• The JSU Team met with and briefed members of Congressman Mike Rogers, Senators Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby team and discussed the potential grants that University would like to apply for in the future. These grants will help the University recruit and retain more students. Will student enrollment declining - the University must rely more heavily on Federal grants to develop new curriculum and make needed improvements to aging facilities.

Duration: January 6, 2015 to January 1, 2017

General Issues: Education

Spending: about $42,000 (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 2015: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives