Staff
UC San Diego partners with the Digital Education Council to offer the Certificate in AI for Higher Education — a deeper dive into AI across higher education, with a stream built around your role. Many people move here from the TritonAI Discovery Series. Wherever you're starting, the certificate connects the tools you use to the bigger questions shaping AI in higher education globally.
TWO STREAMS
A path suited to your role
The course is organized into two streams, one each for staff and one for leaders.
Leaders
AI in Higher Education Leadership
Support identifying opportunities and challenges for AI adoption.TWO WAYS TO TAKE IT
On your own, or as a learning community.
Once you begin, you'll have 6 months (180 days) to complete the certificate. Each stream includes 20 hours of content: 16 hours of shared, foundational material plus 4 hours of specialization.
Work independently
Move through the course at your own pace, on your own schedule.
Learn together
Set up a learning community with your team or a cross-functional group and meet regularly to move through the course together. Communities can appoint one lead for the whole course, or rotate the lead so a different person heads up each section of chapters. Most learning communities take about three months to complete the course.
GETTING STARTED
Choose your stream
Administration/Staff
Staff stream
Operations, services, and administration.Leaders
Leaders stream
Opportunities and challenges for AI adoption.New to AI? Start with the TritonAI Discovery Series — short videos that build shared ground before you go deeper.
GO FURTHER, TOGETHER
A shared foundation for what's next
However you take it — independently or with a learning community — the certificate gives you a common foundation for the conversations shaping AI at UC San Diego and beyond.