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AI Landscape by Region
Spring 2025 baseline · June 2026 update

The Environmental Scan, made filterable

Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 50 entries, 299 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 109 source-verified findings (69 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.

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Central Valley / Mother Lode

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Regional patterns & curated resources (4 patterns · 12 resources)
Patterns & learnings
  • Some emerging patterns/learnings from this snapshot in time (February 2025):
  • Leadership: Similar to BA, NFN, differentiated college community approaches, senate, and faculty/staff engagement, again library faculty and staff, distance education, DSPS, instructional designers (where present), academic technology, and discipline faculty are engaged within many communities
  • Learning: Multiple colleges have nourished process with development of PD/learning resources for students and faculty alike, intentional support is also requested and could support those colleges earlier in the process. Supporting peer to peer connection, particularly for early-in-process and/or stuck-in-process might be most welcome, especially peers and exemplars
  • Language: Policies are underway in many communities, again developmental process appears to be use of academic integrity by each professor towards college senate development of guiding syllabus language to adopted policy.
Curated resources
June 2026 regional patterns & learningsupdated

The Central Valley/Mother Lode region is building coordinated institutional programs on top of strong library-led student supports. Merced College is the regional standout, operating an AI Taskforce, a 32-member AI Champions Network, an AQL Labs strategy partnership, and a vetted FERPA-compliant tool suite. Modesto Junior College adopted an institution-wide AI policy, San Joaquin Delta moved toward standardized syllabus language and required AI policies on every syllabus, and smaller colleges (Clovis, Barstow, West Hills) maintain actively updated AI student/faculty guides and district AI-use guidelines.

Bakersfield College

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Engaged People
PeopleSystemsPolicy
Team/Lead: Bakersfield College/Dr. Alex Rockey/ Samuel Moyle, English faculty/Dean Nicky Damania/Ariel Dyer/ Sondra Keckley
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Policies
  • Academic integrity policy addresses generative AI. Bakersfield College's Academic Integrity Policy states students should not use generative AI tools to generate answers unless explicitly told they may, and treats unauthorized AI use as plagiarism, commissioning, or fabrication; in online exams, use of generative AI is treated as cheating. undated · high confidence — source
  • Sample AI syllabus statements for faculty. The academic integrity page provides sample syllabus statements in the instructor's voice covering three approaches: AI permitted with attribution/citation (e.g., ChatGPT welcome if cited), AI limited to instructor-guided use, and AI prohibited for all phases of work. Includes example attribution language for citing AI use. undated · high confidence — source
Policy
Team/Lead: Bakersfield College
  • AI appears to have been added to academic integrity
  • “Using generative artificial intelligence (generative artificial intelligence) tools threatens the integrity of students’ work, and therefore the value of the student’s education. BC expects students to not use generative artificial intelligence tools to generate answers unless students have been explicitly told that they may. Use of generative artificial intelligence tools can constitute a number of forms of academic misconduct. It could be:
  • plagiarism (because you are relying on a source that you have not identified)
  • commissioning (because you are relying on work produced by another person - the company who owns the AI software)
  • fabrication (if the AI makes up data or experiences that you then rely on)
  • In the context of online exams, use of generative artificial intelligence will be treated as cheating. BC assumes that, by submitting a piece of work, students are representing that work as their own and not the product of generative artificial intelligence use or others. BC reserves the right to treat generative artificial intelligence use as a violation of the Standards of Student Conduct.
  • If a student is not clear about the expectations for completing an assignment or taking a test, be sure to seek clarification from the instructor beforehand. For more assistance in your writing, the BC Writing Center is available to support work and guide you through the writing process.
  • Sample syllabus language
  • Cheating, generative artificial intelligence, fabricating, or falsifying information or sources, improper collaboration, submitting the same paper for different classes without permission, and plagiarism are all forms of academic dishonesty. Plagiarism occurs when writers and speakers deliberately or unintentionally use another person's language, ideas, or materials and present them as their own without properly acknowledging and citing the source. Academic dishonesty and/or plagiarism in this course will result in one or more of the following consequences: failure of the assignment, and referral to the Dean of Students. In this course, most often, your instructor will require oral citation of paraphrased material. Cite sources carefully, completely, and meticulously; when in doubt, cite. Familiarize yourself with the Standards of Student Conduct (KCCD Board Policy 5500) and BC definitions of plagiarism and cheating.
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Resources
  • Free 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence' noncredit course. BC's Library and Academic Technology Department launched a free three-course noncredit Media Literacy certificate that includes an asynchronous online 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence' course (two weeks, nine hours of content, on Canvas), with the goal of teaching students to use AI tools ethically in professional and academic settings. 2024 · high confidence — source
  • Emerging Media Literacy noncredit certificate covering AI. BC offers an Emerging Media Literacy Certificate of Competency (noncredit, free, ~27 hours) described as equipping students with skills to navigate the digital world 'covering AI, online safety, and media literacy.' Listed among current noncredit certificate programs. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • Media literacy / AI course taught by named librarians and faculty. The Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course and Media Literacy certificate were developed by BC's Library and Academic Technology Department and are taught by Alex Rockey, Ariel Dyer, Laura Luiz, and Faith Bradham; reference librarian Ariel Dyer described the target audience as older adults, parents, dual enrollment students, and others. 2024 · high confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Bakersfield College
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Barstow Community College

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Engaged People
  • 🆕Faculty Professional Development Hub includes 'teaching AI literacy'. The TLSC page directs faculty to a Faculty Professional Development Hub offering a calendar of (mostly free, online) opportunities and teaching resources on topics including 'teaching AI literacy,' authentic assessment, and Universal Design for Learning. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Faculty-PD page links 'ChatGPT Era' authentic-projects resource. The Human Resources Faculty Professional Development (Faculty-PD) page lists under its Faculty Corner a recorded session titled 'The Need for Real-World and Authentic Projects in a ChatGPT Era' (by Riipen), addressing assignment design in the era of generative AI. undated · medium confidence — source
PeopleResources
Team/Lead: Barstow Community College/Library Faculty and Staff John Macomber, Library Technician II
  • Library Faculty and Staff John Macomber, Library Technician II
  • Developed library guides: Generative AI
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Policies
  • 🆕Academic Honesty policy names AI in plagiarism definition. The 2025-2026 BCC Catalog's Academic Honesty / Academic Standards and Ethics section explicitly defines plagiarism to include 'the intentional use of the ideas or words of another person, Artificial Intelligence (AI)...' and states that turning in 'work that has been written by another person/AI' is plagiarism. 2025 · high confidence — source
Policy
Team/Lead: Barstow Community College
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Resources
  • 🆕AI-powered Study Skills Coach chatbot for students. The Teaching and Learning Support Center (TLSC) page promotes an AI tool for students: 'Feeling Overwhelmed? Chat with our AI-powered Study Skills Coach!' offering on-demand study support alongside human tutoring. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • Library Generative AI research guide (LibGuide). The BCC Library maintains a multi-page Generative A.I. LibGuide (barstow.libguides.com/generative-ai) covering ethics, prompt engineering, an AI timeline, image/video/music/chatbot tools, AI in industry, citation guidance (MLA/APA), and a 'Resources for Educators' section addressing data privacy and FERPA. Authored by John Macomber, Library Technician II, and last updated June 16, 2026. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • AI guidance for students in LibGuide (citation, academic honesty, Turnitin). The LibGuide's 'AI for Higher Education' content advises students not to submit AI-generated writing as their own, notes that plagiarism-detection tools like Turnitin now check for AI generation, warns that ChatGPT can give incorrect/nonsensical answers, and provides MLA/APA citation guidance for AI tools (updated June 2025). 2026 · high confidence — source
  • Ethics philosophy course applies ethical theories to AI. A BCC philosophy/ethics course (PHIL, Ethics) in the 2025-2026 catalog has students apply classical ethical theories (deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics) to 'modern ethical problems, such as artificial intelligence.' AI appears as a topic within an existing course rather than a dedicated AI course. 2025 · medium confidence — source
ResourcesSystems
Team/Lead: Barstow Community College
  • Library Guides
  • Generative AI
  • Ethics
  • Prompt Engineering
  • AI Timeline
  • Image Generators
  • Midjourney
  • Generative Chat Text
  • AI Video
  • AI Phone Apps
  • AI in Industry
  • AI Music & Audio
  • AI Research bots
  • Generative AI in MLA style: MLA doesn't recommend using an AI tool as an author and has a different structure for how to cite an AI Tool. Update June 2023
  • Generative AI in APA style: APA recommends citing the AI tool as the author and in-text citations. Writers should follow the APA Style Guide for structure. Update June 2023
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Cerro Coso Community College

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Engaged People
  • 🆕Proposal to form an AI Practice and Processes Task Force. An Academic Senate document (2025-2026 archive) proposes a temporary ad-hoc 'CCCC AI Practice and Processes Task Force' to be authorized/charged by College Council, with broad faculty/admin/student/classified membership, aligned to CCC Vision 2030 and the HUMANS Framework, targeting formal policy adoption by the conclusion of Spring 2026 (May 2026) and a Fall 2026 rollout. 2025-2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Senate reviewing peer-institution AI policy as a model. The Cerro Coso Academic Senate's 2025-2026 document archive includes a 'Merced College AP BP Policy on AI' reference document, indicating the Senate is reviewing another California community college's adopted AI board policy/administrative procedure while drafting its own. 2025-2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕President endorses federal NSF AI Education Act of 2025. Cerro Coso President Dr. Sean Hancock is quoted endorsing the NSF AI Education Act of 2025 (H.R.5351, Rep. Vince Fong), saying that by expanding AI education and research opportunities the Act 'ensures that community colleges like Cerro Coso Community College can continue to open doors for all learners to thrive in a rapidly changing world.' 2025 · medium confidence — source
PeoplePolicyResources
Team/Lead: Cerro Coso Community College/Academic Senate and Library Faculty and Staff
  • Academic Senate
  • Spring 2023 academic integrity and AI raised to Senate
  • English Professor Yvonne Mills raising issues to AS Exec
  • Library faculty and staff
  • Cerro Coso Library Blog: An Overview of Generative AI
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Policies
  • 🆕Draft institutional AI practices and processes framework. A 'Draft AI Policy for Cerro Coso (version 1)' in the 2025-2026 Academic Senate archive sets a human-centered/DEIAA framework covering ethical requirements (PII/PHI prohibition in commercial AI tools, institutional vetting/procurement, bias, explainability, sustainability), instructor autonomy, four flexible syllabus approaches (Open/Conditional/Restricted/Closed), caution on AI-detection tools, AI literacy as a foundational outcome, and a Canvas resource repository. 2025-2026 · high confidence — source
  • Academic integrity policy addresses generative AI. The college's Academic Integrity page states that without explicit instructor permission, using AI (like ChatGPT) to complete assignments or exams is not allowed, that AI is treated like assistance from another person, and that students must disclose AI use; it ties enforcement to BP/AP 5500 (Standards of Student Conduct). undated · high confidence — source
  • Instructor-set syllabus AI policies with example statements. The academic integrity guidance affirms individual instructors set their own course AI policies in the syllabus and provides example syllabus statements ranging from limited AI use with attribution, to AI welcomed with citation, to complete prohibition of generative AI. undated · high confidence — source
Policy
Team/Lead: Cerro Coso Community College
  • Yes, as part of Academic Integrity for students. Individual course instructors have the authority to set their own policies regulating the use of such tools in their courses.
  • “Generative AI
  • Absent a clear statement from a course instructor, use of or consultation with generative AI shall be treated analogously to assistance from another person. In particular, using generative AI tools to substantially complete an assignment or exam (e.g. by entering exam or assignment questions) is not permitted.
  • Students should acknowledge the use of generative AI to develop any content of an assignment and should default to disclosing such assistance when in doubt.
  • Individual course instructors have the authority to set their own policies regulating the use of generative AI tools in their courses, including allowing or disallowing some or all uses of such tools.
  • Such policies will be identified in the course syllabus and clearly communicated to students in their course orientation materials.
  • Students who are unsure of policies regarding generative AI tools are encouraged to ask their instructors for clarification. Students determined to be using generative AI tools inconsistently with the course syllabus will be subject to the college’s student conduct policy.”
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Resources
  • Library blog overview of generative AI. A Cerro Coso Library blog post 'An Overview of GenAI' (Aug 1, 2024) explains GenAI as 'autocomplete on steroids,' warns about hallucinations and unreliable sources, restates the college's academic-integrity stance, and points readers to tools such as Perplexity, ConnectedPapers, Talpa.ai and Goblin.Tools. Fall 2024 · high confidence — source
  • AI referenced in Cyber Defense Club, not standalone courses. AI appears as a hands-on practice area within the student Cyber Defense Club, but the Information Technology department course list shows no dedicated AI, machine learning, generative AI, or data science courses. undated · medium confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Cerro Coso Community College
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Clovis Community College

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Engaged People
PeoplePolicyResources
Team/Lead: Clovis Community College
  • Library faculty created AI guide for students
  • Many departments are collaborating in an academic senate ad hoc on AI policy, including participants from English, Communications, Geology, Philosophy, Computer Science, Art, Chemistry, and Information Systems
  • Last year a senate ad hoc committee was created and folks joined based on interest.
  • The ad hoc committee developed the language concerning cheating and plagiarism which is currently in our college catalog; it is currently thinking of revising that language (removing it from the plagiarism section) and expanding the scope of the policy to cover acceptable uses for both faculty and students.
  • The committee is also planning to run a faculty survey to gain insight on how AI is used and perceived around campus. Future projects may involve AI workshops, though several Clovis faculty run workshops at other campuses in our district
  • DSPS faculty and staff also working with AI tools to increase accessibility
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Policies
  • Library guidance: consult instructor and cite AI. The AI Student Guide instructs students to 'always discuss your plans to use AI with your instructor and cite it in any submitted work,' and to 'always consult your instructor for AI usage policies and use these tools with caution.' This is library guidance rather than a formal college/district AI integrity policy. 2026 · high confidence — source
PolicySystems
Team/Lead: Clovis Community College
  • It is quite minimal, related only to academic integrity/plagiarism
  • Online Course Guidelines
  • “Students should make themselves aware of any instructor-/course-specific A.I. use policies. Instructors at Clovis Community College may use Turnitin’s A.I. detection tools, among other tools, to check for A.I.-generated text in student submissions. Always feel free to reach out to your instructor for guidance moving forward.”
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Resources
  • 🆕Library AI Student Guide (LibGuide). The CCC library maintains an 'AI Student Guide' research guide introducing generative AI concepts and tools (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, DALL-E, Grammarly, etc.), how AI text generators work, hallucinations, and responsible use; created by librarian Malina Zakian and updated by Sue Weber. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Critical use of generative AI (ROBOT test). A 'Critical Use of Generative AI Tools' page lists appropriate uses (brainstorming, generating search keywords, summarizing, refining writing) and applies the ROBOT test (Reliability, Objective, Bias, Ownership, Type) to evaluate AI tools and outputs. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Prompt engineering guidance (CLEAR framework). A 'Creating a Prompt' page teaches the CLEAR framework (Concise, Logical, Explicit, Adaptive, Reflective) for writing AI prompts, linking to OpenAI prompt-engineering guidance and Harvard recommendations. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕AI considerations include equity/accessibility, bias, privacy, environment. An 'AI Considerations' page addresses privacy ('Only enter information into Generative AI tools that you would share publicly online'), training-data bias and confirmation bias, AI's energy/carbon footprint, copyright, hallucinations, and equity/accessibility, noting government restrictions and uneven internet access create 'regional disparities in AI education and development.' 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Citing AI guidance page. The AI Student Guide includes a 'Citing AI' section directing students to cite generative AI tools in submitted work; the overall guide was last updated March 11, 2026. 2026 · medium confidence — source
  • 🆕Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Suite (non-credit, ed2go). Through its Training Institute / ed2go online catalog, CCC offers a non-credit continuing-education 'Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Suite' covering the science behind AI, AI ethics and applications, and supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised machine learning techniques; instructor-moderated online, taught by David Iseminger, no prerequisites beyond basic computer skills. 2025 · medium confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Clovis Community College
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College of the Sequoias

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  • 🆕"AI in Action" generative-AI workforce training (Training Resource Center). The COS Training Resource Center offers "AI in Action," a four-module hands-on course on generative AI tools for business productivity, customer experience/marketing, data-driven decision-making, and AI-powered data visualization; a 2026 session runs Oct 7-28, 2026 (Wednesdays, 10am-12pm), $225 (or $30 with ETP funding), instructor John Holling. Most companies qualify for ETP funding. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕AI in Action listed among current Training Resource Center offerings. The COS Training Resource Center homepage lists "AI in Action" among its current open-enrollment courses, with a participant review noting it gave "great exposure to various AI platforms" and "good tips on prompts to get better results." 2026 · high confidence — source
PeoplePolicyResourcesSystems
Team/Lead: College of the Sequoias/Senate, DE, ETC, District Senate/Elise Baker/Distance Education Coordinator/ Katie Beberian/English Faculty
  • Distance Education Committee, Educational Technology Committee, Academic Senate, District Governance Senate
  • Distance Education Coordinator began offering workshops on drafting syllabus policies on AI use and detection, curated a resource kit for the public website, and offered training on the Turnitin AI detector.
  • The Educational Tech Committee began working when the Academic Senate asked them to create a policy on district-wide AI use, including policies that extend to administration.
  • May 2024 Statement from the Educational Technology Committee on AI policies in your classes
  • The Educational Tech Committee declined, saying it was outside of their purview.
  • Academic Senate and District Governance Senate are forming a joint task for to create broad parameters for appropriate AI use in the District.
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Policies
PolicyPeople
Team/Lead: College of the Sequoias
  • Statement of Educational Technology Committee on AI policies in your classes
  • The College of the Sequoias’ Board Policy 5500: Standards of Conduct, #13 states: “Cheating, plagiarism (including plagiarism in a student publication), or engaging in other academic dishonesty. Plagiarism means presenting other people’s words or ideas as one’s own. It may include, but is not limited to, submitting material taken from the web or elsewhere as original work; failing to provide complete citations and references for all work that draws on the ideas, words, or work of others; or failing to identify the contributors to work done in collaboration.”
  • With the increasing use and access to generative AI tools, both in classes, work, and private lives, some faculty have asked for guidance on how to respond to this new technology, and if the college needs a new policy. It is the opinion of the Ed Tech Committee that our Board Policy already addresses this new technology in BP5500.
  • Example of Nursing Program Approach
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Resources
  • Computer Science offerings include Python and MATLAB but no dedicated AI/ML course. The 2026-2027 catalog Computer Science (CSCI) listings include programming, computer architecture, discrete structures, MATLAB (CSCI 020) and Python (CSCI 030), but no course descriptions explicitly focused on artificial intelligence or machine learning. 2026 · medium confidence — source
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Team/Lead: College of the Sequoias
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Columbia College

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  • 🆕President's office positions college on AI. The Office of the President page (Interim President Dr. Chad Redwing) states Columbia College is 'At the forefront of shaping California's conversations on Artificial Intelligence, driving innovation that empowers students and communities alike,' though no specific AI initiative, partnership, or governance body is detailed on the page. undated · medium confidence — source
  • Faculty in-service co-presentation on AI writing tools (2022). An Academic Senate report to the Board of Trustees notes a professional development / in-service day co-presentation by computer science faculty Joe Manlove and English faculty Kim Pippa-Tonneson on how students might use AI writing programs to submit work, how this changes education, and how to assess critical thinking and formal writing. Fall 2022 · high confidence — source
PeopleResources
Team/Lead: Columbia College/Librarian Brian Greene
  • The college's Learning Technology & Innovation department is actively exploring AI's role in education.
  • Some of our administrators have been to presentations discussing AI and the benefits and challenges in higher education.
  • There has been a faculty committee that has also met multiple times to inform others on campus on these same issues around AI.
  • We are planning to bring a speaker onto campus in the future.
  • Library faculty created library guide Format & Cite: Chat GPT /AI
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Policies
  • Generative AI clause in academic integrity policy (2025-2026 catalog). The 2025-2026 course catalog states permitted use of generative AI varies by course; students must review each syllabus, should acknowledge/cite AI use and disclose when in doubt, and absent instructor permission AI consultation is treated analogously to assistance from another person and may be an academic integrity violation; using generative AI to substantially complete an assignment or exam is not permitted. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • Syllabus-level AI expectations directed to students and faculty. Official guidance instructs students that permitted AI use varies by course and to review each course syllabus and/or instructor guidelines, placing responsibility on instructors to define AI rules per course; the same language is surfaced via the catalog academic integrity policy and the library AI guide. 2025 · high confidence — source
Policy
Team/Lead: Columbia College
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Resources
  • 🆕Library 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education' research guide. Columbia College library publishes a multi-tab LibGuide (Home, AI Fundamentals, AI Tools for Research, How to Craft Prompts, Research Resources on AI, Latest Scholarship on AI, Ethics & AI, Citing Generative AI, AI Authorship & Copyright, Campus Policies) authored by librarian Brian Greene, adapted from Georgetown University Library under CC BY-NC 4.0; last updated Feb 10, 2026. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Student-facing AI literacy guidance (citing AI, prompts, ethics). The AI in Education guide gives students reminders to 'Check your syllabus or ask your professor before using generative AI tools,' plus dedicated pages on citing generative AI, crafting prompts, AI ethics, and AI/authorship/copyright, referencing tools such as ChatGPT and Elicit. 2026 · high confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Columbia College
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Fresno City College

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  • 🆕Free public AI training workshops with Fresno State (Summer 2026). FCC and Fresno State co-developed two free, five-hour hands-on public AI workshops (June 6, 2026 at Fresno State; July 11, 2026 in FCC's Old Administration Building Auditorium), co-led by FCC information systems professor Todd McLeod and Fresno State CS chair Dr. Shih-Hsi (Alex) Liu, focused on effective prompting using tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot. Sponsored by Granville Homes, with student tutors from both campuses assisting. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕AI-readiness working group led by entrepreneurship instructor. FCC entrepreneurship instructor Amber Balakian leads a working group focused on AI readiness, informing faculty and students about AI's anticipated workplace impact and emphasizing skills such as freelancing in an AI-shifted job market. 2025 · medium confidence — source
PeopleResourcesSystems
Team/Lead: Fresno City College/Library Faculty Linda Kobashigawa/Business Faculty Rio Waller
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Team/Lead: Fresno City College
  • Not yet found. Appears to rely on the Student Code of Conduct professor to professor.
  • Library guide advises:
  • A note about using generative AI in your coursework
  • “We have developed citation guidance with the assumption that you are allowed to use AI in your school work. However, each of your instructors may have different policies about using AI tools, like ChatGPT, in their courses. We recommend thoroughly reading the course policies, syllabus, and checking with your instructors to understand their classroom policies concerning AI.”
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  • 🆕Three-year grant to implement AI in the classroom. FCC is in a three-year grant to figure out how to implement AI into the classroom and develop tailored AI tools that enhance learning and support teachers while addressing effective and ethical AI use, led by Professor Rio Waller (Computer Information Technology) and her team. Quote from Waller: 'We are in a three-year grant to implement AI, to figure out how to implement AI into the classroom and what are the things we need to think about and what are the things to plan for.' 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕'Sam the Ram' AI chatbot (Gravyty) criticized as outdated. FCC deploys an AI student-services chatbot dubbed 'Sam the Ram' after its mascot, part of a nearly $870,000 three-year State Center Community College District contract with Gravyty (formerly Ocelot) running through June 20, 2026. A CalMatters investigation found the chatbot gave unclear or incorrect answers to basic campus-service questions; an FCC student government VP called it 'outdated.' 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Central San Joaquin Valley Cybersecurity Consortium / AI-Cybersecurity pathway. FCC co-founded (with Fresno State) the Central San Joaquin Valley Cybersecurity Consortium, born from a grant by FCC business education dean Timothy Woods and Fresno State professor Keith Clement; a founding regional summit was held at FCC in November 2024. The consortium is developing a regional AI-Cybersecurity pipeline/pathway; per FCC cybersecurity instructor Verne Farley, 'The idea is to get schools, local businesses, local technology and government agencies altogether talking about cyber and AI.' 2025 · medium confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Fresno City College
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Madera College

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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
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Team/Lead: Madera College
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Merced Community College

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Engaged People
  • 🆕AI Taskforce for governance, supports, and guardrails. Merced College has established an AI Taskforce providing coordinated cross-campus leadership for secure and ethical AI use, with projects spanning AI policy, the Innovation Challenge, the AI webpage, an AI course, AI tools, and the AI Champions network. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕AI Champions Network of 32 faculty and staff. A cross-functional 'AI Champions Network' of 32 faculty and staff embedded across every division meets monthly in cohort format to share lessons learned and support responsible, human-centered AI adoption across teaching, learning, and operations. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕'AI with Purpose' self-paced foundations course for faculty/staff. Merced College developed 'AI with Purpose: A Human-Centered Guide for Education, Work, and Life,' a 6-8 hour self-paced course for faculty and staff covering AI foundations, AI for educators, AI for students, and AI in the workplace; completion earns 3 DE recertification hours. 2026 · high confidence — source
PeopleSystems
Team/Lead: Merced Community College
  • Mar 2024 AgTechX Summit held at Merced College on March 7
  • Artificial intelligence, automation, electric vehicles, and robotics are reshaping the landscape of agriculture
  • Sept 2024 AI Focus Group at Merced College
  • We are developing an innovative AI-powered tool to assist students with navigating academic pathways and transferring to four-year institutions. This tool, integrated with the Program Pathway Mapper, uses a large language model (LLM) to provide personalized guidance and answers to your academic questions.
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  • 🆕HUMANS framework guiding principles for AI. Merced College's AI approach follows the HUMANS framework (Human-Centered, Universal Support, Managed Privacy, Algorithmic Fairness, Notice & Transparency, Safety & Security), aligned with California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office guidance; an AI Tool Registry & Policy is noted as 'coming soon.' 2026 · high confidence — source
  • Three-tier syllabus AI statement options for faculty. The Teaching with AI page provides faculty three syllabus statement options (AI generally permitted with attribution; permitted under some circumstances; not permitted), adapted from the ASCCC Academic Integrity in the AI Age resource. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • Unattributed AI use tied to Academic Honesty Policy (AP 5540). Merced College states that using AI tools to generate content without proper attribution is a violation of the Academic Honesty Policy (Administrative Procedure 5540), and students may be sanctioned for confirmed, non-allowable use. 2026 · high confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Merced Community College
  • Not yet found. Appears to be professor to professor.
  • Per Faculty Handbook,
  • Syllabus Requirements, AI Policy
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  • 🆕District-approved FERPA-compliant AI tool suite. The district has invested in a small set of approved, FERPA-compliant AI tools: Google Gemini and NotebookLM, Nectir AI (Canvas-integrated, supports GPT/Claude/Gemini), Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), and BoodleBox (multi-model collaboration), and directs staff not to use unvetted tools or upload FERPA-protected data. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕AQL Labs partnership to build AI strategy. AQL Labs (a strategy firm founded by former Gates Foundation postsecondary leaders) is supporting Merced College leadership in co-developing a shared AI mission and vision, identifying priority use cases, and establishing goals and guardrails, learning alongside peer colleges. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Applied Computer AI Systems Professional Certificate. Merced College offers an 'Applied Computer AI Systems Professional' Certificate of Completion (13 units; core course CTIS-13) that provides IT professionals foundational knowledge to design and implement AI-driven solutions, covering AI architecture, machine learning, cloud AI (AWS/Azure), and AI ethics. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕CTIS-31 AI Technology, Ethics, the Individual, and Society. CTIS-31 (3 units) examines ethical dilemmas posed by AI technologies including privacy, bias, accountability, and fairness; the catalog also lists CTIS-02 (Programming Concepts and AI Driven Methodologies) and CTIS-08 (Introduction to Smart Systems Analysis and Design). 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Innovation with AI Hub and live consultations. The Trident Innovation Center runs an 'Innovation with Artificial Intelligence' Hub with AI guides, live consultations from instructional designers (Pamela Huntington, Keri Ortiz), EdTech pilots, and an 'AI Conversations' Teams channel open to all employees. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕AI Innovation Challenge for faculty and staff. The AI Innovation Challenge invites all faculty, staff, and administrators to propose AI-driven solutions for problem-solving, process improvement, and student experience; selected participants receive access to advanced tools and Innovation Team support. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • CTIS-13 AI Concepts and Real-World Applications. CTIS-13 'AI Concepts and Real-World Applications' is a 4-unit, CSU/UC-transferable course introducing fundamental AI concepts, machine learning, natural language processing, and real-world applications in healthcare, finance, and manufacturing, with hands-on AI tool experience. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • Library LibGuide: Generative AI guide for students. A Merced College library guide ('Using ChatGPT Effectively / Generative AI Guide for Students') by librarian Karrie Bullock covers ChatGPT capabilities/limits, fact-checking, prompt techniques, and citing generative AI, advising students to check course syllabi; adapted from University of Arizona Libraries under CC BY 4.0. 2025 · high confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Merced Community College
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Modesto Junior College

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Engaged People
  • 🆕Ad hoc Academic Senate AI Workgroup. An ad hoc Academic Senate AI Workgroup, co-chaired by librarians Iris Carroll and Stella Beratlis, met from January to December 2024 with faculty from SLAE, BSS, and APH to develop AI policy changes and faculty guidance. 2024 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕José Antonio Bowen AI teaching workshops (Spring 2025). MJC hosted four hybrid faculty workshops with author/speaker José Antonio Bowen on AI in teaching beginning January 31, 2025, with recorded sessions made available to faculty. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Student and faculty AI literacy workshops and roundtables. MJC ran 'Chatbots & Checkpoints: Where Does AI Fit into the Research Process' (seven sessions across both campuses, Spring 2025), an 'AI Literacy in the Age of ChatGPT' Institute Week workshop (Fall 2024), and a 'Let's Chat: A Candid Conversation About AI at MJC' student/faculty roundtable (April 10, 2024). 2025 · high confidence — source
PeopleResources
Team/Lead: Modesto Junior College/Library Faculty Iris Carroll
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Policies
  • 🆕MJC Policy Regarding the Use of Artificial Intelligence (Academic Senate-approved). In early Spring 2025 the MJC Academic Senate passed the 'MJC Policy Regarding the Use of Artificial Intelligence,' a flexible framework providing language faculty can incorporate into their course syllabi regarding AI use. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Syllabus statement guidance on AI use. The faculty pedagogy guide advises instructors to include clear syllabus statements on whether/how AI may be used, hold class conversations, use honor statements or group agreements, and specify which skills must be demonstrated without AI, referencing the Senate-approved AI policy framework. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • Academic Integrity Policy updated to address AI in plagiarism definition. In Spring 2024 the AI workgroup proposed a change to MJC's Academic Integrity (Academic Freedom & Integrity) Policy to account for AI in its definition of plagiarism; unauthorized/unattributed use of AI is treated as plagiarism. 2024 · high confidence — source
PolicySystems
Team/Lead: Modesto Junior College
  • “MJC has an Academic Freedom & Integrity policy that defines the unauthorized use of AI as plagiarism. In addition, instructors may have policies on how ChatGPT or other AI may or may not be used in classroom assignments. If your instructor doesn't have a written policy or hasn't stated whether AI can be used for assignments, ask them!”
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Resources
  • 🆕Central Valley AI Innovation Forum (May 2025). On May 21, 2025, Yosemite Community College District, the MJC Foundation, and the Columbia College Foundation co-hosted the free public 'Central Valley AI Innovation Forum: Shaping Our Regional Future' at MJC's East Campus, with California Community Colleges Chancellor Sonya Christian as keynote and nearly 300 registrants; topics spanned AI in manufacturing, healthcare, education, and workforce. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Online continuing-education AI courses (ed2go / Data Science & AI). Through its non-credit continuing/career-training catalog MJC offers an online 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence' course (ed2go) and an online 'Data Science & Artificial Intelligence' course covering Python, machine learning, data analysis, automation, and SQL; these are workforce/continuing-education offerings rather than credit certificates. 2025 · medium confidence — source
  • 🆕No standard institution-wide AI detection/use policy; left to instructors. MJC President Brian Sanders stated there is no standard policy for AI use or detection; individual professors decide how or whether to address student AI use, AI detection tools are acknowledged as not always accurate, and some instructors are reverting to in-person/handwritten ('blue book') assessments. 2025 · medium confidence — source
  • 🆕AI detection tools guidance (not recommended as sole method). The faculty guide includes an 'AI Detection Tools' page advising that detection tools should not be the sole means of identifying AI use but one method among others, reflecting concerns about accuracy. 2026 · medium confidence — source
  • Student Guide to Generative Artificial Intelligence (library research guide). The MJC Library maintains a multi-page 'Student Guide to Generative Artificial Intelligence' covering ethical use, academic integrity/citing AI, study assistance, AI and careers, and developing AI skills; adapted from the 2025 Elon University / AAC&U Student Guide. Last updated March 9, 2026. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • AI Literacy in the Age of ChatGPT (Faculty Guide). Librarian Iris Carroll created an online faculty guide, 'AI Literacy in the Age of ChatGPT,' covering pedagogy, AI detection tools, prompt writing, citation, and ethical concerns; last updated March 9, 2026. 2026 · high confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Modesto Junior College
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Porterville College

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Engaged People
  • 🆕English professor selected as statewide AI Fellow (only one from Central Valley). Dr. Rachel Tatro-Duarte, Professor of English at Porterville College, was selected as one of 13 inaugural Fellows in the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office AI Fellows program and is the only Fellow representing the Central Valley. Her work focuses on AI Workforce Development for the Central Valley Mother Lode Consortium (CVML). 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Participation in CCCCO statewide AI Fellows cohort / Vision 2030. Porterville College's Rachel Tatro-Duarte is listed in the 2025 AI Fellows Cohort of the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office. The two-year fellowship develops frameworks and guidelines for responsible AI adoption across all 116 colleges, spanning teaching and learning, professional development, student support, and workforce development, as a cornerstone of Vision 2030. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕AI Fellow tasked with faculty support and professional training integration. Per ABC30 coverage, the AI Fellowship Tatro-Duarte joined supports AI integration across faculty development, student engagement, and classified professional training, with an emphasis on people developing skills to work alongside AI rather than being replaced by it. 2025 · medium confidence — source
PeoplePolicy
Team/Lead: Porterville College/Senate/Joy Lawrence (Distance Education Committee)
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PolicyPeople
Team/Lead: Porterville College
Resources
  • KCCD/AWS AI-ML Guided Pathways advising tool (Porterville is a member college). The Kern Community College District, which includes Porterville College (with Bakersfield and Cerro Coso), partnered with AWS to build an AI/ML-enabled Guided Pathways tool that flags when students take courses misaligned with their program, aiming to decrease time to degree, reduce excess credits, and augment limited advising staff. The tool was in active POC testing with KCCD counselors and advisors. 2024 · high confidence — source
  • Not-for-credit AI / Machine Learning continuing-education courses via ed2go. Porterville College's branded ed2go continuing-education catalog lists an 'Introduction to Machine Learning' online course described as building on concepts from an 'Introduction to AI' course, covering AI/ML topics. These are not-for-credit online offerings rather than credit curriculum or a certificate. 2025 · medium confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Porterville College
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Reedley College

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Engaged People
  • 🆕Faculty PD session: 'Engaging Your Students in Honest Discussions about AI'. On January 10, 2025, Reedley College hosted a faculty professional development presentation, 'Important Conversations: Engaging Your Students in Honest Discussions about AI,' led by Dr. Lew Ludwig (Denison University), covering generative-AI capabilities and classroom strategies for AI discussions. January 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕President Jerry Buckley on AI-driven workforce reskilling. Reedley College President Dr. Jerry Buckley publicly framed AI as a workforce-transformation driver, saying colleges must become lifelong-reskilling 'facilities' and that 'we've got to figure out what those new certificates and degrees are going to look like,' citing competency-based education to help adults retrain for AI-influenced jobs. September 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 'Exploring the World of Artificial Intelligence' faculty workshop series. Reedley College ran a multi-part professional development workshop series, 'Exploring The World of Artificial Intelligence: A Reedley College Professional Development Workshop Series,' documented as a YouTube playlist of virtual AI workshops (Reedley invited Fresno City College faculty to participate). undated (pre-2025 baseline series) · medium confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Reedley College/Library Faculty Allie Kenyon/English Faculty Lori Levine
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Team/Lead: Reedley College
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  • 🆕CELA 314 'Integrating AI into Teaching' educator course. Reedley College's Continuing Education Learning Academy (CELA) offers a noncredit/professional-development course, CELA 314 / TEC-1922 'Integrating AI into Teaching' (instructor Amanda Taintor), equipping educators to integrate AI into teaching, personalize instruction, and address ethical considerations and AI over-reliance in assessment. 2025/2026 (currently listed) · high confidence — source
  • Library research guide on AI and ChatGPT. The Reedley College Library maintains a 'ChatGPT and AI' subject/course guide with four sections: 'What is AI and ChatGPT?', 'Academia and AI', 'Citing AI', and 'Additional Resources' (podcasts, books like 'Race after Technology' and 'Algorithms of Oppression'). The guide explicitly addresses citing AI and classroom impacts. 2023 (last updated July 12, 2023) · high confidence — source
  • 'Citing AI' and 'Academia and AI' library guide tabs. Within the library AI guide, dedicated 'Citing AI' and 'Academia and AI' tabs discuss how/when to cite large language models per MLA/APA/Chicago and surface academic-integrity concerns about AI-generated student work. 2023 (last updated July 12, 2023) · high confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Reedley College
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San Joaquin Delta College

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Engaged People
  • 🆕AI Taskforce now chaired by VP of Administrative Services. As of May 2025, the AI Taskforce is chaired by Augustine Chavez, Vice President of Administration Services; its goal is to train faculty and amend administrative procedures 4020.1-2 to require an AI policy on all course syllabi. The Taskforce, Distance Education Committee, and Academic Senate are jointly pursuing this requirement. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕AI Learning Lab hands-on training series. The Professional Development Center runs an AI Learning Lab, an interactive hands-on training series for faculty, staff, and administrators led by facilitator Kerry Steers. The Spring 2026 schedule lists six Tuesday sessions (Holt 121 Lab) covering Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT/Notion AI, Google Sheets AI/Tableau/Flourish, ChatPDF/Gemini, NotebookLM, and Guidde/Scribe, each examined through lenses of access, bias, privacy/ethics, learning/integrity, and sustainability. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • AI Task Force formed by President's Council. Following the Feb. 15, 2024 Presidents' Council meeting, President Lisa Aguilera Lawrenson formed an AI Task Force (chaired by her per the 2024 article) to inventory the use of emerging educational technologies (AI, AR, VR) across the institution and recommend a way forward with stakeholder input. A consultant, Dr. Thomas Greene, presented to the board Feb. 20, 2024. 2024 · high confidence — source
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Team/Lead: San Joaquin Delta College/AI Taskforce/Student Services Deans/Library Faculty Loren Valterza
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Policies
  • 🆕Academic Senate motion for standardized AI syllabus language. On April 2, 2025, the Academic Senate unanimously passed a motion recommending standardized syllabus language offering instructors three options: 'usage of AI with or without citation,' 'some AI usage allowed with citation,' or 'AI tool usage not allowed.' The administration aims to amend administrative procedures 4020.1-2 to require an AI policy on all syllabi; no firm implementation date was given. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕AI strictly prohibited for scholarship essays. The Financial Aid & Scholarships Office prohibits use of AI tools 'including, but not limited to, ChatGPT, Jasper, Grammarly GO, or any AI writing assistant' when writing, editing, or generating scholarship essays; AI-detected essays are disqualified and violators are referred to the Office of Student Conduct. undated · high confidence — source
  • No standalone AI policy; AI handled under existing academic dishonesty rules. As of May 2025 no AI-specific institutional policy exists beyond the general student conduct process. The Student Conduct Handbook does not address AI directly but covers plagiarism / misrepresenting others' work; individual instructors set AI rules in their own syllabi, and no institutional policy mandates or restricts AI-detection software. 2025 · high confidence — source
PolicyPeopleSystems
Team/Lead: San Joaquin Delta College
  • Not yet found. Part of Student Code of Conduct, academic integrity
  • Student services faculty and staff supporting with referrals created by plagiarism prevention tools has asked instructional faculty to develop policy
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Resources
  • 🆕Community of Practice: Designing AI-Resilient Assignments. The Professional Development Center's 2025 offerings include a Community of Practice titled 'Designing AI-Resilient Assignments,' described as learning how to redesign course assignments to be more resilient to generative AI. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕$850,000 federal grant for cybersecurity hub incorporating AI tools. On May 28, 2026, Rep. Josh Harder delivered an $850,000 federal grant to build a cybersecurity hub at Delta's Mountain House campus; Harder stated 'a lot of the tools that they're going to use in this curriculum are going [to] be how to use AI,' and noted 'artificial intelligence is exposing underprepared systems like never before.' 2026 · high confidence — source
  • BlackBeltHelp HumanAI for 24/7 IT Helpdesk. In 2023 the college adopted BlackBeltHelp's HumanAI for IT Helpdesk, a hybrid model using AI-powered chatbots and voicebots that escalate to live agents for 24/7 support; the vendor case study reports 94.2% of requests answered by bot, 38-second average response time, and 85% first-contact resolution. 2023 · medium confidence — source
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Team/Lead: San Joaquin Delta College
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Taft College

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Team/Lead: Taft College/Senate/ Library Faculty Stacy Rollstin-Weiland
  • Sept 2023 Senate has proposed to amend student code of conduct, doesn’t appear to be student-facing yet
  • Jan 2024 Syllabus Examples
  • Dec 2024 Library faculty have created A Library Guide for students and faculty
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Policies
  • Four sample syllabus AI-policy templates for faculty. The instructor guidance provides four ready-to-use syllabus policy approaches (AI use with reflection/disclaimer, AI use with citation, AI use with restrictions, and AI use prohibited), advising instructors to specify permitted tools, require student disclosure, and reference the institutional academic dishonesty policy. 2025 · high confidence — source
PolicyPeopleResources
Team/Lead: Taft College
  • Not yet found student-facing, reliant on academic honesty policy.
  • Sept 2023 Senate proposed to amend academic honesty policy to include AI
  • “Resolved, That the Academic Senate of Taft College add the following additional example to the current Academic Honesty policy of Taft College: Misrepresentation: presenting information created by text-generating software as your own words and ideas.”
  • Taft College: Using AI Effectively (students and faculty)
  • Student Guidance
  • “Providing attribution when using AI is important because it ensures transparency and accountability in your research. However, always defer to your instructor on their requirements for GenAI use and citation. Some instructors might not allow any use of GenAI so check each class' policy.
  • Faculty Example Syllabi
  • AI Use With Reflection
  • AI Use With Citation
  • AI Use With Restrictions
  • AI Use Prohibited
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Resources
  • 🆕AI ethics page in library guide. The AI Literacy guide includes an Ethics page covering algorithmic bias, copyright, environmental impact, labor exploitation, privacy, and transparency, drawing on materials from UT, University of Arizona, and Georgetown libraries. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕How to cite AI guidance (APA, MLA, Chicago). The guide's 'How to Cite AI' page gives format-specific instructions for citing generative AI tools in APA, MLA, and Chicago styles, and reminds students to confirm AI use with their instructor since policies vary by course. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕AI Literacy guide refreshed/maintained June 2025. All pages of the Taft College Drake Memorial Library AI Literacy LibGuide carry a 'Last Updated: June 30, 2025' date and are maintained by librarian Stacy Rollstin-Weiland, indicating the resource was current and actively maintained as of mid-2025. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Generative AI tools catalogued for students/faculty. The AI Literacy guide lists 11 generative AI tools spanning text, image, and video (ChatGPT, Claude, DALL-E 3, Elicit, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, Jasper, Midjourney, Runway ML, Stable Diffusion, Synthesia) as part of its AI literacy resources. These are referenced/cited tools, not institutionally licensed deployments. 2025 · medium confidence — source
  • AI Literacy LibGuide - guidance for students. The Drake Memorial Library's AI Literacy guide includes a 'Guidance for Students' page giving practical applications (fact-checking, brainstorming, language practice, writing improvement) and stressing students should prioritize their instructor's guidelines and critically evaluate AI output. Adapted from Brescia University materials. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • AI Literacy LibGuide - guidance for instructors. The library guide's 'Guidance for Instructors' page offers four syllabus-policy templates (AI use with reflection, with citation, with restrictions, and prohibited), advice on AI-detection tools and their limits, and links to external frameworks (Oregon State, Lance Eaton's crowd-sourced policies). Adapted from San Diego Mesa College (CC BY-NC 4.0). 2025 · high confidence — source
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Team/Lead: Taft College
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West Hills College Coalinga

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Engaged People
  • 🆕WHCCD AI Workgroup and recommended AI governance process. An AI Workgroup at West Hills Community College District authored the AI guidelines and recommends establishing an AI governance process within the district's Technology Committees, with representatives from different groups and levels, plus needs-assessment/feasibility steps before adopting AI systems. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕WHCCD Chancellor on AI panel at 2026 CVHEC summit. West Hills Community College District Chancellor Dr. Robert Pimentel is listed to provide introductions for an 'AI and Emerging Technologies for Student Success' panel at the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium summit on April 24, 2026. This is district-level engagement, not a Coalinga College-specific program. 2026 · medium confidence — source
  • AI education and professional development called for in district guidelines. The WHCCD AI guidelines call for providing ongoing AI education and training for students, faculty, staff, and stakeholders and consulting with experts and communities of practice on AI best practices; this is stated as a guideline/recommendation rather than a documented program. 2025 · medium confidence — source
PeopleResources
Team/Lead: College Coalinga/Library Faculty Heather Evans and Rachel Fleming
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Policies
  • 🆕WHCCD AI Use Guidelines and Considerations. The West Hills Community College District AI Workgroup created and maintains a district-wide 'AI Use at WHCCD: Guidelines and Considerations' document (Coalinga College is a WHCCD college). It sets principles for ethical/responsible AI use, instructs users to avoid submitting protected/confidential data to third-party AI tools, and emphasizes equity, transparency, privacy, and intellectual-property safeguards. 2025 · high confidence — source
Policy
Team/Lead: West Hills College Coalinga
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Team/Lead: West Hills College Coalinga
  • No, but Industrial Technology programs at sister-college Lemoore College include training in industrial automation, which may encompass AI-related topics.
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West Hills College Lemoore

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Engaged People
  • 🆕WHCCD AI Workgroup. The district AI Use guidelines document is created and maintained by 'WHCCD's AI Workgroup,' and the document recommends establishing an AI governance process within the district Technology Committees involving representatives from different groups and levels of WHCCD. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Stay Golden Podcast Ep. 4: Embracing AI in the Classroom. Lemoore College's official 'Stay Golden' podcast (hosted by President James Preston) released Episode 4, 'Embracing AI in the Classroom,' featuring Psychology faculty member Allen Fortune and students discussing how students and instructors combine creativity and AI tools for assignments that promote collaboration, critical thinking, and innovation. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕AI/drone agricultural technology faculty workshop (with Reedley College, UC Davis). Lemoore College Ag Systems Management professor Anthony M. Farao and Reedley College's Allen Viscarra attended a UC Davis workshop (led by Dr. Ali Moghimi) on AI for analyzing multispectral crop-health data, drones, and sensor tools; both planned to incorporate these emerging technologies into their Agricultural Systems Management programs to prepare students for technology-driven farming. Fall 2024 · high confidence — source
PeopleResourcesSystems
Team/Lead: Lemoore College/Senate/Student Services/Library Faculty Faculty Heather Evans and Rachel Fleming
  • The majority of the work has been done in the Instructional Side.
  • Library Faculty have created Guides
  • Chat GPT
  • AI & Copyright
  • Student Services administrators, Teaching Faculty.
  • Within student services involvement is at the individual level.
  • Managers and staff use AI for productivity. None specific to AI within Student Services.
Policies
  • 🆕WHCCD district-wide AI Use Guidelines and Considerations. The West Hills Community College District (which governs Lemoore College) AI Workgroup maintains a published 'AI Use at WHCCD: Guidelines and Considerations' document covering ethical/responsible AI use (align with mission, promote equity, protect privacy, 'avoid submitting protected and confidential data to third-party AI tools'), human-centered AI development, professional development, and AI system management. It recommends establishing an AI governance process within the Technology Committees and conducting needs/feasibility assessments before adopting AI systems. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Nursing (ADN) program AI usage statement. The 2025-2026 Associate Degree Nursing Student Handbook includes a 'Use of Artificial Intelligence' section that encourages students to use foundation models (ChatGPT, GPT, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, GitHub Copilot) for brainstorming and structuring assignments, requires fact-checking and APA-format citation of AI plus a link to the AI conversation, and warns that unacknowledged AI use or unverifiable authenticity can result in a zero grade. 2025 · high confidence — source
Policy
Team/Lead: West Hills College Lemoore
Resources
  • 🆕AI referenced in Digital Art OER textbook. Lemoore College's open educational resource (OER) 'Introduction to Digital Art' (ART-020A) textbook discusses how virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence technologies have expanded possibilities in digital art; versions are dated 2024 and 2026. 2026 · medium confidence — source
  • AI/automation in Industrial Technology and Manufacturing Automation programs. The college's Industrial Technologies pages note that automation and artificial intelligence are reshaping manufacturing, and the Manufacturing Automation associate degree and Introduction to Industrial Automation certificate provide training in PLC, process control, robotics, and computer-aided/automation systems (AI integrated into the workforce/automation curriculum rather than as standalone AI courses). undated · medium confidence — source
ResourcesPeoplePolicy
Team/Lead: West Hills College Lemoore
  • Educational Services
  • We've had professional development sessions addressing AI in the classroom. A statement was developed and is in use by several faculty in their syllabus, making students aware of expectations on the use of AI.
  • Discussion panels during convocations and faculty flex day trainings.
  • Internal Trainings by our own faculty.
  • Industrial Technology programs include training in industrial automation