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AAU sent a letter urging the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to prioritize investments in higher education, scientific research, and student aid in FY24 302(b) discretionary spending allocations.
Federal Budget | Agency Budgets | FY24 | Innovation and Competitiveness | Costs of Research | Student Aid | LettersAAU joined the American Council on Education (ACE) and 18 other higher education organizations in endorsing the Tax-Free Pell Grant Act (H.R. 3000), which “would repeal the taxability of Pell Grants and help hundreds of thousands of low-income Pell Grant recipients access the American Opportunity…
Student Aid Tax Issues | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | Higher Education Regulation | Higher Education Legislation | Taxation & Finance | 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 | LettersThe Double Pell Alliance, which includes AAU, sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees asking them to “make bold new investments in the Pell Grant program, with the goal of increasing the maximum Pell award to $13,000.”
Higher Education Legislation | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersAAU joined ACE and other higher education organizations on a letter urging Congress to address the expiration of federal subsidy payments for BABs due to sequestration.
Taxation & Finance | Infrastructure and Innovation | LettersAAU joined ACE and 7 other associations in submitting comments to the Internal Revenue Service on a possible error in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 that could prevent some public universities from benefiting from green energy tax credits included in the law.
Taxation & Finance | Higher Education Legislation | 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 wrote a letter to Congress urging them to finish FY23 appropriations process this fall.
Federal Budget | Science & Security | Student Aid | Innovation and Competitiveness | Agency Budgets | LettersSenators Mazie Hirono (D-HI); Jack Reed (D-RI); and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) are circulating a letter in support of the Federal Pell Grant Program.
Student Aid | Federal Budget | Agency Budgets | LettersThis is a letter to House and Senate appropriations leaders urging them to make investments in fundamental scientific research and student aid a top priority as they consider FY23 302(b) allocations.
Federal Budget | FY23 | Agency Budgets | Student Aid | Letters