Central College announced that PPI, Inc., formerly known as Precision, Pulley and Idler, will invest $50,000 to support the college in exploring the development of a curriculum around artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and analytics, known as decision science. 

This cross-departmental focus area addresses the changing demands of the workplace, growth of business insights, complex customer interface, and technology changes. The support will enable Central to build out a pilot of an academic platform or portfolio around decision science. This concept will create a network across academic disciplines, knitting data analytics, visual analytics, business, math, computer science, marketing and more to better serve the needs of future employers of Central students.