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...Senator's reaction is becoming typical according to lobbyists for several universities. "I have noticed a disturbing growth in cynicism about universities, the one attitude we cannot long survive," says Robert M. Rosenzweig, president of the Association of American Universities (AAU...
Representatives from higher education organizations fought hard to insert provisions which would protect their members. The two largest organizations, the American Council on Education (ACE), an umbrella group of almost all colleges and universities in the nation, and the AAU, lobbied especially hard, but to no avail--The bill passed...
Carol Schieman, AAU director of governmental relations, agrees. "It was just a recognition that higher education had been treated more than favorably in the past while other interests had not," she says...
Several organizations of colleges and universities plan to lobby heavily this year to prevent further encroachments on researchers' autonomy. These include the Council on Government Relations, "Little Eleven"--an informal group of the nation's top 11 research universities--and the Association of American Universities (AAU), to all three of which Harvard belongs...
University officials say Harvard has been slow to take the lead in responding to the Defense and other departments new regulations, primarily because Harvard has escaped concrete harm. But with President Bok chairing the AAU next year and Shattuck's interest in the issue, this is expected to change...