{"id":220628,"date":"2026-05-26T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/school-of-technology-offering-artificial-intelligence-minor-in-fall-the-daily-eastern-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:05:10","slug":"school-of-technology-offering-artificial-intelligence-minor-in-fall-the-daily-eastern-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/school-of-technology-offering-artificial-intelligence-minor-in-fall-the-daily-eastern-news\/","title":{"rendered":"School of technology offering artificial intelligence minor in fall \u2013 The Daily Eastern News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyeasternnews.com\/2026\/05\/26\/school-of-technology-offering-artificial-intelligence-minor-in-fall\/\">School of technology offering artificial intelligence minor in fall \u2013 The Daily Eastern News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyeasternnews.com\/2026\/05\/26\/school-of-technology-offering-artificial-intelligence-minor-in-fall\/\">https:\/\/www.dailyeasternnews.com\/2026\/05\/26\/school-of-technology-offering-artificial-intelligence-minor-in-fall\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 19:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.dailyeasternnews.com\">www.dailyeasternnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eastern has approved an artificial intelligence minor starting in the fall, proposed by Interim Assistant Chair of the School of Technology Toqeer Israr.<\/li>\n<li>The minor was introduced to the university on Dec. 8, 2025, and approved on Feb. 26, 2026.<\/li>\n<li>The AI minor will consist of 18 credit hours with most courses already offered; only a new course titled AI Technologies has been developed.<\/li>\n<li>Ammar Bhutta, professor in the School of Technology, will teach the new AI course, which includes hands-on creation of an AI chatbot focused on a specific area of knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>The AI minor aims to integrate AI skills across various majors, including ethics and environmental impacts of AI.<\/li>\n<li>While Israr anticipates positive initial feedback, some students, like former Student Government Vice President Emilee Boyd, express skepticism about the minor&#8217;s execution and impact on the environment.<\/li>\n<li>The program will limit AI use in coursework to ensure responsible use and discourage plagiarism, though Bhutta suggests a graduate certificate in AI could be introduced in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of technology offering artificial intelligence minor in fall \u2013 The Daily Eastern News https:\/\/www.dailyeasternnews.com\/2026\/05\/26\/school-of-technology-offering-artificial-intelligence-minor-in-fall\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dailyeasternnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Graphic-1-Gary.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-220628","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\/220628"}],"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=220628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220630,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220628\/revisions\/220630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}