AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoYouth Online Safety: New Jersey chose Rutgers to host a state research center studying social media’s effects on children, with a $500,000 launch grant and a mandate to advise policymakers, families and educators. International Enrollment: A new analysis says Canada’s international student boom is shrinking faster than colleges expected, prompting program cancellations, hiring freezes and campus consolidations; it argues for tighter regulation rather than a return to unchecked growth. Skills and Degrees: A report backed by Sir James Dyson and former education secretary David Blunkett says traditional degrees are not meeting employers’ needs and calls for more technical universities and career-focused courses. Student Costs: Illinois State’s Milner Library is launching grants to help faculty replace costly textbooks with free open resources; its e-textbook program has already saved students more than $10 million. Research Access: New walkways at the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 rainforest let students and visiting researchers safely reach the canopy, expanding studies of how tropical forests respond to heat and drought.
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