{"id":228445,"date":"2026-06-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/saif-khairat-named-unc-vice-provost-and-chief-ai-officer\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:15:12","slug":"saif-khairat-named-unc-vice-provost-and-chief-ai-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/saif-khairat-named-unc-vice-provost-and-chief-ai-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Saif Khairat named UNC vice provost and chief AI officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/education\/article316044762.html\">Saif Khairat named UNC vice provost and chief AI officer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/education\/article316044762.html\">https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/education\/article316044762.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-09 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newsobserver.com\">www.newsobserver.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>New AI Leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill<\/strong>: UNC-Chapel Hill appointed Saif Khairat as its new chief artificial intelligence officer and vice provost for AI. Khairat, currently a professor in the nursing school, focuses on digital health and AI, advising the World Health Organization. He aims to integrate AI responsibly at the university.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Initiatives for Community Engagement<\/strong>: The university launched a two-year study to explore how North Carolinians are interacting with AI, focusing on how local libraries can support AI literacy. This aims to include local communities in conversations around digital literacy and information access.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Sports Facility Discussions at Carolina North<\/strong>: The Carolina North stakeholder advisory committee held its first meeting. While initial plans to move the basketball arena were met with criticism, discussions about potential tennis and basketball courts for student recreation are ongoing. There&#8217;s also interest in adding intercollegiate athletics facilities.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Former ECU Trustee Joins UNC System Board of Governors<\/strong>: Leigh Jeffreys Fanning, an East Carolina University alum and former trustee, was appointed to the UNC System Board of Governors. Fanning previously served as vice president of a beer distribution company.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Higher Ed Headlines<\/strong>: A brief mention of noteworthy higher education headlines for the week mentioned in the newsletter, without specifics.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saif Khairat named UNC vice provost and chief AI officer https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/education\/article316044762.html Publish Date: 2026-06-09 05:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/public\/latest-news\/y4t6s1\/picture294020484\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_1200\/Dean%E2%80%99s%20List%20lead%20image","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-228445","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\/228445"}],"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=228445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228448,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228445\/revisions\/228448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}