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Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 3 entries, 17 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 11 source-verified findings (7 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.

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  • 🆕Faculty Community of Practice and AI speaker series for math faculty. The AI-enhanced calculus project establishes a faculty Community of Practice plus a speaker series and workshops exploring AI-powered teaching strategies, ethical considerations and best practices for integrating AI tools into mathematics instruction. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • Writing Center faculty-led training on generative AI / ChatGPT. PCC Writing Center faculty Giselle Miralles and Genesis Montalvo led training for other faculty (starting Fall 2023) on integrating rather than banning ChatGPT, recommending instructors test assignments against ChatGPT, design tasks requiring self-reflection/personal experience, and require students to disclose and revise AI-generated content. Fall 2023 · high confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Pasadena City College/Senate/Mathematics Department
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Team/Lead: Pasadena City College
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  • 🆕California Learning Lab AI FAST Challenge grant ($150,000) for AI-enhanced calculus. PCC was awarded a $150,000 grant (announced Nov 13, 2024) under the California Education Learning Lab 2024-25 AI FAST Challenge for 'AI-Enhanced Curriculum: Transforming Calculus and Statistics Education,' integrating MathGPT.ai and ChatGPT into Calculus 1. PIs are Xiaodan Leng (PI), Roger A. Yang and Jay Cho (Co-PIs); partnered with CSU Fullerton over a 12-18 month period. 2024 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕NSF HSI grant ($499,867) with Cal State LA for data science/AI math pathways. In October 2025, Cal State LA and PCC announced a ~$499,867 NSF Hispanic-Serving Institutions grant to embed data science, computational thinking and AI into transfer-level math courses, with PCC's Xiaodan Leng as a co-PI. The project funds Python-based curriculum redesign and faculty professional development to strengthen the PCC-to-Cal State LA STEM pathway. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕AI-integrated Calculus 1 curriculum with MathGPT.ai, ChatGPT and Python. Under the Learning Lab grant, PCC is developing AI-integrated Calculus 1 modules emphasizing inquiry-based learning and Python modeling, with students using MathGPT.ai for skill development and ChatGPT for inquiry-based exploration; impact is assessed via student performance data, faculty feedback and surveys. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Exploring a certificate in Mathematics and Statistics for AI & Machine Learning. As part of its grant-funded math initiatives (supported by the J.W. and Ida Jameson Foundation), PCC is exploring/developing a certificate program in Mathematics and Statistics for AI & Machine Learning and expanding AI-infused calculus, linear algebra and statistics courses; status is exploratory rather than approved. 2025 · medium confidence — source
  • 🆕Non-credit/continuing education AI courses via PCC Extension and ed2go. PCC's continuing-education arm offers introductory AI courses including 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence' (online via ed2go) and PCC Extension offerings such as 'AI for Everyday Work' and 'AI for Writing and Editing.' 2025 · medium confidence — source
  • 🆕Student-run AI Club hosted AI Horizons Convention (April 2026). The Artificial Intelligence (AI/ML) Club at Pasadena City College hosted its AI Horizons Convention on April 23, 2026, a student-organized full-day event of panels and presentations on the future of AI featuring speakers from various industries. 2026 · medium confidence — source
  • Library research guide: Using Generative AI (GenAI) for Research. The PCC Library maintains a research guide (last updated January 22, 2025) on using generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini for research, covering appropriate vs. inappropriate uses, limitations, hallucinations, privacy risks, and ethics. It states the library does not endorse any GenAI tools and directs students to consult their instructor's AI policy. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • Library guidance on citing AI tools (APA/MLA) and academic integrity. The library's 'GenAI & Research' guide instructs students that if instructors permit GenAI, they must document/cite usage (attributing the algorithm's creator, e.g., OpenAI, in APA; citing the tool in MLA) and warns that undisclosed use may constitute cheating or plagiarism under PCC's student conduct code. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • Data Science A.S. Degree and Certificate of Achievement. PCC's 2025-2026 catalog lists an 18-unit Data Science Associate in Science degree and Certificate of Achievement covering data management, machine learning and natural language processing, and statistical analysis/visualization, built on courses like Introduction to Data Science (CS 031) and Python/R programming. 2025 · high confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Pasadena City College
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