The Environmental Scan, made filterable
Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 3 entries, 16 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 9 source-verified findings (5 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.
Inland Empire / Desert
filter to regionEngaged People
- AVID 'AI in Higher Education' Professional Learning Series (Spring 2025). RCC's Faculty Development Committee ran a six-session series of free, 3-hour FLEX-credit workshops via Zoom from Feb 21 to May 23, 2025, covering AI basics, critical thinking, AI and the reading process, integrating AI into the writing process, classroom collaboration with AI, and crafting lessons with AI. Faculty were encouraged to set up free ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity accounts before sessions. 2025 · high confidence — source
- Workshop: 'Empowering Critical Thinkers: Leveraging AI in Higher Education'. On March 7, 2025 (9 a.m.-noon via Zoom), the Faculty Development Committee hosted the second session of its AI series on using AI to enhance critical thinking in college classrooms, offering 3 hours of general FLEX credit. 2025 · high confidence — source
- Workshop: 'Re-envisioning Assignments and Assessments with Generative AI'. On Dec 6, 2024 RCC hosted a Zoom workshop led by Dr. Danielle Mirliss on transforming traditional assessments into authentic, generative-AI-integrated assessments, including discipline-specific examples and the evolving role of traditional assessments alongside AI approaches. Fall 2024 · high confidence — source
- RCC Academic Senate review of statewide ASCCC AI resolution. RCC's Academic Senate Dec 9, 2024 agenda packet included, for delegate review ahead of the statewide ASCCC plenary, resolution 108.01 F24 'Selecting and Evaluating Artificial Intelligence for Faculty Use' (a statewide ASCCC resolution, contact Julie Bruno of Sierra College, not an RCC-authored policy), indicating senate-level engagement with AI policy. No standalone RCC AI task force was found. 2024 · medium confidence — source
PeoplePolicy
Team/Lead: Riverside City College/Senates
- Survey responses:
- Instruction
- Person 1 - I am not aware of any departmental AI engagement. Just a few people on campus have started to engage.
- Classified Professionals
- Person 2 - Currently, at RCC, the only individuals engaged in AI efforts meaningfully are myself and a classified colleague. We serve on the classified professional development committee, which I chair, and are the only individuals trying to coordinate efforts around AI learning.
- Senate
- RCC’s Academic Senate on AI policy efforts: “President Scott-Coe: The Norco draft of an AI framework (with notes from colleagues at Moreno Valley College) was shared at District Academic Senate. It is comprehensive as well as flexible, with the goal to create more cohesion across the three colleges/district. Discussion ensued about how to review the new document. Senate agreed to review the Norco/MVC framework draft alongside TLLC’s materials in Fall.”
Policies
- 🆕Library guidance: students must get instructor permission before using AI. The library guide's Citation & Copyright page states that students 'must consult with your instructor before using AI tools such as ChatGPT for assignments' and that 'each class at RCC will have different policies for how and when to use AI tools,' and provides MLA/APA formats for citing generative AI when permitted. 2026 · high confidence — source
PolicyPeople
Team/Lead: Riverside City College
- Not yet found. Appears to rely on Student Conduct Standards: academic integrity
- Sept 2024 Senate Taskforce Recommendations
- Per RCC’s Academic Senate: “President Scott-Coe: The Norco draft of an AI framework (with notes from colleagues at Moreno Valley College) was shared at District Academic Senate. It is comprehensive as well as flexible, with the goal to create more cohesion across the three colleges/district. Discussion ensued about how to review the new document. Senate agreed to review the Norco/MVC framework draft alongside TLLC’s materials in Fall.”
Resources
- 🆕AI professional-learning partnership with AVID and Growing Inland Achievement (GIA). The Spring 2025 'AI in Higher Education' faculty workshop series was a collaboration among RCC's Faculty Development Committee, AVID, and the regional collective-impact organization Growing Inland Achievement (GIA), open to part-time and full-time faculty. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕RCC Library 'Artificial Intelligence (AI)' research guide. The RCC Library maintains a multi-page AI research guide (library.rcc.edu/ai) with tabs for What is AI?, Books on AI, Free AI Tools, AI Literacy, Citation & Copyright, Equity & AI, Podcasts, and Organizations & Initiatives; it was last updated April 10, 2026, showing ongoing maintenance. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AI Literacy guidance using the ROBOT framework. The library guide's AI Literacy page teaches evaluation of AI tools via the ROBOT framework (Reliability, Objective, Bias, Owner, Type) developed by The LibrAIry (Hervieux & Wheatley). 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Library 'Equity & AI' page on bias and systems of oppression in AI. The library guide includes an Equity & AI section featuring an interactive H5P object on large language models and a curated reading list on bias, racism, and 'systems of oppression' in generative AI (e.g., DALL-E and ChatGPT). 2026 · high confidence — source
ResourcesPeopleSystems
Team/Lead: Riverside City College
- PD per survey:
- Our Distance Ed department provided one workshop on generative AI basics but most of our efforts have been offered by the classified professional development committee and specifically one classified professional who facilitated three workshops.
- Person 1 - We haven't. I took an interest in AI and started going to AI conferences and training, and I now present on AI at conferences and other colleges. Now, I work with the professional development coordinator to bring AI ideas to RCC as much as possible, but it's slow going.
- Person 2 - The professional development coordinator and I have focused on AI chatbots and generative AI applications.
- Person 2 - I provided training on prompting techniques for generative AI and an overview of AI in general. I am also doing an April AI Bingo event to get people involved.
- The classified professional development committee plans to launch an AI April campaign. Some individuals are now using AI in their day-to-day tasks, but that is only two or three of us so far.