{"id":217811,"date":"2026-05-20T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/sd-board-of-regents-announces-ai-plans-amidst-skepticism-among-gen-z\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:40:23","slug":"sd-board-of-regents-announces-ai-plans-amidst-skepticism-among-gen-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/sd-board-of-regents-announces-ai-plans-amidst-skepticism-among-gen-z\/","title":{"rendered":"SD Board of Regents announces AI plans amidst skepticism among Gen Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dakotanewsnow.com\/2026\/05\/21\/sd-board-regents-announces-ai-plans-amidst-skepticism-among-gen-z\/\">SD Board of Regents announces AI plans amidst skepticism among Gen Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dakotanewsnow.com\/2026\/05\/21\/sd-board-regents-announces-ai-plans-amidst-skepticism-among-gen-z\/\">https:\/\/www.dakotanewsnow.com\/2026\/05\/21\/sd-board-regents-announces-ai-plans-amidst-skepticism-among-gen-z\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 22:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.dakotanewsnow.com\">www.dakotanewsnow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The South Dakota Board of Regents has outlined strategic objectives for integrating AI into the state\u2019s public universities, emphasizing responsible use and preparation to meet workforce demands.<\/li>\n<li>Their approach focuses on five core components: governance and infrastructure needs, curricular and programmatic impacts, optimization and utilization of agentic AI, research, and development of AI literacy and fluency among students, faculty, and staff.<\/li>\n<li>There is a mix of excitement and skepticism surrounding AI, with recent polls showing declining enthusiasm among Gen Z, suggesting the need for balanced, ethical education on AI.<\/li>\n<li>The University of South Dakota, particularly the Center of Teaching and Learning, has made significant progress in implementing these core components, especially in developing AI literacy.<\/li>\n<li>Mandie Weinandt from the University of South Dakota stresses the importance of teaching AI as a useful tool rather than a crutch, and the necessity of understanding both its benefits and potential downsides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SD Board of Regents announces AI plans amidst skepticism among Gen Z https:\/\/www.dakotanewsnow.com\/2026\/05\/21\/sd-board-regents-announces-ai-plans-amidst-skepticism-among-gen-z\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-ksfy-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/GMFOMPYOEFATPMI23MIR7DLTPQ.jpg?auth=6815a62f576c6e3664c7b7f843b2415573f0549fc6382dd00635e43bb5066a72&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217811","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\/217811"}],"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=217811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217813,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217811\/revisions\/217813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}