{"id":187204,"date":"2026-02-13T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/hillsborough-college-receives-250k-in-federal-funds-for-new-artificial-intelligence-center\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:25:11","slug":"hillsborough-college-receives-250k-in-federal-funds-for-new-artificial-intelligence-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/hillsborough-college-receives-250k-in-federal-funds-for-new-artificial-intelligence-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough College receives $250k in federal funds for new Artificial Intelligence center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/hillsborough-college-receives-250k-in-federal-funds-for-new-artificial-intelligence-center\/\">Hillsborough College receives $250k in federal funds for new Artificial Intelligence center<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/hillsborough-college-receives-250k-in-federal-funds-for-new-artificial-intelligence-center\/\">https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/hillsborough-college-receives-250k-in-federal-funds-for-new-artificial-intelligence-center\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-13 15:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wmnf.org\">www.wmnf.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hillsborough College secured $250,000 in funding to establish an Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center.<\/li>\n<li>The goal is to prepare students for a future dominated by AI skills in both technical and general careers.<\/li>\n<li>Dean Chris Paynter emphasized the importance of the funding to build a lab with high-tech workspaces for AI development.<\/li>\n<li>The project includes launching a degree program in AI, based on the recognition of a growing need for such specialized knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>Additional resources will support professional development for K-12 and technical college educators in AI.<\/li>\n<li>Paynter highlights the demand from employers seeking students with AI skills for internal AI system development and efficiency processes.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics identifies software developers and personal finance advisors as two occupations most impacted by AI advancements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsborough College receives $250k in federal funds for new Artificial Intelligence center https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/hillsborough-college-receives-250k-in-federal-funds-for-new-artificial-intelligence-center\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.wmnf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Artificial-intelligence-by-ismagilov-via-iStock-for-WMNF-News.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-187204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187204"}],"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=187204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187206,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187204\/revisions\/187206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}