{"id":271465,"date":"2026-06-12T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship-vcu-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:01:10","slug":"garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship-vcu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship-vcu-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Garret Westlake selected for Google AI faculty fellowship &#8211; VCU News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vcu.edu\/article\/garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship\">Garret Westlake selected for Google AI faculty fellowship &#8211; VCU News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vcu.edu\/article\/garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship\">https:\/\/news.vcu.edu\/article\/garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 12:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.vcu.edu\">news.vcu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n    By David Slipher<br \/>L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs\n<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0fellowship\u00a0supports university faculty using artificial intelligence in teaching, research and institutional innovation. Fellows join a global network of academic leaders, gain opportunities to share expertise and collaborate with peers to advance responsible AI adoption and improve student success in higher education. The program culminates in an in-person meeting at Google\u2019s headquarters in Mountain View, California, where fellows present their final projects to industry and technology leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Westlake, a professor of management and entrepreneurship in the VCU School of Business, is motivated by business and design approaches that help individuals better understand how to use AI critically, creatively and ethically, without losing the human elements of teaching and learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVCU\u2019s commitment to interdisciplinary innovation and collaboration makes us a great fit for this type of fellowship program offered by Google,\u201d Westlake said. \u201cThe ability to model public-private partnership and applied learning is consistent with many of VCU\u2019s strengths as an institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Westlake\u2019s work has advanced pedagogical, technological, design and policy innovations across VCU. As leader of the\u00a0Office of Innovation and Strategic Design, he helps academic units develop programs with a design-thinking and entrepreneurial mindset, supports cross-disciplinary collaborations and consults on innovation strategy, idea generation and business plan development.<\/p>\n<p>An early adopter of AI, Westlake is a board member for\u00a0AI Ready RVA\u00a0and has been integrating AI in sponsored projects with industry, in the classroom and through VCU\u2019s participation with the University Innovation Alliance. He is currently exploring how future versions of Google\u2019s\u00a0Career Dreamer\u00a0can improve student success by building career pathways that start as early as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vcu.edu\/article\/garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garret Westlake selected for Google AI faculty fellowship &#8211; VCU News https:\/\/news.vcu.edu\/article\/garret-westlake-selected-for-google-ai-faculty-fellowship Publish Date: 2026-06-12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.vcu.edu\/image\/2860cb34-d04a-4546-b8f2-0ba67a86fb73","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271465","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\/271465"}],"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=271465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271467,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271465\/revisions\/271467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}