{"id":177098,"date":"2026-01-12T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/microsoft-fellow-looks-at-preparing-the-ai-workforce-one-community-college-at-a-time-virginia-tech-news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:30:16","slug":"microsoft-fellow-looks-at-preparing-the-ai-workforce-one-community-college-at-a-time-virginia-tech-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/microsoft-fellow-looks-at-preparing-the-ai-workforce-one-community-college-at-a-time-virginia-tech-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fellow looks at preparing the AI workforce, one community college at a time | Virginia Tech News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vt.edu\/articles\/2026\/01\/coe-artificial-intelligence-microsoft-fellow-sarah-rodriguez.html\">Microsoft fellow looks at preparing the AI workforce, one community college at a time | Virginia Tech News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vt.edu\/articles\/2026\/01\/coe-artificial-intelligence-microsoft-fellow-sarah-rodriguez.html\">https:\/\/news.vt.edu\/articles\/2026\/01\/coe-artificial-intelligence-microsoft-fellow-sarah-rodriguez.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 14:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.vt.edu\">news.vt.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah L. Rodriguez, a former beneficiary of the Gates Millennium Scholarship, was awarded a senior fellowship from the Microsoft AI Economy Institute, focusing on AI readiness in U.S. community colleges.<\/li>\n<li>Rodriguez will explore how these institutions prepare students for an AI-driven economy, recognizing their vital role as a workforce development entry point.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>She aims to understand the regional influences on AI workforce development and is aligned with Microsoft&#8217;s need for an AI-fluent workforce.<\/li>\n<li>Having a history of partnership with Miami Dade College, the largest in the U.S., Rodriguez brings personal and professional insight into the importance of community colleges in higher education.<\/li>\n<li>As part of the fellowship, Rodriguez will be supported with a $82,500 seed gift and will collaborate with a global group of scholars, meeting both virtually and in person.<\/li>\n<li>She is involved in a policy workshop, focusing on influencing practice and policy globally around AI.<\/li>\n<li>Rodriguez\u2019s current engagement is marked by a full-circle moment as she collaborates with Malle Schilling, a Virginia Tech engineering education alumna, underscoring the institution\u2019s support for its alumni.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft fellow looks at preparing the AI workforce, one community college at a time |&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.vt.edu\/content\/dam\/news_vt_edu\/articles\/2026\/01\/SRodriguez_full.jpg.transform\/l-medium\/image.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177100,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177098\/revisions\/177100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}