{"id":217214,"date":"2026-05-20T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/california-colleges-introduce-ai-majors-to-meet-rising-demand-lake-county-record-bee\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:30:10","slug":"california-colleges-introduce-ai-majors-to-meet-rising-demand-lake-county-record-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/california-colleges-introduce-ai-majors-to-meet-rising-demand-lake-county-record-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"California colleges introduce AI majors to meet rising demand \u2013 Lake County Record-Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.record-bee.com\/2026\/05\/20\/california-colleges-introduce-ai-majors-to-meet-rising-demand\/\">California colleges introduce AI majors to meet rising demand \u2013 Lake County Record-Bee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.record-bee.com\/2026\/05\/20\/california-colleges-introduce-ai-majors-to-meet-rising-demand\/\">https:\/\/www.record-bee.com\/2026\/05\/20\/california-colleges-introduce-ai-majors-to-meet-rising-demand\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 09:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.record-bee.com\">www.record-bee.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christine Antonie has always aspired to major in computer science, following in the footsteps of her parents who had successful careers in related fields. She eventually chose Artificial Intelligence (AI) after discovering its applications in various fields during high school.<\/li>\n<li>Antonie participated in the Inspirit AI program, where she and her peers created an AI model to detect distracted drivers. The experience reinforced her interest in AI, leading her to pursue a degree in it at UC San Diego.<\/li>\n<li>University of California, San Diego (UCSD) started offering an AI major this fall, one of the few institutions in California to provide such a program. The major&#8217;s creation was inspired by an increasing demand for AI expertise and reports on its growing presence in various industries.<\/li>\n<li>The introduction of the UCSD AI major has caused some tension between computer science and AI majors due to the limited transfer opportunities and the perception by some that the AI major lacks coding experience.<\/li>\n<li>UC San Diego has partnered with community colleges to develop lower-division AI courses and improve transfer pathways. This initiative aims to offer more students the opportunity to pursue an AI education.<\/li>\n<li>The University of Southern California (USC) will begin its own AI major this fall, following UCSD and Stanford, which pioneered this field with its AI degree program in 2020. USC&#8217;s program will start small to identify and resolve any curriculum issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California colleges introduce AI majors to meet rising demand \u2013 Lake County Record-Bee https:\/\/www.record-bee.com\/2026\/05\/20\/california-colleges-introduce-ai-majors-to-meet-rising-demand\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.record-bee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/communitycolleges.jpg?w=1024&h=683","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-217214","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\/217214"}],"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=217214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217216,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217214\/revisions\/217216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}