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Orange Coast College
Region: Orange County
At a glance
Orange Coast College's Academic Senate has engaged with AI through presentations—including Senate President Rendell Drew's Fall 2024 summary of the Future AI Summit and a Spring 2025 session where Golden West College shared its three-option faculty AI policy—but has not adopted a formal college-wide AI policy or task force. The college operates under a default course policy (articulated in library guides) that prohibits generative AI unless instructors explicitly permit and require citation, with expectations set at the syllabus level rather than in the Academic Honesty policy. OCC Library maintains research guides for students and faculty covering AI concepts, citation standards, and academic integrity, while the district deployed AI fraud-detection tools in Spring 2025 to combat financial-aid abuse.
Updated Scan Findings
3 new 🆕· 8 source-verified findings from the updated web scanAI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines · 2
- 🆕Academic Senate AI presentation by Senate President Rendell Drew. At the Oct. 1, 2024 Academic Senate meeting, Senate President Rendell Drew presented takeaways from the Future AI Summit (held at De Anza College), covering overcoming AI fears, suggested principles for AI policies, ethics/transparency, and faculty professional development, prompting senator discussion of AI and academic integrity. No formal OCC AI policy or task force was adopted at that meeting. Fall 2024 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Senate session on AI policy models (Golden West College presentation). At the April 15, 2025 OCC Academic Senate meeting, Golden West College VP Bouzar presented how GWC approached AI in the classroom, including GWC's three-option faculty AI policy (no use / limited use / open use) with required citation, and the Chancellor's-Office-sponsored 'Nectar AI' pilot. This was shared with OCC's senate as a model; the policy described is GWC's, not an adopted OCC policy. 2025 · high confidence — source
AI Policies · 2
- Default course policy: generative AI not allowed unless instructor permits. The Library 'Generative AI Tools' guide states the default course policy is that 'using ChatGPT and other Generative AI may not be used unless the instructor allows it in their course policies,' directing students to consult instructors before assignments and to cite any permitted AI use. 2026 · high confidence — source
- Academic Honesty policy does not address AI. OCC's 2026-2027 catalog Academic Honesty policy contains no mention of artificial intelligence, generative AI, or ChatGPT; it relies on general Student Code of Conduct language. Faculty AI expectations are handled at the syllabus level rather than in the formal integrity policy. 2026 · high confidence — source
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 4
- 🆕AI used to detect fake/ghost student accounts (financial-aid fraud). California community colleges, including those in the Coast Community College District, deployed AI fraud-detection tools (statewide tool 'Lightleap') beginning around Spring 2025 to identify 'ghost students' creating fake accounts to collect financial aid; the OCC student paper reported these tools in effect since Spring 2025 and EdSource documented dramatic fraud reductions at district sibling Golden West College. 2025 · medium confidence — source
- Library Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) research guide. OCC Library maintains a multi-page 'Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)' LibGuide for students covering AI concepts, how to cite AI-generated content (APA/MLA/Chicago/IEEE), warnings that AI fabricates information and citations, and library research support. 2026 · high confidence — source
- Library 'AI - Faculty' guide with syllabus and academic-integrity guidance. An 'AI - Faculty' LibGuide compiles guidance for instructors, including direction to include AI use expectations and citation requirements in course syllabi, plus academic-integrity and professional-development resources (ASCCC, MIT, Turnitin AI tools). It references a district AI policy as 'CCCD: AP 3903' (see caveats). 2026 · medium confidence — source
- No dedicated AI/machine-learning courses found in catalog. Review of OCC's 2026-2027 catalog course descriptions for Information Technology (IT), Computer Information Systems (CIS), and Computer & High Technology (CHT) found no courses with 'artificial intelligence,' 'machine learning,' 'generative AI,' or 'data science' in their titles or descriptions. 2026 · medium confidence — source
Spring 2025 baseline
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines
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Team/Lead: Orange Coast College/Senate/President Lee Gordon/OCC political science professor and President Emerita Vesna Marcina/ Cyndee Ely/OCC sociology department head and professor Jessica Alab/Academic Senate iSecretary Marilyn Kennedy/Library Faculty Erin Gratz
- Academic Senate
- Sept 2023 Academic senate discusses problematic use of AI in classrooms
- Computer Science Department
- Actively involved in AI through curriculum development and course offerings
- Librarian-generated Library Guides Erin Gratz
- AI Artificial Intelligence
AI Policies
V2030: Policy
Team/Lead: Orange Coast College
- Not yet found. Appears to rely on the student code of conduct academic honesty policy.
AI Courses, Tools & Resources
V2030: PeopleV2030: Resources
Team/Lead: Orange Coast College
- PD
- OCC has hosted events such as "Future-Proof Yourself and Your Students in an AI & XR World" to provide faculty with insights into AI technologies and their applications in education.
- Library Resources: Offers access to AI research tools and databases
- Courses
- Computer Science Department
- Offers courses covering programming languages and data structures foundational to AI.
- Computer & High Technology Department: Provides courses on cloud infrastructure and ethical hacking, relevant to AI studies. catalog.cccd.edu;
Entities from the knowledge graph
college: Orange Coast Collegeinitiative: Future-Proof Yourself and Your Students in an AI & XR Worldorganization: Orange Coast College Academic Senateorganization: Orange Coast College Computer Science Departmentorganization: Orange Coast College Libraryorganization: Orange Coast College Computer & High Technology Departmentperson: Lee Gordonperson: Vesna Marcinaperson: Cyndee Elyperson: Jessica Alabperson: Marilyn Kennedyperson: Erin Gratzpolicy: Orange Coast College Student Code of Conduct Academic Honesty Policy
Links & artifacts
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines · 5
- https://www.coastreportonline.com/news/article_aaa319d8-4ba7-11ee-b8b5-a7294991a9e0.html fetched
- https://libguides.orangecoastcollege.edu/prf.php?id=5d75e373-7cdb-11ed-9922-0ad758b798c3 archived
- https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/president-emeritus fetched
- https://libguides.orangecoastcollege.edu/AI fetched
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250122004739/https://libguides.orangecoastcollege.edu/prf.php?id=5d75e373-7cdb-11ed-9922-0ad758b798c3 fetched
AI Policies · 1
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 2
Contacts at this college
| Name / Role | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
LG Lee Gordon Academic Senate President | lgordon@occ.cccd.edu | (714) 432-0202 |
VM Vesna Marcina Political Science Professor and Academic Senate President Emerita | vmarcina@occ.cccd.edu | |
CE Cyndee Ely Faculty | cely@occ.cccd.edu | |
JA Jessica Alab Sociology Department Head and Professor | jalabi@occ.cccd.edu | |
MK Marilyn Kennedy Academic Senate Secretary | mkennedy@occ.cccd.edu | |
EG Erin Gratz Library Faculty | egratz@occ.cccd.edu | (714) 432-0202 |
GE Gabriela Ernsberger | gernsberger@occ.cccd.edu | |
JF — | jfawcett@occ.cccd.edu |