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Spring 2025 baseline · June 2026 update

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Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 3 entries, 11 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 11 source-verified findings (10 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.

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San Bernardino Valley College

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Engaged People
  • 🆕Academic Senate AI Task Force delivers Spring 2026 recommendations. The SBVC AI Task Force, chaired by Jessy Lemieux and charged by the Academic Senate in Spring 2026, brought four recommendations to the Senate (1st read 4/29/26, 2nd read 5/6/26) based on an n=98 faculty survey, review of ASCCC/CCCCO guidance, and comparative analysis of California community college frameworks; it recommends its own continuation to oversee implementation. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Recommended Fall 2026 AI professional development plan. The task force recommends an AI town hall during Fall 2026 convocation week to introduce the framework and gather PD needs, with materials delivered as self-paced online modules, short guides, and tip sheets; survey data flagged compensation/workload (56%) and lack of time (53%) as the top barriers to PD engagement. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕SBVC faculty presenting on AI at 2025 ASCCC Curriculum Institute. Thomas Berry of San Bernardino Valley College was a presenter at the 2025 ASCCC Curriculum Institute on how faculty can leverage AI for writing and enhancing curriculum, including developing course topics and refining student learning objectives and outcomes. 2025 · medium confidence — source
PeopleResources
Team/Lead: San Bernardino Valley College/Senate/Library Faculty
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Policies
  • 🆕SBVC AI Framework for Syllabus Use, Teaching, and Learning v1.0. A voluntary, modular framework recommended to the Senate on 4/29/26 defines three levels of AI use (No AI Use, AI Assistance, AI Integration) with ready-to-adopt course-level and assignment-level sample syllabus language, plus a phrase menu for tailoring permitted uses; faculty can set a course default and override per assignment. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Best Practices statement on academic integrity, assessment design, and AI detection. A companion 'Best Practices for AI in Teaching and Learning' statement affirms faculty purview, calls for reciprocal student/faculty transparency, and urges assessment design (process, reflection, oral demonstration) over detection; it warns, per AP 3775, that AI detection tools are flawed, produce false positives, and show bias against non-native speakers, so a detection result should prompt investigation rather than serve as a final judgment. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕District Administrative Procedure AP 3775 (Artificial Intelligence). SBCCD's district-level AP 3775 (Artificial Intelligence) provides the policy context cited throughout SBVC's framework, covering data privacy, FERPA compliance, third-party vendor approval, ethical use, and detection-tool limitations; it was a Level 3 procedure moving through the district Policies & Procedures Advisory Committee review as of April 17, 2025 and is treated as active policy context in SBVC's April 2026 framework. 2025 · medium confidence — source
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Team/Lead: San Bernardino Valley College
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Resources
  • 🆕Artificial Intelligence (AI) Essential Skills Certificate of Completion. A noncredit certificate in the Computer Information Technology department (2025-2026 catalog) introducing practical applications of AI and Machine Learning tools in business; required courses are CIT 610 (AI Basics), CIT 611 (Introduction to AI Tools), CIT 612 (Machine Learning Basics), and CIT 613 (AI in Action), totaling 88-104 hours, with learning outcomes including implementing equity-minded AI systems. 2025 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Library AI Literacy research guide. An AI Literacy LibGuide maintained by librarian Stacy Rollstin-Weiland (last updated May 12, 2026) defines AI/generative AI/AI literacy, lists 13 generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, DALL-E 3, etc.), warns that tools can hallucinate, advises students to prioritize their instructor's guidelines, and covers ethics, image generation, and AI citation; an additional-resources page lists curated books, eBooks, databases, and web resources. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Companion 'living' resource for AI in teaching. The framework includes a companion resource with a modular phrase menu (grammar/formatting only, early-stage thinking, research/study support, editing/revision), notes on auto-enabled AI features in Google Docs/Word and Grammarly, MLA/APA AI citation guidance, and references to ASCCC, CCCCO HUMANS, and CCCCO Vision 2030 AI frameworks; the task force recommends developing citation examples/FAQ as part of the Fall 2026 PD plan. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • 🆕Equity considerations in AI guidance and curriculum. SBVC's Best Practices statement warns that requiring AI use without providing equitable access can disadvantage students because paid AI versions often outperform free versions, and the AI Essential Skills certificate lists implementing equity-minded AI systems as a learning outcome. 2026 · high confidence — source
  • Winternship paid AI research project for students. Computer Science Associate Professor Jesse Chou participated in the Winternship research project, assisting six SBVC students studying artificial intelligence in what he described as a rare paid undergraduate research opportunity. 2024 · medium confidence — source
ResourcesPeople
Team/Lead: San Bernardino Valley College
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