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  • Press Release

    Higher Education Association Statement on the SUCCESS Act

    Joint statement by the AAMC, AAU, APLU, AUTM, and COGR on the Study of Underrepresented Classes Chasing Engineering and Science Success (SUCCESS) Act and efforts to foster greater diversity and inclusion within the innovation ecosystem.

    Leef Smith Barnes, AUTM

    The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges), Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), and Council on Governmental Relations (COGR) today released the following statement on the SUCCESS Act:

    As associations representing research universities, their medical schools and their research and technology transfer professionals, we applaud the introduction of the SUCCESS Act.

    We strongly support finding ways to increase the participation of women and underrepresented populations in innovation and invention. Through the joint study to be conducted by the Small Business Administration and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, we hope this effort will develop new ways that government can help foster greater diversity and inclusion within the innovation ecosystem.


    The Association of American Medical Colleges is a not-for-profit association dedicated to transforming health care through innovative medical education, cutting-edge patient care, and groundbreaking medical research. Its members are all 154 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools; nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including 51 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and more than 80 academic societies. Through these institutions and organizations, the AAMC serves the leaders of America’s medical schools and teaching hospitals and their more than 173,000 full-time faculty members, 89,000 medical students, 129,000 resident physicians, and more than 60,000 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the biomedical sciences.


    The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) is a nonprofit association dedicated to improving the health of people everywhere through medical education, health care, medical research, and community collaborations. Its members are all 158 U.S. medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education; 13 accredited Canadian medical schools; approximately 400 academic health systems and teaching hospitals, including Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and more than 70 academic societies. Through these institutions and organizations, the AAMC leads and serves America’s medical schools, academic health systems and teaching hospitals, and the millions of individuals across academic medicine, including more than 193,000 full-time faculty members, 96,000 medical students, 153,000 resident physicians, and 60,000 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the biomedical sciences. Following a 2022 merger, the Alliance of Academic Health Centers and the Alliance of Academic Health Centers International broadened participation in the AAMC by U.S. and international academic health centers.