The Environmental Scan, made filterable
Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 3 entries, 13 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 4 source-verified findings (1 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.
Central Valley / Mother Lode
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People
Team/Lead: Madera College/Senate/ Instructional Designer/Library Faculty Susan Walsh, Librarian, Kari Johnson, Librarian, and Maia Gonzalez, Librarian
- Distance Education, Flex, Academic Senate, Library, Distance Ed, Technology Committee
- Instructors were concerned about the effects of ai on information literacy and student integrity and saw it as a tool that is already affecting us.
- The instructional designer has tried, but not many takers.
- Pockets of faculty in various disciplines are trying / interested. Nothing official.
- Instructors were concerned about the effects of ai on information literacy and student integrity and saw it as a tool that is already affecting us.
- Classified Professionals and Admins
- I do not know of any administrative work on the topic. AI is routinely used by administrators and their administrative assistants in meetings.
- I believe many of our overworked classified staff are forced to use it in the name of efficiency. We need better involvement.
Policies
- Generative AI named in academic integrity (cheating/plagiarism) policy. The college's official Academic Integrity policy defines cheating to include 'presenting generative Artificial Intelligence work as your own or using a generative AI tool without an instructor's permission,' and states that material created with generative AI tools (ex. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) 'is not considered original' and that using such tools without instructor knowledge/consent 'is considered plagiarism.' 2025 · high confidence — source
- AI integrity language carried forward into current 2025-2026 catalog. The identical generative-AI academic integrity language first added in the 2024-2025 Catalog Addendum (effective Fall 2024) appears unchanged in the live 2025-2026 college catalog, confirming the policy remains current as of the 2025-2026 academic year. 2025 · high confidence — source
- Student AI disclosure/citation requirement tied to instructor guidelines. Catalog policy states that 'Even when instructor guidelines allow for the use of generative AI tools, students may need to disclose and cite all usage of tools such as ChatGPT, Dall-E, etc., specifying the extent and how it is used,' placing AI-use decisions and disclosure expectations at the individual instructor/syllabus level. 2025 · high confidence — source
Policy
Team/Lead: Madera College
- Per survey: to a limited extent.
- We have approved syllabus language about cheating and plagiarism that includes generative ai while allowing instructional faculty room to use it in assignments if they wish.
- I believe ai is also covered in our distance education strategic plan.
Resources
- 🆕District (SCCCD) AI student chatbot contract (Gravyty/Ocelot) — district-level, not Madera-specific. Madera's parent district, State Center Community College District, holds a roughly $870,000 three-year contract for the Gravyty (formerly Ocelot) AI student-services chatbot running through June 20, 2026, with ~5,000 monthly interactions district-wide; the CalMatters report names Fresno City College specifically and does not separately confirm Madera campus deployment. 2026 · low confidence — source
ResourcesPeoplePolicy
Team/Lead: Madera College
- Trainings for faculty and establishing policies that accommodate academic freedom
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, from Origins to Ethical and Academic Concerns: A presentation by librarians discussing AI's history and its impact on education.