The Environmental Scan, made filterable
Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 3 entries, 28 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 9 source-verified findings (5 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.
Inland Empire / Desert
filter to regionEngaged People
- 🆕Director Donnell Layne named to CCCCO 2025 AI Fellows Cohort. Donnell Layne, Director of MVC's STEM/iMAKE Innovation Center & Makerspace, is listed in the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) 2025 AI Fellows Cohort, a statewide group described as 'shaping the future of AI implementation across California's 116 community colleges.' 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Diversity Summit session on AI to support neurodivergent students. MVC's 10th Annual Diversity Summit (April 9-10, 2026) included a virtual second-day session on emerging approaches to teaching and learning, 'including the use of artificial intelligence to support neurodivergent students and enhance instructional practices.' 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Library 'Think Free @ MVC' AI + OER workshops. MVC's library (Think Free @ MVC / ZTC program) hosted faculty workshops on AI and open educational resources: 'Artificial Intelligence and OER: Shaping the Future of Learning' (March 7, 2025) and 'Artificial Intelligence at the OER Table: How Much is Too Much?' (Sept 19, 2025). 2025 · high confidence — source
PeoplePolicyResources
Team/Lead: Moreno Valley College/Senate/Career Services/Library Faculty and Staff
- Per survey:
- Academic Senate
- CTE Employment Placement utilizes AI
- May 2024
- AI Faculty Guide Syllabus Statement Language “This document is a slight adaptation of the faculty guide drafted by Norco College’s Teaching and Learning Committee's Artificial Intelligence Workgroup in late 2023, which itself draws from an earlier set of policies and best practices developed at Mt. San Antonio College. It was approved by the MVC Academic Senate 5.13.24.”
- Sept 2024 Senate has drafted an AI policy, in consultation with sister colleges
- Per sister college RCC’s Academic Senate: “President Scott-Coe: The Norco draft of an AI framework (with notes from colleagues at Moreno Valley College) was shared at District Academic Senate. It is comprehensive as well as flexible, with the goal to create more cohesion across the three colleges/district. Discussion ensued about how to review the new document. Senate agreed to review the Norco/MVC framework draft alongside TLLC’s materials in Fall.”
- Library faculty and Staff Library Guides
- AI, ChatGPT, and Beyond
- Citing Sources
4 linked resource(s) — show status
Policies
- 'AI for Educators' guide with academic-integrity and assignment-design resources. The library guide's 'AI for Educators' tab curates resources on updating academic integrity policy in the age of AI, redesigning assignments for the ChatGPT era, open ChatGPT classroom policies, and OpenAI's educator considerations. These are curated external resources rather than an adopted MVC institutional policy. 2026 · high confidence — source
PolicyPeopleResources
Team/Lead: Moreno Valley College
- Not yet found. Appears to rely on Student Conduct Standards: academic honesty
- Academic senate appointed a task force after first approaching standing senate committees related to teaching.
- The task force relied on existing guidance from district and other cc’s; the members weren’t Anti-AI; the guidance was shared at and approved by senate; then shared dept wide by depts interested
- AI Faculty Guide Syllabus Statement Language
- This document is a slight adaptation of the faculty guide drafted by Norco College’s Teaching and Learning Committee's Artificial Intelligence Workgroup in late 2023, which itself draws from an earlier set of policies and best practices developed at Mt. San Antonio College. It was approved by the MVC Academic Senate 5.13.24.
- Per sister college RCC’s Academic Senate: “President Scott-Coe: The Norco draft of an AI framework (with notes from colleagues at Moreno Valley College) was shared at District Academic Senate. It is comprehensive as well as flexible, with the goal to create more cohesion across the three colleges/district. Discussion ensued about how to review the new document. Senate agreed to review the Norco/MVC framework draft alongside TLLC’s materials in Fall.”
- Honor’s courses require AI Policy: “All honors faculty are expected to include in their honors syllabi and contract proposals clear statements on appropriate student use of AI.”
3 linked resource(s) — show status
Resources
- 🆕Middle College cohort introduced to AI via iMAKE Innovation Center. An eight-week Experiential Technology and Engineering cohort run through MVC's iMAKE Innovation Center introduced 68 Middle College students (Fall 2025) to artificial intelligence using Micro:bit microcontrollers and app development on the PlayLab platform incorporating 'simple AI-influenced behaviors'; program design overseen by director Donnell Layne. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Library guide on using AI tools in OER creation. MVC's 'Using AI Tools' LibGuide (within Creating OERs in LibreTexts) advises faculty on AI use for open-resource development, profiling Goblin.Tools, Teaching.Tools, Perplexity.ai, ChatPDF, and Bing Chat, and cautioning that AI should supplement not replace human creation and that licensing terms affect open status. Last updated June 8, 2026. 2026 · high confidence — source
- Library research guide 'AI, ChatGPT, and Beyond' (actively maintained). MVC's library hosts a comprehensive AI LibGuide for faculty, staff, and students covering generative AI basics, text/image platforms (ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude; DALL-E3, Firefly, Midjourney), citation of AI, AI detectors, prompt engineering, and verifying AI responses. Last updated April 20, 2026. 2026 · high confidence — source
- MVC AI Faculty Guide linked from Faculty Resources page. MVC's official Faculty Resources page (Instructional Resources) lists an 'Artificial Intelligence Faculty Guide' to support faculty integrating AI into teaching, hosted as a 'MVC AI Faculty Guide.pdf' on Google Drive. The document's full text is behind a Google sign-in and could not be read. undated · medium confidence — source
- Data Science / Data Analytics programs (analytics focus, ML elective via DS@RCCD). MVC offers an A.S. in Data Science (40 units) and a Data Analytics Certificate (33 units) covering statistics, SQL, and applied predictive analytics; the MVC program page lists no dedicated AI/ML courses, though the district-wide DS@RCCD/UC Riverside DS-PATH materials list an 'Introduction to Machine Learning' elective. undated · medium confidence — source
ResourcesPeople
Team/Lead: Moreno Valley College
- PD
- Faculty Guide
- AI Faculty Guide
- This document is a slight adaptation of the faculty guide drafted by Norco College’s Teaching and
- Learning Committee's Artificial Intelligence Workgroup in late 2023, which itself draws from an earlier
- set of policies and best practices developed at Mt. San Antonio College. It was approved by the MVC
- Academic Senate 5.13.24.
- Library faculty and Staff Library Guides
- AI, ChatGPT, and Beyond
- Citing Sources
- Courses