Start a New Search
SHOWING 133 RESULTS
AAU joined ACE in submitting comments in response to the Department of Education’s proposed changes to the major student loan relief programs authorized by the Higher Education Act.
Department of Education | Higher Education Legislation | Affordability and Student Aid | Student Loans | LettersAAU joined the American Council on Education and 38 other higher education associations in filing an amicus brief in support of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the pending Supreme Court cases involving the use of race-conscious admissions.
Higher Education Legislation | Higher Education Regulation | Legal BriefAAU, ACE, and other higher education organizations sent a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate education committees endorsing the College Transparency Act (S. 839/H.R. 2030) and urging the inclusion of CTA language currently in the America COMPETES Act in the final and reconciled…
Higher Education Legislation | Higher Education Regulation | Innovation and Competitiveness | Department of Education | Student Aid | Affordability and Student Aid | LettersThe Task Force on American Innovation, an alliance of industry, professional societies, and university organizations including AAU, sent a letter urging congressional leaders to include supplemental appropriations for science and technology programs in the final conference agreement on the House-…
FY22 | FY23 | National Science Foundation | Department of Energy | Innovation and Competitiveness | LettersAAU joined 89 other associations and organizations in urging Congress “to support and prioritize the mental and behavioral health needs” of students in higher education. The associations’ letter notes that the mental health crisis among college students has long been under addressed and has…
COVID-19 | Higher Education Legislation | LettersAAU President Barbara R. Snyder wrote House and Senate appropriators to thank them for the recently signed H.R. 2471, the Consolidated Appropriations Act making final appropriations in FY22.
FY22 | Federal Budget | LettersAAU joined ACE and 20 higher education associations in a letter to Congress outlining priorities for provisions related to STEM education and scientific research and innovation in the America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology, and Economic Strength (COMPETES) Act…
Innovation and Competitiveness | Higher Education Regulation | Higher Education Legislation | Department of Education | Science & Security | Immigration | National Science Foundation | Department of Energy | LettersAAU joined ACE and 31 other organizations on a letter to Senate HELP Committee leaders urging them to adopt a amendment by Senator Chris Murphy to add the ‘‘Temporary Reciprocity to Ensure Access to Treatment Act,” or TREAT Act to the PREVENT Pandemics Act (S. 3799).
COVID-19 | Higher Education Legislation | LettersThis table represents the current status of FY22 appropriations for AAU’s funding priorities at the Departments of Education, Energy, and Defense as well as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, AFRI, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
FY22 | Federal Budget | Agriculture & Food Research Initiative | Department of Defense | Department of Education | Department of Energy | National Endowment for the Humanities | National Institutes of Health | NASA | Appropriations Tables | Humanities | Fact SheetsThis is the AAU summary of the H.R. 2471, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, which will fund the federal government until the end of the fiscal year, ending September 30, 2022.
Federal Budget | FY22 | Issue Brief