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San Diego City College
Region: San Diego / Imperial
At a glance
San Diego City College's Academic Senate convened an AI in Academia ad hoc workgroup in spring 2024 that produced a comprehensive 10-page position paper with 14 recommendations—approved by the Senate in April 2025 and presented to the district board—calling for a permanent AI workgroup, compensated departmental AI Teaching Leaders, and revision of the academic integrity policy to address generative AI. Librarians Barbara Ring and Jessica Wang lead student-facing AI-literacy workshops and maintain research guides, while the college participates in district initiatives including the AAAI micro-credential and AAC&U Institute; faculty retain autonomy to set course-level AI policies, and the college has run more than five Instructional Improvement workshops plus an ongoing Community of Practice.
Updated Scan Findings
11 new 🆕· 15 source-verified findings from the updated web scanAI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines · 6
- 🆕Academic Senate AI in Academia ad hoc workgroup + position paper. The City College Academic Senate's 'AI in Academia' ad hoc workgroup (convened Spring 2024) authored a 10-page AI position paper, 'AI Use and Misuse: Recommendations to Identify and Address Outcomes and Risks for Our Students and Faculty,' dated March 24, 2025. It outlines areas of concern and 14 recommendations, including establishing a permanent AI workgroup and naming a compensated AI Teaching Leader in each department. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Academic Senate approved the AI position paper (April 2025). The City College Academic Senate voted to approve the AI position paper at its April 14, 2025 meeting, and Senate President Mona Alsoraimi-Espiritu presented it to the SDCCD Board of Trustees on April 17, 2025. Reported next steps included organizing workshops and updating the online teaching certification. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Faculty 'Ethical Use of AI in the Classroom' presentation by librarian Jessica Wang. A City College Professional Learning slide deck, 'AI in the Classroom' by librarian Jessica Wang (jwang@sdccd.edu, attributing Dr. Alison Gurganus), covers AI policy in syllabi, AI usage statistics, the unreliability and inequitable impact of AI detectors, fostering a culture of honesty, what AI literacy is, and ethical considerations; it references the SDCC Student Code of Conduct and Honest Academic Conduct policy. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕SDCCD selected for AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum (City College on the team). On Sept 23, 2024 SDCCD announced it was one of 124 institutions nationwide chosen for the AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum (running through April 11, 2025), with all four colleges participating; the district team named City College's Mohammed Ali Ani, tasked with developing AI action plans for pedagogy and curriculum. Fall 2024 · high confidence — source
- 🆕SDCCD InnovAItion Day 2026 with City College student participation. SDCCD's districtwide InnovAItion Day 2026, held March 20, 2026 (8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.) at the College of Continuing Education North City campus, featured lightning talks, breakout sessions and panels on responsible AI use; City College cybersecurity/cyber-defense students participated, including Rodrigo Lopez moderating a student-led panel. 2026 · high confidence — source
- Five-plus Instructional Improvement workshops and ongoing Community of Practice. Per the position paper, over the year preceding March 2025 the AI in Academia workgroup facilitated 'more than five Instructional Improvement workshops' and offers an ongoing Community of Practice workshop for instructors. Recommendation 12 calls for continued compensated faculty development and flex workshops on AI use and misuse. 2025 · high confidence — source
AI Policies · 3
- 🆕Position paper recommends revising the Academic Integrity (Honest Academic Conduct) policy to cover GenAI. Recommendation 4 of the position paper urges the college to revise its academic honesty policy to add 'Misrepresentation: presenting information, images, or writing created by text-generating software (GenAI) as your own words and ideas.' The publicly posted Honest Academic Conduct policy (AP 3100.03) still carries a 2009 date and does not yet contain AI language, so the revision does not appear to be reflected in the posted policy as of mid-2026. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Position paper recommends instructors include an AI policy in syllabi. Recommendation 6 encourages instructors to include a detailed AI-expectations paragraph in their syllabi and to hold a class discussion, noting many students do not consider GenAI misuse to be 'cheating.' Recommendation 5 supports academic freedom and discipline-specific decisions rather than a one-size-fits-all policy. 2025 · high confidence — source
- District AI faculty framework applicable to City College (faculty autonomy, three options). SDCCD's AI faculty-resources page (which governs City College) states 'Faculty are free to set their own policies regulating the use of generative AI tools in their courses,' offers three syllabus options (full use, conditional/assistive use, no use), emphasizes process-based assignments over detection, and provides sample syllabus statements, an AAAI student guidance resource, and district-supported tools (Khanmigo, Nectir, PlayLab). 2025 · high confidence — source
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 6
- 🆕Library AI-literacy workshops for students (2026). In spring 2026 the SDCC Library ran student AI-literacy sessions including a workshop 'How to Fact Check AI Answers' led by instruction librarian Jessica Wang, teaching students to verify AI output and apply media literacy; the library also points students to its AI tools page and the SDCCD AI student guide. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕SDCCD AAAI Micro-Credential available to City College students/staff. The district's Academic Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) micro-credential is a five-module, two-to-four-hour generative-AI course open to all SDCCD students and faculty/staff (including City College), awarding a digital badge and certification. The page references Spring 2026 with 904 participants and 104 badges, and was developed with SDSU and UC San Diego via the Equitable AI Alliance with support from the California Education Learning Lab's AI Grand Challenge grant. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕California Education Learning Lab AI Grand Challenge grant supports district AI work. The SDCCD AAAI micro-credential page states the initiative was developed through the Equitable AI Alliance (with SDSU and UC San Diego) 'with support from The California Education Learning Lab's AI Grand Challenge' grant. This is a district-level grant whose programming is available to City College students and staff. 2026 · medium confidence — source
- 🆕AI integrated into business administration/statistics instruction. City College business administration and statistics professor Mohammed Al Ani has incorporated AI into coursework, with some final projects in his business administration classes partially generated by AI, per the City Times coverage of how City College and SDCCD are approaching AI. 2025 · medium confidence — source
- SDCC Professional Learning AI Resources hub. The college's Professional Learning office maintains an 'A.I Resources' page linking the Academic Senate AI Position Paper (2025), the CCC Chancellor's Office AI resources, recorded SDCCD Office of Innovation sessions (e.g., AI Literacy, Ethical Dilemmas and AI, Crafting Effective Prompts), the open book 'Teaching with AI' by Bowen & Watson, and CVC/@ONE generative-AI courses; it flags bias and hallucinations as core concerns. 2025 · high confidence — source
- Library 'AI Tools' research guide (For Teachers section). The SDCC Library maintains an 'AI (Artificial Intelligence) Tools' LibGuide (last updated Dec 1, 2025) covering how AI works, limitations, prompting, evaluating output, citation, and a 'For Teachers' section with syllabus-policy suggestions, assignment-design tools (e.g., MagicSchool), making assignments 'more resistant to AI,' and notes on AI-detection tool reliability. Librarian Barbara Ring is the AI resource contact. 2025 · high confidence — source
Spring 2025 baseline
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines
V2030: PeopleV2030: Resources
Team/Lead: San Diego City College/Library Faculty Barbara Ring
- See above-noted district approach
- Library Faculty Barbara Ring
- AI (Artificial Intelligence) Tools
- How does AI work?
- Issues with AI
- How do I use AI? Tools
- How Can I Use AI Better? Prompts
- How do I evaluate AI?
- How do I cite AI?
- First Steps
- Make sure your teacher will accept the use of an AI tool. Ask them if there is a way they would like you to cite it.
- When should you cite AI? What you would any other source. Also, if you use it to help write or outline your paper, mention it in some way.
- Library Resources on AI
- For Teachers
- Other AI Libguides
- Library Hel
- Survey: There are then pockets through the colleges in the following disciplines in which I am aware: English and languages, ICT, Business, noncredit, career services
AI Policies
V2030: Policy
Team/Lead: San Diego City College
- Please review the above-noted SDCCD approach
AI Courses, Tools & Resources
V2030: ResourcesV2030: People
Team/Lead: San Diego City College
- PD
- Library Faculty Barbara Ring
- AI (Artificial Intelligence) Tools
- Please see above-noted district approaches.
Entities from the knowledge graph
college: San Diego City Collegeorganization: San Diego City College Library Facultyperson: Barbara Ringpolicy: SDCCD AI Approach
Links & artifacts
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Contacts at this college
| Name / Role | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
BR Barbara Ring Library Faculty | bring@sdccd.edu | (619) 388-3319 |