THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SYSTEM lobbying for THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SYSTEM

Filing 2nd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

2nd Quarter 2025

Apr 1 - June 30 · Posted Jul 20, 2025

Expenses

$115,000.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using A: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

North Carolina

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 1

ELIZABETH MORRA

Previously held: Elizabeth Morra, VP Federal Relations, UNC System

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

Government bodies contacted 6

Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
Education, Dept of
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Natl Archives & Records Administration (NARA)
SENATE
Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Bills named in this filing 6

HR 1
An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
HR 4
Rescissions Act of 2025
HR 6951
College Cost Reduction Act
S 558
Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2025
HR 1048
DETERRENT Act
HR 1458
VETS Opportunity Act of 2025

Lobbying activity 12

Budget/Appropriations

H.R.1 -OBBBA, Provisions/funding impacting higher ed H.R.4 - Rescissions Act of 2025, funding cuts to public television (CPB) FY 25 Continuing Resolution and associated funding accounts FY26 LHHS-Education: Funding for Pell Grants, SEOG, Federal Work Study, TRIO, Gear UP, NIH, HHS, MSIs - including HBCU and NASNTI, Teacher Quality Partnership Grants, Postsecondary Student Success Grants, GAANN, Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding FY 26 Commerce, Justice, Science: Funding for NSF, NASA, NOAA, NIST FY 26 Agriculture Appropriations: Funding for NIFA programs FY 26 DoD Appropriations: Funding for S&T, S&T Basic Research, DARPA, Army RTD&E - Pathfinder Airborne, iCOMMAND FY 26 Energy & Water Appropriations: Funding for DOE, ARPA-E FIPSE community project funding Transportation-HUD (CDF/EDI) community project funding Project/program cancellations

Education

HR.1 - OBBBA, Provisions impacting higher education - GRAD Plus loans, IDR plans, Affordability provisions, Workforce Pell, Subsidized/Unsubsidized student loans New F&A (indirect costs) model for federal research College Cost Reduction Act (CCRA), HR 6951 Antisemitism Awareness Act (S. 558) and other antisemitism-related bills impacting campuses Deterrent Act (HR 1048) Various program terminations: Teacher Quality Partnerships, SEED, NASNTI

Agriculture

USDA program terminations/stop work orders RFA funding in Farm Bill portion of HR.1, OBBBA

Defense

DoD research accounts Pathfinder Airborne funding strategy iCOMMAND funding strategy DoD research FY25 cuts (CR) New F&A model and proposed caps impacting federal research funding

Transportation

Nothing this quarter

Veterans

VETS Opportunity Act, HR 1458

Aviation/Airlines/Airports

Nothing this quarter

Immigration

Various issues related to international student visas

Science/Technology

NSF,NASA, NIH and NOAA program cuts and terminations Proposed NIH, NSF and DOE F&A cuts and new model

Retirement

Nothing this quarter

Homeland Security

Nothing this quarter

Indian/Native American Affairs

Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions (NASNTI) funding of importance to UNC Pembroke. Funded in Dept of Education. Lumbee Recognition Bill