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San Joaquin Delta College
Region: Central Valley / Mother Lode
At a glance
San Joaquin Delta College's AI Task Force, now chaired by VP Augustine Chavez, is working with the Academic Senate and Distance Education Committee to amend administrative procedures requiring every course syllabus to include an AI-use policy; the Senate passed standardized three-option language in April 2025. The Professional Development Center runs an ongoing AI Learning Lab led by Kerry Steers, offering hands-on sessions on tools from Copilot to NotebookLM, plus a Community of Practice on AI-resilient assignment design. A May 2026 federal grant of $850,000 will fund a cybersecurity hub at the Mountain House campus incorporating AI curriculum.
Updated Scan Findings
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- 🆕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
AI Policies · 3
- 🆕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
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 3
- 🆕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
Spring 2025 baseline
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines
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Team/Lead: San Joaquin Delta College/AI Taskforce/Student Services Deans/Library Faculty Loren Valterza
- Feb 2024 AI Taskforce Developed
- Computer Science Department is actively involved in AI efforts, offering courses that cover programming and network operations.
- May 2024 Library Guide Citing Artificial Intelligence Sources
- Plagiarism Prevention Tools, including Turnitin Secured
- Student services faculty and staff supporting with referrals created by plagiarism prevention tools has asked instructional faculty to develop policy
AI Policies
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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
AI Courses, Tools & Resources
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Entities from the knowledge graph
college: San Joaquin Delta Collegeorganization: AI Taskforceorganization: Student Services Deansorganization: Computer Science Departmentorganization: San Joaquin Delta College Student Services Faculty and Stafforganization: San Joaquin Delta College Instructional Facultyperson: Loren Valterzapolicy: San Joaquin Delta College Student Code of Conduct
Links & artifacts
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines · 4
- https://libguides.deltacollege.edu/prf.php?id=5cf0157a-7cdb-11ed-9922-0ad758b798c3 fetched
- https://libguides.deltacollege.edu/c.php?g=1395747 fetched
- https://deltacollegian.net/2024/02/22/delta-looking-to-the-future-forming-ai-task-force/ fetched
- https://deltacollege.edu/academics/library/plagiarism-prevention blocked
AI Policies · 1
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 1
Contacts at this college
| Name / Role | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
LV Loren Valterza Library Faculty | loren.valterza@deltacollege.edu | (209) 954-5146 |
MB Melissa Bailey | melissa.bailey@deltacollege.edu | |
JC Jan Chansilaphet | jan.chansilaphet@deltacollege.edu | |
EU Estefan Urrea | estefan.urrea@deltacollege.edu | |
VP Vanessa Plaza | vanessa.plaza@deltacollege.edu | |
SV Susan Vang | susan.vang@deltacollege.edu | |
JD Jennifer Dionne | jennifer.dionne@deltacollege.edu | |
TW Tammy White | tammy.white@deltacollege.edu | |
CN Claudia Navarro | claudia.navarro@deltacollege.edu | |
LS Leticia Samson | leticia.samson@deltacollege.edu | |
DM Donna Montanez | donna.montanez@deltacollege.edu |