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Comments to NSF on Workforce Development
| 1/15/2026 | ACE submitted comments to NSF responding to a Request for Information on workforce development in emerging technologies. |
Topic(s): Workforce Development; Science and Technology
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Letter to OSTP in Response to Request for Information on Federal Policy Research
| 12/22/2025 | ACE and 15 other associations sent a letter to OSTP commenting on the agency’s request for information on federal policy to accelerate the American scientific enterprise. |
Topic(s): Research; Science and Technology
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Letter to ED on the Proposed Admissions Data Information Collection Request
| 12/15/2025 | Letter from ACE President Ted Mitchell to the Education Department reiterating ACE's strong opposition to ACTS survey component proposed in response to the Presidential Memorandum regarding higher education admissions. |
Topic(s): Higher Education Act; Regulation; Data
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Amicus Brief to the First Circuit in American Public Health Association et. al. v. NIH
| 11/19/2025 | ACE joined an amicus brief led by AAMC and AAU urging the First Circuit to uphold a ruling requiring the executive branch to reinstate billions in NIH research grants canceled after President Trump took office. |
Topic(s): Science and Technology; Law and Courts; Research; Research Funding
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Type: Amicus Brief
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Conference Recommendations on the NDAA
| 11/18/2025 | ACE and 21 higher education associations urged National Defense Authorization Act conferees to retain targeted research-security provisions while rejecting several proposals that would impose duplicative or unworkable restrictions on federally funded university research. |
Topic(s): Federal Budget and Appropriations; Research; Research Funding; Science and Technology
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Comments on Federal Regulatory Reform for Artificial Intelligence
| 10/28/2025 | ACE and eight higher education associations submitted comments to the Office of Science and Technology Policy urging that federal efforts to deregulate artificial intelligence maintain essential safeguards for human oversight, privacy protections, and equitable access across institutions. |
Topic(s): Science and Technology; Regulation
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Letter to Congressional Appropriators on the FAIR Model
| 9/22/2025 | More than 160 organizations sent this letter this week to House and Senate appropriators urging support for the Joint Associations Group’s FAIR model for funding the full costs of federally supported research.
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Topic(s): Science and Technology; Research; Research Funding; Federal Budget and Appropriations
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Amicus Brief Urging the Supreme Court to Allow the Reinstatement of Canceled NIH Grants
| 8/1/2025 | Eight associations, including ACE, filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to reject the Trump administration’s bid to block reinstatement of about 1,200 canceled National Institutes of Health grants. |
Topic(s): Research; Research Funding; Science and Technology; Law and Courts
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Type: Amicus Brief
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Joint Association Letter to NIH on Reinstating Grants
| 7/29/2025 | A letter from six associations to the National Institutes of Health requesting the reinstatement of all grants that NIH has terminated under agency directives found by a federal court to be unlawful. |
Topic(s): Science and Technology; Research; STEM; Research Funding
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Legal Challenge to Trump Administration’s Cut to DOD Research Funding
| 6/16/2025 | This complaint, filed by ACE, AAU, APLU, and 12 institutions in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, seeks to halt the Department of Defense’s proposed cap on indirect cost reimbursements for research grants. |
Topic(s): Law and Courts; Research Funding; Science and Technology; Research; Executive Branch
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