Faculty members from 20 colleges and universities in Southwestern Pennsylvania attended the Future Readiness Workshop at Penn State New Kensington at the end of January 2024. Attendees learned about the challenges and opportunities provided by artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to higher education. The effort was led by Penn State New Kensington and is a project of the Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative (SWPANEC), one of 21 federal Build Back Better Regional Challenge (BBBRC) grant awardees.
The event was a follow-up to last fall’s “Education Vanguard: Building the Education of the Future Together" Conference that was also led by the New Kensington campus and held in October 2023 as part of the SWPANEC. It was also the first of a series of events to happen in 2024, which will also include: the Faculty Future Readiness Academy (May 15-17), a second Future Readiness Workshop (Aug. 9) and the second-annual Education Vanguard Conference November 14-16.
