NAAIC in the News

Colleges and universities are under acute pressure to prove their value in the form of graduate outcomes. NAAIC is mentioned as an example of preparing college for applied AI pathways that provide jobs to students.

On the episode of The Ongoing Transformation from Issues in Science & Technology, NAAIC Founder Antonio Delgado Fornaguera joins host Sara Frueh to talk about why that bet is paying off.

AI is transforming job requirements, with AI skills becoming essential across multiple sectors of the economy. A proposed solution involves publicly-funded, AI-enabled skills training programs.

Through IBM work with the National Applied AI Consortium, we've seen how helping faculty build their own AI fluency can give them more confidence bringing applied AI learning into the classroom.

Community colleges are crucial for preparing Americans for the AI era but face severe underfunding and outdated infrastructure. NAAIC demonstrates a successful model.

The National Applied AI Consortium joined the AI Workforce Consortium as advisors, and contribute to their new report about the impact of AI in cybersecurity. The findings highlight the growing impact of AI on cybersecurity jobs.

Community colleges are crucial for building an inclusive, AI-ready global workforce. US initiatives like NAAIC show how public-private partnerships keep AI training current and scaled. Governments should fund these adaptive institutions.

The report presents a new model for how community colleges can continuously adapt to changing workforce and learner needs through better use of data, technology, and institutional decision-making. NAAIC is mentioned as a resource in AI education.

As AI reshapes the labor market, community colleges, with NAAIC support, are a practical engine for training workers at scale to develop the skills and fluency they need to get jobs

NAAIC receives grant from the National Science Foundation to expand its work to high schools.