Princeton University trustees, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other universities urged a federal appeals court against reversing an Energy Department policy that restricted certain types of funds for research.
“As the district court here correctly recognized, the DOE’s attempt to discard carefully negotiated institution-specific rates in favor of a one-size-fits-all 15% rate is the very definition of arbitrary and capricious agency action,” said the Association of American Universities and others in their brief filed Monday with the US Court of ...