The Environmental Scan, made filterable
Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 3 entries, 14 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 6 source-verified findings (3 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.
Bay Area
filter to regionEngaged People
- 🆕District-wide AI Taskforce spanning all three 4CD colleges. At the ASCCC 2025 Academic Academy (Feb 21, 2025), CCC faculty member Andrew Kuo and CCCCD's Emma Rogers (with three Diablo Valley College faculty) presented 'Leadership, Policy Development, and Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Age of AI,' describing an AI Taskforce spanning the three Contra Costa CCD colleges that created district AI policy within a year and set the stage for a district commitment to AI Critical Literacy training. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕CCC faculty presented AI policy/PD session at ASCCC Academic Academy. A CCC instructor (Andrew Kuo) co-presented a statewide ASCCC session (Feb 2025) on AI policy development and culturally responsive teaching, indicating CCC faculty participation in regional AI professional development and policy work. 2025 · high confidence — source
PeoplePolicyResources
Team/Lead: CCC Academic Senate, AI Working Group/Professor Randy Carver and Dea Chao Liu
- Sept 2024 developed a faculty survey on AI training needs with Professor : Joseph (Randy) Carver (Speech/Comms) and then AI working group.pdf)
- Oct 2024 Senate Member Professor Chao Liu (Engineering) joined AI working group
- Nov 2024 Discussion of College or District Wide AI Policy
- Nov 2024 Taskforce to develop student AI need survey
Policies
- No campuswide AI ban; instructors set syllabus policy. Per the CCC Library guide: 'Currently there is no campuswide policy prohibiting the use of AI tools for coursework, although instructors are allowed to set their own policies in the class syllabus.' Students are advised to check with each instructor. 2026 · high confidence — source
PolicyResources
Team/Lead: 4CD/CCC
- Not found yet. Senate reviewing above-linked district policy.
- Neat link to CCC Library AI resources on site, including MASSIVE crowdsourced collection of Syllabi Policies for AI Generative Tools by discipline
Resources
- 🆕4CD 2025-2030 Strategic Plan includes AI integration goal. The Contra Costa Community College District (which includes CCC) adopted a 2025-2030 Strategic Plan on June 11, 2025; Goal 3 commits to 'Assess opportunities to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into institutional practices, administrative workflows, and student support services to increase efficiency, improve responsiveness, and predict student needs.' This is a district-level commitment applying across all three colleges rather than a CCC-specific plan. 2025 · medium confidence — source
- Library 'AI in Education' guide (For Faculty). The CCC Library maintains a faculty-facing AI in Education guide covering AI detection tools (GPTZero, OpenAI AI Classifier), guidance on creating AI-resistant assignments, syllabus policy compilations (e.g. the 'Syllabi Policies for AI Generative Tools' Google doc, Purdue guidelines), and external teaching-center resources (Yale, NIU, Ohio State). 2026 · high confidence — source
- Library 'AI in Education' guide (For Students). The CCC Library student-facing AI guide lists generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Perplexity, NotebookLM, DALL-E 2) and provides MLA/APA guidance for citing generative AI; the guide as a whole was last updated May 20, 2026. 2026 · high confidence — source
ResourcesPeopleSystems
Team/Lead: 4CD/CCC/Librarians
- What is AI? With neat links to college-created resources
- Ellen Carey, AI (Artificial Intelligence) in Education at Santa Barbara Community College
- Saskia Kusnecov, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resource Guide at Babson College
- Alison Gurganus, Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom at San Diego Mesa College
- AI for Students
- AI for Faculty, including links to some neat resources
- ESL Meets AI: How We Can Make Our Lives Easier with ChatGPT authored byESL instructors from MiraCosta College
- Contra Costa College had participating representation in PlayLab in November Inaugural cohort with UC Berkeley