Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin, who leads the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sees opening a new College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence as the right move to support in-demand majors and says funding the school won’t come at the expense of other areas of the university.
Last week, the Board of Regents approved a proposal to form the new college — the first time UW-Madison has created a new academic division since 1983, when it opened the School of Veterinary Medicine.
Campus leaders say the move is in response to growing enrollment in computer science and related majors, which are currently housed in the College of Letters and Science alongside the humanities, life sciences and social sciences. The new college focused on AI will be housed in Morgridge Hall, a $267-million facility that opened in August…