The Environmental Scan, made filterable
Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 5 entries, 8 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 16 source-verified findings (9 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.
Bay Area
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- 🆕Bay Area AI Center of Excellence (BAAICoE) launched at Laney. Laney College was designated the regional AI Center of Excellence and launched the Bay Area AI Center of Excellence (BAAICoE), headquartered in Building F, Room 254, to drive AI workforce development and equitable AI education across the Bay Area's 28 community colleges. An open house launch event was held in late 2025. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕BAAICoE dedicated regional hub and mission. The BAAICoE (baaicoe.org) states its mission to 'drive scalable and sustainable AI workforce development across the Bay Area's 28 community colleges by developing and delivering innovative AI curriculum,' serving as a regional hub for curriculum development, industry partnerships, and a Pre-Incubator/Launch Pad facility for students and faculty. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AI program and Center leadership. Tuan Nguyen serves as Department Chair of Laney's AI Department and leads the AI Futures Hackathon; Alejandria Tomas is Dean of Career & Technical Education and Raya Zion is Employment Services Project Manager, both involved in launching the Center of Excellence. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AI training, startup talks, and industry panels via BAAICoE. The Bay Area AI Center of Excellence runs ongoing professional development and community programming including AI training sessions, monthly startup talks featuring AI professionals (last Friday of each month), industry panels, and AI ethics policy development. 2026 · medium confidence — source
People
- May 2024 Senate President shared AI update from state senate and Laney curriculum
People
Team/Lead: PCCD/Laney
- Not found yet. Per District, College Senates are reviewing and taking differing approaches.
Policies
- Instructor-guided AI/plagiarism guidance. Laney's Distance Education Committee 'AI & Laney College' page advises instructors to set clear plagiarism policies in syllabi, references Peralta conduct policy section A.8 on plagiarism, and notes 'just copying and pasting an answer from AI is considered plagiarism depending on your policies'; the college takes a flexible, instructor-determined approach rather than a single institutional AI mandate. undated · high confidence — source
Policy
Team/Lead: PCCD/Laney
- Per District, College Senates are reviewing and taking differing approaches.
- Policy not yet found.
Resources
- 🆕Applied Generative AI Certificate of Achievement. Laney offers a state-approved Applied Generative AI certificate (~16 units) to prepare GenAI engineers/developers; required courses include CIS 096 (Intro to AI and Machine Learning), AI 030 (Applied GenAI I), AI 032 (Applied GenAI II), AI 006 (Ethics and AI), and MATH 100 (Essential Mathematics for Applied AI). 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing certificates. Laney's state-approved AI curriculum includes Certificates of Achievement in Deep Learning (DL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), in addition to Applied Generative AI; the NLP certificate is shared with the Bay Region under a Regional Joint Venture tied to its Center of Excellence designation. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕BAAICoE coalition partners. The Center of Excellence launch involved partners including the Bay Area Community College Consortium (BACCC), Jobs for the Future (JFF), BAYWORK, UC Berkeley School of Education, Kapor Center, Mission College, the Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce, and the Peralta Colleges Foundation. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AI Futures Hackathon (inaugural 2025 and 2026). Laney hosted its inaugural AI Futures Hackathon June 7-8, 2025, with 29 teams of high school, college, and community participants; first place ($5,000) went to 'Form Fix.' A second AI Futures Hackathon was held May 29-30, 2026, focused on Physical/Autonomous AI Systems and AI in Healthcare, sponsored by Intel. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Equitable AI access mission across 28 community colleges. BAAICoE is 'committed to advancing equitable access to AI education and career pathways' for diverse Bay Area learners across the region's 28 community colleges; Dean of CTE Alejandria Tomas framed the center as 'where access meets opportunity' so students can lead, not just participate, in the AI-driven economy. 2025 · high confidence — source
- AI and Machine Learning course catalog. Laney offers AI/ML courses including CIS 96F / CIS 096 (Introduction to AI and Machine Learning), MATH 100 (Mathematics for AI), AI 006 (Ethics and AI), AI 030/032 (Applied Generative AI I & II), and NLP courses; the program emphasizes hands-on learning in machine learning, NLP, computer vision, and deep learning. 2026 · high confidence — source
- AI program origins and discipline approval. Laney added AI & Data Analytics programs starting Fall 2023, with the first four AI courses receiving state approval in May 2023; the college established AI as a stand-alone discipline. Courses initially included CIS 96F (Intro to AI/ML) and MATH 118 (Foundations in Data Science), with AWS DeepRacer integration. Fall 2023 · high confidence — source
- Industry partners: Intel, AWS, Google. Laney's AI program and Center of Excellence partner with industry leaders including Intel (which sponsors the AI Futures Hackathon and provides OpenVINO/supercomputer prizes), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google to support AI/ML education and career pathways. 2026 · high confidence — source
- Distance Education Committee AI resource page. The Distance Education Committee maintains a curated, 'continuously updated' AI resource page covering how to cite AI-generated content (MLA/APA), sample syllabus plagiarism language, ChatGPT explainer videos and webinars (League for Innovation, peer colleges), and faculty perspectives from higher-ed press. undated · high confidence — source
- Data Science / transfer pathways grant. Laney was awarded $336,000 in grant funding to increase success and transfer pathways in Data Science careers, part of a larger $1.78 million consortium grant to two- and four-year institutions aimed at increasing diversity and transfer rates. 2023 · high confidence — source
- AI information sessions and enrollment support. Laney runs recurring AI program information sessions (in-person and online via Eventbrite/Zoom) offering enrollment support to prospective AI students, with sessions scheduled into mid-2026. 2026 · medium confidence — source
PeopleResources
- Tuan Nguyen (Professor of Computer Information Systems at Laney College).
PeopleResourcesSystems
Team/Lead: Laney /STEM and Library Faculty
- AI and Machine Learning Courses
- Faculty AI Resources
- Laney had participating representation in PlayLab in November Inaugural cohort with UC Berkeley