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Spring 2025 baseline · June 2026 update

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Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 3 entries, 17 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 3 source-verified findings (0 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.

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Team/Lead: Cabrillo/Senate/AS & VPI Travaris Harris/Librarian Betsy Vaca
  • Spring 2023 AI in Learning Discussion in student-run paper
  • Librarians have created AI in education guides
  • Feb 2024 Senate AI In The Classroom Presentation (Skye Gentile, Nina Kotelyan, Kendall Sooter)
  • Details of AI and the impacts on learning and the student experience.
  • They reviewed various ways that colleges are responding to AI in the classroom.
  • AI policy that can be included in the syllabus, citation requirements for use of AI in assignments, and tools to establish boundaries that ensure academic integrity.
  • District/College Taskforce: AS/VPI Travaris Harris is working with a dedicated taskforce to discuss this topic in detail and will make recommendations to the college about what policies Cabrillo may adopt in the future.
  • Aug 2024 AI impact on learning selected as Senate meeting agenda item
  • Jan 2025 Admin Services Counsel Subcommittee/IT suggested in Feb 2025 to consider adoption of non-instructional AI policy components to match CA CC League Recommendations (Approved AI applications and Data Privacy and Security) AND recommended Instruction (Senate) consider remaining League suggestions
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  • Member of BACCC AIDA (Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics) consortium. Cabrillo College is listed as one of ~10 participating Bay Area colleges in the Bay Area Community College Consortium's AIDA initiative, which provides industry-supported AI/data-analytics curriculum, professional development, and certifications with partners including Intel, AWS, IBM, Google, CompTIA, and Jobs for the Future. undated · high confidencesource
  • Free Summer CyberCamp covering AI and machine learning. Cabrillo College, the Bay Area Cyber League, and the Santa Cruz County Office of Education ran a free week-long Summer CyberCamp (2024) for grades 8-12 and community college students that listed 'Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning' among its key topics, held on the Cabrillo campus. 2024 · high confidencesource
  • AI named as a Computer Science sub-field (no dedicated AI course found). Cabrillo's Computer Science department page lists artificial intelligence among CS sub-fields (algorithms, data structures, computer graphics, AI, human-computer interaction), but no standalone AI, machine learning, or data science course or certificate was found in the CS or CIS program pages. undated · medium confidencesource
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Team/Lead: Cabrillo/Library/Betsy Vaca
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