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  • APLU Applauds House Passage of the Future Act

    Washington – APLU President Peter McPherson tonight released the following statement regarding House passage of the FUTURE Act.

  • APLU Urges U.S. Department of Justice to Block Proposed Merger of Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education

    Washington, DC – Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) President Peter McPherson today sent the following letter to Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division Makan Delrahim, urging that the U.S. Department of Justice block the proposed merger of Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education. McPherson warned that, if allowed, the merger would likely lead to…

  • APLU Urges Members of Alaska State Legislature to Override Line-Item Veto that Would Exact Massive Cuts to Alaska’s State Universities

    Washington, DC – APLU President Peter McPherson today sent the following letter to Alaska Senate President Cathy Giessel, Alaska Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon, and all the members of the 31st Alaska State Legislature urging them to override the line-item veto that would exact massive cuts to Alaska’s state universities.

  • APLU Strongly Opposes Proposed Cuts to Pell Grant Reserve

    Washington, DC – Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) President Peter McPherson today sent the following letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees urging them to reject the administration’s revised budget request, which would rescind $3.9 billion from the Pell Grant reserve to, in part, fund the National Aeronautics and…

  • APLU Hails House Appropriations Committee Approval of FY20 Bill that Boosts Student Aid & Biomedical Research Funding

    Washington, DC – Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) President Peter McPherson today released the following statement praising the House Appropriations Committee’s approval of the Fiscal Year 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies’ bill that increases funding for student aid and biomedical research.

  • APLU & AAU Urge Administration & Congress to Lift Budget Caps for Fiscal Years 2020 & 2021 to Better Support Student Aid & Research Programs

    Washington, DC – Association of Public and Land-grant Universities President Peter McPherson and Association of American Universities President Mary Sue Coleman sent the Office of Management and Budget and congressional leaders a letter urging them to negotiate a new bipartisan budget agreement that raises discretionary spending caps for fiscal years (FY) 2020 and 2021.

  • APLU Hails Final Agreement on Fiscal Year 2019 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill

    Washington, DC – Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) President Peter McPherson today released the following statement regarding the deal a House-Senate conference committee reached on a final version of the Fiscal Year 2019 Labor-HHS-Education bill.

  • APLU Submits Formal Comments to Department of Education Strongly Opposing Complete Elimination of Gainful Employment Rule

    Washington, DC – Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) President Peter McPherson last night submitted formal comments to the U.S. Department of Education in responses to its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on Gainful Employment (GE). APLU strongly opposes the complete elimination of GE and urges the Department to instead work to address legitimate…

  • APLU Statement on Senate Fiscal Year 2019 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill

    Washington, DC – Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) President Peter McPherson today released the following statement regarding the Senate Fiscal Year 2019 Labor-HHS-Education bill that the Senate Appropriations Committee approved.

  • APLU Applauds Bipartisan FY2018 Funding Bill

    Washington, DC – Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) President Peter McPherson today released the following statement regarding the bipartisan Fiscal Year 2018 omnibus appropriations bill agreement.

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