• Higher education policy. H.R.51 - Funding for Student Scholarships for the 1890s Land-Grant African-American Colleges and Universities Act H.R.1135 - To reauthorize the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic Preservation program
• H.R.244 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017
• H.R.2810 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018

Duration: January 14, 2016 to June 30, 2017

General Issues: Education, Budget/Appropriations, Defense

Spending: about $240,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2016: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Affiliated organizations: Alcorn State University; University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff; Alabama A&M University; Lincoln University; Prairie View A&M University; Southern University and A&M College; Virginia State University; Kentucky State University; University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Florida A&M University; Delaware State University; North Carolina A&T State University; Fort Valley State University; South Carolina State University; Langston University; Tennessee State University; Tuskegee University; Central State University; West Virginia State University