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Santa Rosa Junior College

Region: Bay Area

At a glance

SRJC established a 44-member, tri-chaired District-wide Generative AI Task Force in fall 2024, meeting monthly through May 2026 to assess AI across learning, services, and operations and deliver actionable recommendations to College Council. The Academic Senate recommended AI syllabus statements to all faculty in March 2025 and forwarded academic integrity policy work (AP3775) through the administrative procedure process. The college has launched two new AI courses—BAD 81 "AI in Business" (Fall 2025) and CS 102 "Introduction to AI Tools" (Fall 2026)—and maintains a Distance Education AI resources hub curating external training pathways and assessment tools.

Updated Scan Findings

8 new 🆕· 12 source-verified findings from the updated web scan
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines · 4
  • 🆕District-wide Generative AI (GenAI) Task Force. SRJC established a 44-member, tri-chaired (Superintendent/President, Academic Senate President, Classified Senate President designees) District-wide GenAI Task Force conducting a year-long assessment of GenAI in learning, student services, operations and decision-making, meeting the fourth Friday monthly through May 2026 and delivering a final report with actionable recommendations to College Council. 2025 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕External GenAI professional development pathways. SRJC points faculty to external GenAI professional development including the CVC @ONE 'Generative AI in the Classroom' course (2-week self-paced / 4-week facilitated), Stanford's AI Teaching Guide, University of Michigan-Flint GenAI Prompt Literacy, and the CMU/College of the Canyons 'AI for Learning' course, plus instructional design consultations for assessment redesign. 2025 · medium confidencesource
  • Call for GenAI Task Force participation. An August 20, 2024 news announcement called for participation in the GenAI Task Force (application deadline Sept 5, 2024), charging it to research GenAI applications, assess equity/ethics implications, develop academic integrity best practices, and recommend district-wide policies, operating through May 2026. 2024 · high confidencesource
  • Academic Senate GenAI Task Force lineage and recommendations. The Academic Senate established an AI Taskforce on Oct 2, 2024, discussed its recommendations Dec 4, 2024, and on April 30, 2025 forwarded recommendations recommending creation of the District-wide GenAI Taskforce; remaining Recommendations 5-9 were forwarded in full to the district taskforce. 2025 · high confidencesource
AI Policies · 2
  • 🆕Recommended AI syllabus statements to all faculty. Per the Academic Senate's annotated recommendations, Recommendation Four's suggested syllabus statements on GenAI were recommended by the Academic Senate to all faculty on March 12, 2025, with ongoing work to surface them in multiple online locations; faculty are not required to adopt an AI policy. 2025 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕Academic integrity AI policy development (AP3775 / AP2410 process). Academic-integrity work related to AI is being addressed through the EPCC subcommittee and the administrative-procedure process begun in Spring 2025; Senate materials reference a district academic integrity policy on artificial intelligence (AP3775) recommended by the Academic Senate Feb 19, 2025 with updates reported May 7, 2025. 2025 · medium confidencesource
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 6
  • 🆕BAD 81 'AI in Business' course (Fall 2025). SRJC approved a new course BAD 81 'Artificial Intelligence in Business' (3 units, last reviewed 12/9/2024, effective Fall 2025, CSU-transferable, certificate-applicable) covering history/scope of AI, ethics, generative AI (text and visual/video), predictive/analytic AI, Big Data, and AI in HR; proposed and taught by business professor Ryan Wenzel. 2025 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕CS 102 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Tools' (Fall 2026). The Computer Studies department added a new course, CS 102 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Tools' (3 units, first version, term effective Fall 2026), a hands-on course covering generative AI tools, productivity, content generation, AI personal assistants and personalization, with no prior AI experience required. Fall 2026 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕Canvas built-in generative AI features. Academic Senate materials (Aug 20 and Sept 3, 2025) discuss three new generative AI features in the Canvas LMS that are opt-in and activated individually by instructors, with debate over whether the Senate should address Canvas-based AI teaching tools and references to ASCCC's rubric for evaluating AI tools. 2025 · medium confidencesource
  • 🆕Summer 2026 CS 50A section on agentic AI coding. SRJC is offering a special section of CS 50A: Web Development 1 in Summer 2026 covering agentic AI coding tools and techniques, per the Computer Studies department. Summer 2026 · low confidencesource
  • Distance Education Generative AI Resources hub. SRJC's Office of Distance Education maintains a Generative AI Resources page (contact Instructional Designer Dr. Lauren Mitchell) compiling AI detection/assessment-security tools (Turnitin AI detection licensed Spring 2023, Proctorio, Canvas quiz security, Hypothes.is), syllabus/academic-integrity guidance (ASCCC sample statements, UC San Diego, UT Austin, Leon Furze AI Assessment Scale), and external training (CVC @ONE, Stanford, U-M Flint, CMU/College of the Canyons). 2025 · high confidencesource
  • Turnitin AI detection licensed. SRJC purchased/licensed Turnitin's AI detection tool in Spring 2023, listed as a current assessment-security resource for faculty alongside Proctorio remote proctoring. Spring 2023 · high confidencesource

Spring 2025 baseline

AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines

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Team/Lead: SRJC Academic Senate/AI Taskforce/ Johannes A.A.M. van Gorp, Ph.D. Department of Social Sciences

AI Policies

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Team/Lead: SRJC Academic Senate

AI Courses, Tools & Resources

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Team/Lead: SRJC/Academic Senate
  • AI Resource Page
  • SRJC had participating representation in PlayLab in November Inaugural cohort with UC Berkeley

Entities from the knowledge graph

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Links & artifacts

Contacts at this college

Name / RoleEmailPhone
JG
Johannes A.A.M. van Gorp
Ph.D., Department of Social Sciences
jvangorp@santarosa.edu(707) 778-3962
LN
Lauren Nahas
lnahas@santarosa.edu