{"id":85201,"date":"2026-06-25T01:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/85201\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T01:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:43:13","slug":"uh-expands-access-to-free-ai-and-career-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/85201\/","title":{"rendered":"UH expands access to free AI and career training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading time:   &lt; 1 minute<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/system-ai-computer-image.jpeg\" alt=\"AI concept. Businessman using computer use ai to help business and used in daily life, Digital Transformation, Internet of Things, Artificial intelligence brain\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-231345\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of Hawai\u02bbi has secured additional licenses to keep up with employee demand for free courses on artificial intelligence (AI). Faculty, staff and students across the UH system are building AI literacy and in-demand workforce skills through the National Association of Higher Education Systems (NASH)-Google Community of Practice. The initiative connects 75 campuses nationwide, offering free, self-paced online courses via Coursera.<\/p>\n<p>The available curriculum includes two AI Essentials courses and nine Grow with Google Career Certificate courses, such as UX Design, Digital Marketing &amp; E-commerce, and Cybersecurity. Participants earn digital badges upon completion, which can be displayed on r\u00e9sum\u00e9s and professional profiles. These micro-credentials are backed by the American Council on Education and demonstrate proficiency in skills identified as in-demand by more than 1,500 employers.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, UH secured renewable licenses for 3,500 simultaneous enrollments. Since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/24\/free-ai-and-career-skills-training\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announcement in April<\/a>, more than 4,800 UH community members have enrolled in courses. So far, more than 1,300 have completed one of these courses. To meet this ongoing interest, UH has expanded capacity, making 5,000 licenses available for AI Essentials and 7,500 for Google Career Certificate courses through December 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI is reshaping every industry, and our goal is to ensure the UH community is ahead of the curve,\u201d said Gloria Niles, chief academic technology innovation officer. \u201cExpanding our partnership with NASH and Google allows us to remove barriers to professional development, giving our students, staff and faculty the tools they need to innovate in their current roles and thrive in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This initiative is part of UH\u2019s broader commitment to workforce development as outlined in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/strategic-plan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UH System\u2019s Strategic Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading time: &lt; 1 minute The University of Hawai\u02bbi has secured additional licenses to keep up with employee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,45805,560,45811,25,45807,45803,45804,313,45808,826,5329,132,45806,2683,32580,32579,32578,45810,45802,45801,40200,1684,45809,45812,14687,228,227,30028,2435,45800],"class_list":["post-85201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-ai-essentials","tag-ai-literacy","tag-american-council-on-education","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-career-certificate","tag-community-of-practice","tag-coursera","tag-cybersecurity","tag-digital-badges","tag-digital-marketing","tag-e-commerce","tag-google","tag-grow-with-google","tag-hawaii","tag-hawaii-college","tag-hawaii-higher-education","tag-hawaii-university","tag-micro-credentials","tag-nash","tag-national-association-of-system-heads","tag-online-courses","tag-professional-development","tag-professional-profiles","tag-strategic-plan","tag-uh","tag-uh-system","tag-university-of-hawaii","tag-ux-design","tag-workforce-development","tag-workforce-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}