UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla ('80): "Computer Science Should be Compulsory for Everyone"
News18 (July 8, 2022)
Computer Science Should be Compulsory for Everyone: University of California Chancellor
At UCSD you can take any major – English, literature, social sciences but you cannot graduate without a course in physics, mathematics, and computing, said IIT Kharagpur alumnus and chancellor of UCSD.
“Liberal arts should have broad-based education and computer science should be part of it and vice-versa. Computer science should be compulsory for everyone. Without it, there is hardly anything you can do which can support the economy,” says Pardeep K Khosla, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego who was in Mohali to sign an MoU with Plaksha University.
Khosla is the eighth Chancellor of UCSD, an alumnus of the IIT Kharagpur who shifted to the US in 1982. He was appointed the Chancellor of UCSD in 2012. He was also appointed to the Board of Governors of the Academy for Research and Innovation in India by Prime Minister Narendra Mosi in 2020.
“At UCSD you can take any major – English, literature, social sciences but you cannot graduate without a course in physics, mathematics, and computing, said Khosla.
Born in Amritsar, Khosla was here after a long time. He said, “When I went abroad, nobody who looked like me or talked like me with an accent was in such a position. I am the first Indian-origin chancellor of a top-ranked institution there. It was not an easy road but an accidental walk which worked to my benefit.” In 2012, he was named one of the 50 most influential Indian-Americans by Silicon India. (Read More)