The Environmental Scan, made filterable
Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 4 entries, 4 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 10 source-verified findings (6 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.
Bay Area
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- 🆕District AI conversation and Senate AI deliberation. Per the Sept 4, 2025 Academic Senate minutes, Professional Development Coordinator Lucia Lachmayr announced a district-wide AI conversation on Sept 17, 2025; senators debated whether AI syllabus policies should be recommended or mandatory and raised ethics, consent, and environmental (water use) concerns, with President Ryan directing divisions to gather faculty input. 2025 · high confidence — source
- SMCCCD AI MiniConference (Leveraging AI). SMCCCD held its first AI/AR/VR MiniConference on Jan 11, 2024 at Skyline College's Environmental Sciences Building (8:30am-2pm) for district faculty and students, with a keynote by Maya Ackerman of Santa Clara University on AI and creative expression. 2024 · high confidence — source
People
Team/Lead: Skyline/History and Distance Ed Coordinator Professor Chris Collins/Professor Andrea Fuentes, Instructional Designer; Academic Support and Learning Technologies — Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL) Skyline/Professor Ricardo Flores Instructional Technologist at Skyline College
PeoplePolicy
Team/Lead: SMCCCD/Skyline/History and Distance Ed Coordinator Professor Chris Collins/Professor Andrea Fuentes, Instructional Designer
Academic Support and Learning Technologies — Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL) Skyline/Professor Ricardo Flores Instructional Technologist at Skyline College
- Colleges have existing academic integrity policies. Work appears to be at District level.
Policies
- 🆕Stoplight AI syllabus framework proposed in Academic Senate. At the Sept 4, 2025 Academic Senate meeting, Professor Simantini (Sima) Karve presented a 'stoplight' AI policy framework (Red = prohibited, Yellow = permitted for specific uses, Green = encouraged) with distributed syllabus language templates; President Ryan stated 'the Senate supports including AI statements in syllabi' but asked divisions to gauge faculty input before mandating. 2025 · high confidence — source
- District Academic Senate Plagiarism and AI Guidance. SMCCCD District Academic Senate (covering Skyline College, College of San Mateo, Canada College) approved 'Plagiarism and Artificial Intelligence Guidance' on Dec 9, 2024 (last updated Jan 8, 2025), stating existing academic integrity policies cover AI when supplemented by course-level syllabus guidance, and warning that automated AI detection tools are 'significantly more unreliable than plagiarism detection tools.' 2025 · high confidence — source
Policy
Team/Lead: SMCCCD/Skyline/Academic Senate
- Per District guidance, Skyline College already [has] academic integrity policies that prohibit the use of unauthorized resources. The use of AI content generators is covered by these academic honesty policies if supplemented by course-level policies that are explained in a course syllabus and/or assignment instructions.
Resources
- 🆕CISA 210 Introduction to Applied Artificial Intelligence. Skyline College's 2025-26 catalog lists CISA 210 'Introduction to Applied Artificial Intelligence' (3 units), a project-based survey of AI history, terminology and applications covering machine learning, neural networks, robotics, computer vision, NLP and algorithm analysis; recommended prep COMP 122 or MATH 211. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Data Science Certificate of Achievement includes AI/ML. The 2025-26 catalog's Data Science Certificate of Achievement (16-19 units; core CIS 122, CIS 132, MATH 211) states students 'will acquire basic data science knowledge, as well as skills such as software development, mathematics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.' 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕CTTL Faculty Repository AI resources with Stoplight framework. Skyline's Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL) faculty LibGuide (last updated May 12, 2026) hosts AI teaching resources including the Stoplight AI framework and sample syllabus language adapted by Jessica Hurless, Sima Karve and Andrea Fuentes, plus pedagogical approaches and prompt-writing guidance, with links to Flex Day professional development. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AI and Critical Information Literacy guide. The Library's Information Literacy Program maintains an 'AI and Critical Information Literacy' guide (last updated Sept 29, 2025) that frames critical information literacy as 'a lens for examining not only the credibility of AI-generated content but also the social, ethical, and power structures behind these technologies,' citing the SMCCCD AI guidance, UNESCO and AAC&U frameworks. 2025 · high confidence — source
- Library Artificial Intelligence research guide. The Skyline College Library maintains an 'Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)' LibGuide (created by librarian Jason De Castro; last updated April 28, 2026) helping students find AI resources, covering generative AI/ChatGPT, databases, and 'Using AI' / 'Try It' sections. 2026 · high confidence — source
- Drop-In Librarian Support: Ethical Use of AI. The Library has offered student drop-in sessions on 'Ethical Use of AI' (e.g., Dec 3, 2024, Library Lab 5-200A, presented by librarians Jessica Silver-Sharp and Chelssee De Barra) providing 'specialized research support about the ways AI can be used for completing your coursework'; the event recurs on the college events calendar. 2024 · high confidence — source
ResourcesSystemsPeople
- College of San Mateo and Skyline College had participating representation in PlayLab in November Inaugural cohort with UC Berkeley