Tallahassee State currently has 13,000 students, with enrollment increasing every semester over the past nine semesters. TSC President Jim Mardo said he thinks it is because the school offers so many career options, including new degrees focused on artificial intelligence.
Mulder says he believes that learning AI will help students develop the way entrepreneurs' mindset and skills in their future workplaces.
“I don't think AI will replace people in the workforce,” he said. “But I believe that people who know AI may replace people who don't know AI in the workforce. That has so many possibilities.”
Maldau says he's not too worried about the possibility of using AI to use cheats.
“Ethics is concern, there is concern on the part of faculty about fraud. There is a lot of things that need to be addressed with AI,” he said. “I have a very practical approach to this whole thing. I mean, AI is here. It's not going anywhere, it's not gone. And what I asked people to do is accept AI.”
He says that not everyone in the workforce needs to memorize everything they've been taught.
“Life is an open book test,” he said. “And if we're trying to prepare people for life, if we're trying to prepare people for the rest of our lives, then most of the people who prepare us to enter the workforce need to understand how to find information and analyze them critically, not how to remember it from above their heads.”
Murdauh says TSC will also work with employers to experiment with AI and learn from it. And the school works with students to ensure that they are tech-savvy by the time they leave.
