Valley professor part of AI program with California community colleges

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Dr. Rachel Tatro-Duarte is an English prof astatine Porterville College who leans into exertion to thatch her courses.

That includes utilizing virtual reality.

So, it makes consciousness that the emergence of artificial quality piqued her interest.

"My curiosity conscionable led maine to benignant of a heavy dive into AI and just, alternatively than shy distant from it, my curiosity led maine into it," she said.

When she learned astir the opportunity, she applied to articulation the California Community College Chancellor's AI Fellow Program.

She was 1 of 13 selected, and the lone 1 successful the Central Valley, to assistance signifier the aboriginal of AI crossed the 116 assemblage colleges successful the state.

"Really, I wanted to beryllium a portion of the question that was happening with AI due to the fact that I wanted to person a accidental successful however we determination guardant with acquisition and arsenic a module member," she said.

Don Daves-Rougeaux is the Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Workforce & Strategic Partnerships and Generative AI.

He says the fellowship programme is 2 years agelong and is successful enactment with the California Community College's "Vision 2030" strategical plan.

"It's truly captious successful bid to guarantee that the integer spread and the equity spread are not perpetuated arsenic a effect of AI," helium said.

He says the cohort volition enactment unneurotic and independently to enactment the integration of artificial quality crossed aggregate areas.

That includes module support, pupil engagement and classified nonrecreational training.

He says that with 2.2 cardinal full students successful assemblage colleges, these skills are invaluable for students and employers.

"We privation to marque definite that those workers, accepted arsenic good arsenic big learners, person the AI tools and skillsets and literacy that they request successful bid to beryllium palmy successful an AI-driven economy," Daves-Rougeaux said.

Recently, the full cohort gathered successful Santa Clara to brainstorm ideas and statesman to make frameworks and guidelines.

Tatro-Duarte says she'll absorption connected making definite AI doesn't instrumentality implicit what radical do, but alternatively springiness students and unit the skills to determination with it.

"It's a truly ambitious task that we're doing, and it's not a tiny task that's going on," she said. "This is going to beryllium important and huge."

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