CRA Government Affairs

Computing Research Policy Blog

The Computing Research Association (or CRA) has been involved in shaping public policy of relevance to computing research for more than two decades. More recently the CRA Government Affairs program has enhanced its efforts to help the members of the computing research community contribute to the public debate knowledgeably and effectively.

Posts categorized under: Impediments to Research Highlights

CRA Statement Concerning New Restrictions on Chinese Graduate Students in the U.S.

June 12, 2018/In: Computing Education, CS Education & IT Workforce Highlights, Impediments to Research Highlights, Information Technology R&D Highlights, People, Policy, STEM /by Peter Harsha

The Computing Research Association, representing more than 200 Ph.D.-granting departments of computing in North America, expresses great concern at new guidance provided to U.S. consular officers that would place restrictions on students from China who wish to study robotics, advanced manufacturing, or aerospace research in the United States.

CRA Expresses Concern at New Executive Order Suspending Visas

January 27, 2017/In: CRA, Impediments to Research Highlights, People, Policy /by Peter Harsha

The Computing Research Association released the following statement in response to President Trump’s new Executive Order, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States”

Computing Community Weighs in on “Truthy” Controversy

November 4, 2014/In: CRA, Impediments to Research Highlights, R&D in the Press, Research /by Peter Harsha

Five leading computing societies and associations today released a letter they’ve jointly sent to House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) and committee Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) expressing their concern over mischaracterizations of research on information diffusion in online social networks at Indiana University. The work has come under fire […]