{"id":211992,"date":"2026-02-10T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/cortland-partners-in-new-ai-initiative\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:45:09","slug":"cortland-partners-in-new-ai-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/cortland-partners-in-new-ai-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortland partners in new AI initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.cortland.edu\/news\/cortland-partners-in-new-ai-initiative\">Cortland partners in new AI initiative<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.cortland.edu\/news\/cortland-partners-in-new-ai-initiative\">https:\/\/www2.cortland.edu\/news\/cortland-partners-in-new-ai-initiative<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-10 11:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www2.cortland.edu\">www2.cortland.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>02\/10\/2026<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">New opportunities are coming to SUNY Cortland thanks to the university\u2019s partnership in a statewide Advancing AI for the Public Good Initiative.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"335559738\":240,\"335559739\":240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cortland will work with lead institution Binghamton University and SUNY Broome, SUNY Delhi, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Oneonta and Tompkins Cortland Community College to find the best ethical and effective uses for the growing artificial intelligence field within academics and research.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"335559739\":240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Part of New York\u2019s <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Empire AI<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> program, the initiative will introduce students to more information on the topic, including workforce applications and ethical considerations, and allow the partnered schools to work together and create a free noncredit AI Prep for Careers microcredential. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"335559739\":240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The microcredential will be developed this spring and is expected to be ready for students by the fall semester.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"335559739\":240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Chris Badurek, chair of the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Geography Departmen<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">t and co-coordinator of the university\u2019s <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Computer Applications Program<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (CAP), was approached by colleagues at Binghamton to bring Cortland into the group. He described the new initiative as a great opportunity for students in CAP, an interdisciplinary minor designed to provide computing skills. The curriculum will see updates through the partnership\u2019s new resources.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"335559738\":240,\"335559739\":240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cOne of the required courses in the minor used to be called CAP 104: Computers in Society, but we\u2019re changing the name and the thrust of that course to AI, Technology and Society,\u201d said Badurek, who also co-directs the SUNY Cortland <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Regional Geographic Information Systems Laboratory<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. \u201cThe emphasis is going to be more aligned with the curricular conversations that are part of the AI for Public Good Initiative. We\u2019re having that going on right now and it\u2019s an immediate campus impact.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"335559738\":240,\"335559739\":240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The prop<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">er use of AI is one of the most relevant, in-demand technical skills across a&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.cortland.edu\/news\/cortland-partners-in-new-ai-initiative\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cortland partners in new AI initiative https:\/\/www2.cortland.edu\/news\/cortland-partners-in-new-ai-initiative Publish Date: 2026-02-10 11:29:00 Source Domain: www2.cortland.edu 02\/10\/2026&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www2.cortland.edu\/dA\/af428654b6\/Badurek-Teaching.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211994,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211992\/revisions\/211994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}