{"id":237577,"date":"2026-06-26T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/u-of-i-expands-ai-legacy-with-new-degree-programs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:00:43","slug":"u-of-i-expands-ai-legacy-with-new-degree-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/u-of-i-expands-ai-legacy-with-new-degree-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"U of I expands AI legacy with new degree programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uidaho.edu\/newsroom\/ai-degrees\">U of I expands AI legacy with new degree programs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uidaho.edu\/newsroom\/ai-degrees\">https:\/\/www.uidaho.edu\/newsroom\/ai-degrees<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-26 04:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.uidaho.edu\">www.uidaho.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University of Idaho is launching three new AI degree programs starting Fall 2026, including bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s of science, and master\u2019s of engineering, accessible at Moscow, Coeur d\u2019Alene, and fully online.<\/li>\n<li>These programs combine classroom instruction with hands-on research and industry partnerships to equip students with skills in AI system building and real-world problem-solving.<\/li>\n<li>The new programs capitalize on nearly 40 years of foundational AI education, starting from the first AI course introduced in 1986.<\/li>\n<li>Employment opportunities in AI are projected to grow by 25.5% in the Mountain West region by 2034, and industry partnerships are central to the program\u2019s curriculum.<\/li>\n<li>The university has a track record of AI-related research and innovation, partnering with organizations like Washington University School of Medicine and Amalgamated Sugar to address complex industrial challenges through advanced machine learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U of I expands AI legacy with new degree programs https:\/\/www.uidaho.edu\/newsroom\/ai-degrees Publish Date: 2026-06-26 04:55:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/content-hub.uidaho.edu\/api\/public\/content\/162aac0ec42641ff8a4a5477184ea16c?v=c59e0a10","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237577","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\/237577"}],"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=237577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237579,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237577\/revisions\/237579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}