{"id":229813,"date":"2026-06-10T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/new-jersey-launches-ai-education-initiative-across-18-community-colleges\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T04:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:55:57","slug":"new-jersey-launches-ai-education-initiative-across-18-community-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/new-jersey-launches-ai-education-initiative-across-18-community-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Launches AI Education Initiative Across 18 Community Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wdhafm.com\/2026\/06\/10\/new-jersey-launches-ai-education-initiative-across-18-community-colleges\/\">New Jersey Launches AI Education Initiative Across 18 Community Colleges<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wdhafm.com\/2026\/06\/10\/new-jersey-launches-ai-education-initiative-across-18-community-colleges\/\">https:\/\/wdhafm.com\/2026\/06\/10\/new-jersey-launches-ai-education-initiative-across-18-community-colleges\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-10 20:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wdhafm.com\">wdhafm.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The New Jersey AI Hub and the New Jersey Council of County Colleges launched AI Ready NJ on June 8, aiming to prepare students, teachers, and businesses for an AI-driven economy.<\/li>\n<li>The program, supported by Microsoft TechSpark, involves all 18 community colleges in New Jersey, focusing on teacher training, institutional capability, and practical learning experiences.<\/li>\n<li>A teacher mini-grant program will offer microgrants to up to 100 teachers to explore the integration of AI in their courses, with supervision from the New Jersey Council of County Colleges.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative will pilot the first AI-focused Sprinternships model through Break Through Tech, providing students with short, paid micro-internships to solve real business challenges.<\/li>\n<li>The program emphasizes the role of community colleges in adapting students and workers to technological changes, facilitating skills development and employer collaboration.<\/li>\n<li>Governor Mikie Sherrill highlighted the effort to position New Jersey as a leader in the AI economy through investments in people and institutions.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative builds on previous collaborations, including the state&#8217;s AI and machine learning apprenticeship program.<\/li>\n<li>The New Jersey community colleges, serving 255,000 students, are pivotal in adapting to future technological demands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Launches AI Education Initiative Across 18 Community Colleges https:\/\/wdhafm.com\/2026\/06\/10\/new-jersey-launches-ai-education-initiative-across-18-community-colleges\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-10 20:31:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wdhafm.com\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2237135852.jpg?auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229813","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\/229813"}],"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=229813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229815,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229813\/revisions\/229815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}