March 2019, would increase the annual salary threshold that determines which employees qualify for overtime pay from $455 to $679…
Reducing Regulatory Burden | CommentsAAU, AAMC, APLU, and COGR sent a joint letter to the Office for Human Resources Protection (OHRP) expressing concern about the application of the cooperative research requirement under the revised Common Rule.
Human Subjects Protection | Research Administration & Regulation | Conflicts of Interest | LettersTFAI letter to Senator Murray and Representative Hensarling stating belief that it is imperative that our government adopt policies to reduce the budget deficit and stabilize our national debt.
Federal Budget | Innovation and Competitiveness | Fiscal Policy | Letters