{"id":218940,"date":"2026-05-22T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/silicon-valley-to-get-its-first-two-year-degree-focused-on-ai-the-mercury-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:15:13","slug":"silicon-valley-to-get-its-first-two-year-degree-focused-on-ai-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/silicon-valley-to-get-its-first-two-year-degree-focused-on-ai-the-mercury-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley to get its first two-year degree focused on AI \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/22\/silicon-valley-to-get-its-first-two-year-degree-focused-on-ai\/\">Silicon Valley to get its first two-year degree focused on AI \u2013 The Mercury News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/22\/silicon-valley-to-get-its-first-two-year-degree-focused-on-ai\/\">https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/22\/silicon-valley-to-get-its-first-two-year-degree-focused-on-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 19:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.mercurynews.com\">www.mercurynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>De Anza College introduces a new Associate in Science degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence and six AI-focused credentials this fall.<\/li>\n<li>There is a significant increase in AI programs, with the number of undergraduate programs more than doubling from 90 to 193 in one year.<\/li>\n<li>The rapid expansion reflects a nationwide trend as institutions aim to prepare students for an AI-driven economy.<\/li>\n<li>The new degree courses emphasize responsible AI development and ethical practice, and the curriculum includes transferrable courses to UC and CSU schools.<\/li>\n<li>The programs are designed to align with core competencies like information literacy, personal responsibility, and critical thinking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley to get its first two-year degree focused on AI \u2013 The Mercury News&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SJM-L-DEANZA-01.jpg?w=1024&h=730","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-218940","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\/218940"}],"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=218940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218942,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218940\/revisions\/218942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}