• Advocacy of the University's budget/appropriation priorities.
• Issues related to Higher Education Act re: authorization, college, acess and affordability; Public safety funding and eligibility issues; and economic development issues, including programs to support commercialization of University R&D.

Duration: September 1, 2006 to February 28, 2014

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Education, Economics/Economic Development

Spending: about $1,400,000 (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 2006: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Education - Dept of, Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), White House Office, Natl Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Army - Dept of (Other), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Small Business Adminstration (SBA), Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Office of Justice Program, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Economic Development Administration, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Energy - Dept of, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Defense Dept of (DOD)