AACN's Latest Advocacy, Coalition, and Policy Efforts
October 23: AACN signed onto a letter led by the American Council on Education (ACE) to the Department of Homeland Security seeking clarification about the new $100,000 fee for new H-1B applications and asking that institutions of higher education be exempted from this fee.
October 2: AACN signed onto a Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions (FASHP) letter to the U.S. Department of Education regarding its negotiated rulemaking process on the implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The letter urges the Department to ensure that the health professions workforce is considered a single, integrated workforce when determining loan eligibility criteria.
September 30: AACN signed onto a letter led by American Council on Education (ACE) asking that Congress ensure all funding allocated in the FY 2026 appropriation process be spent by the Administration as intended.
September 29: AACN signed onto a comment letter led by the American Council on Education (ACE) to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expressing serious concerns and in strong opposition to the proposed rule “Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media.”
September 22: AACN signed onto a letter with 226 organizations in support of the Joint Associations Group on Indirect Costs (JAG), thanking appropriators for including language in some of the spending bills and reports to date, and urging that they strengthen language in the final spending bills supporting the JAG work and prohibiting the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from instituting arbitrary caps on federal support for research costs.
September 19: AACN signed onto a letter led by the Alliance for Aging Research urging the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to recommend the full schedule of vaccines and ensure access and patient choice, recommend Covid-19 vaccines for all Americans 6 months and older, and uphold the process and Gold Standard of the ACIP.