Carnegie Mellon University announced on Wednesday that Ken Griffin, a hedge fund chief executive, had made a generous donation of three billion dollars, the overwhelming majority of which will be channelled into establishing a new campus in Miami, with a focus on tackling a range of societal challenges.
卡內基梅隆大學於週三宣布,對沖基金執行長肯·格里芬慨捐三十億美元,其中絕大部分資金將挹注於在邁阿密闢建一座新校區,聚焦應對各項社會挑戰。
This private research university, situated in Pittsburgh, has proclaimed that this constitutes the largest single donation ever received in the history of American higher education.
這所坐落於匹茲堡的私立研究型學府宣稱,此乃美國高等教育史上所獲最大之單筆捐贈。
Other instances of donations exceeding one billion dollars include the 1.8 billion dollars that former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg donated to Johns Hopkins University in 2018.
其他逾10億美元的捐贈案例,尚包括2018年前紐約市長麥可·彭博向約翰霍普金斯大學所捐贈之18億美元。
Nike co-founder Phil Knight, together with his wife Penny, likewise ranks among prolific donors, their philanthropic record encompassing a 2 billion dollar donation to Oregon Health & Science University in 2025.
耐吉聯合創辦人菲爾·奈特偕其妻佩妮亦屬多產的捐贈者之列,其捐贈事蹟包括2025年向俄勒岡健康與科學大學所捐贈之20億美元。
Griffin's donation amounts to 2 billion dollars, allocated to establishing a new 35-acre campus in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood, just north of downtown.
格里芬的捐贈涵蓋20億美元,用以在邁阿密溫伍德社區、市中心以北闢建一座佔地35英畝之新校區。
The campus is expected to accommodate approximately 3,500 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students.
該校區預計將收容約3,500名本科生、碩士生及博士生。
Construction is scheduled to commence next year.
工程定於明年動工。
The campus is not organized according to academic disciplines; rather, it is structured around what the university and Griffin, in their press release, term "grand challenge areas" — such domains as human health and biological discovery; national security and strategic capabilities; energy and climate resilience; and advanced manufacturing and industrial transformation.
該校區之劃分並非依學術專業為之,而是聚焦於大學與格里芬於新聞稿中所稱之「重大挑戰領域」,諸如人類健康與生物發現;國家安全與戰略能力;能源與氣候韌性;以及先進製造與工業轉型。
In a press release, Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian lavished praise on Griffin, remarking: "Throughout our institution's history, CMU has consistently discerned the earliest stirrings of transformative technological change and responded with novel modes of thinking and problem-solving.
卡內基梅隆大學校長法納姆·賈哈尼安於新聞稿中盛讚格里芬,其言曰:「縱觀吾校歷史,CMU素來洞燭技術劇變之先機,並以嶄新思維與解難之道應之。
Artificial intelligence may well be the most defining intellectual development of our era, impelling us to reconsider how we educate, how we conduct scholarship, and how we collaborate with others."
人工智慧堪稱吾輩時代最具界定性之知識進展,其敦促吾人重新審思如何育才、治學,以及與他人協作。」
Universities are under mounting pressure to equip students to navigate a labour market that is being rapidly reshaped by artificial intelligence.
各大學正面臨日益沉重的壓力,亟須使學生得以從容應對一個正遭人工智慧急遽重塑的勞動力市場。
Job postings that mention artificial intelligence or machine learning in their titles or skill requirements are proliferating at an explosive rate.
舉凡職缺標題或技能要求中涵涉人工智慧與機器學習之職位公告,其數量正呈井噴式激增。
At the same time, the financial pressures bearing down on higher education are mounting relentlessly.
與此同時,高等教育所承受的財務壓力亦與日俱增。
International enrollments are in steady decline, while, concurrently, demographic shifts in the United States have caused high school graduating classes in numerous states to begin shrinking.
國際招生人數持續下滑,而與此同時,受美國人口結構變遷所累,諸多州份的高中畢業生人數已開始遞減。
What is more, costs associated with fuel, healthcare, and technology are likewise climbing steadily.
不僅如此,燃料、醫療保健及技術等相關成本亦正節節攀升。
The area is already home to the University of Miami (a private research institution), Florida International University (a public research institution), and Miami Dade College (which originated as a community college but also confers a number of four-year degrees).
該地區已然坐擁邁阿密大學(一所私立研究型學府)、佛羅里達國際大學(一所公立研究型學府)以及邁阿密戴德學院(其濫觴為社區學院,然亦授予若干四年制學位)。
Together, these three institutions enroll approximately 135,000 students.
此三所院校之註冊人數合計約達135,000之譜。
In addition, the area is dotted with several smaller private colleges.
此外,該地區尚林立著數所規模較小的私立學院。
Its computer science department launched an initiative aimed at imparting knowledge of artificial intelligence to middle and high school students in Florida and several other states.
其電腦科學系啟動了一項計劃,旨在向佛羅里達州及其他數州的中學生傳授人工智慧知識。
The university also took part in a collaboration with the Gates Foundation to supply AI-driven course materials for introductory mathematics courses at Miami Dade College.
該大學亦參與了與蓋茲基金會的合作,為邁阿密戴德學院的入門數學課程提供人工智慧驅動的課程材料。