The Environmental Scan, made filterable
Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 3 entries, 6 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 8 source-verified findings (4 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.
Bay Area
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- 🆕AI Task Team delivered Final Presentation to Academic Senate (May 2025). The Academic Senate archive lists an 'AI Task Team Final Presentation' under the May 12, 2025 meeting, following an AI Task Team Update (Feb. 3, 2025) and rounds of senate feedback in spring 2025, indicating the task team completed its charge in spring 2025. It is not listed among the Senate's current standing committees, consistent with an ad hoc task team that has concluded. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕'Human-First Teaching with AI' session by LMC-affiliated faculty. A November 6, 2025 virtual session 'Human-First Teaching with AI' was presented by E. Nidia Gonzalez, described as a community-college faculty member transitioning from Los Medanos College, covering AI use to automate routine teaching tasks, randomized Canvas assessments for integrity, and teaching responsible AI literacy. The hosting calendar is San Diego Mesa College's, so this is a regional event rather than an LMC-hosted program. 2025 · low confidence — source
- Proposal to create AI & Academic Integrity Task Team. The Academic Senate considered a 'Proposal for AI Academic Integrity Task Team' (dated Oct. 15, 2024) on its Oct. 21, 2024 agenda, charging a group to examine AI's impact on academic honesty, develop assessment strategies, create educational resources, and establish institutional standards balancing innovation and integrity. Fall 2024 · high confidence — source
PeoplePolicy
Team/Lead: LMC Academic Senate/AI Task Team Professor Janith Norman and Professor Roseann Erwin
- Fall 2023 MC Proposed formation AI and Academic Integrity Council
- Cites Sacramento City College Proposed AI Task Force Charter
- Fall 2024, AI Task Team, seeking funding for AI resources from Chronicle of Higher Education, Professor Roseann Erwin (Librarian)
Policies
- 🆕District-wide 4CD AI Guidance Language reviewed by LMC Senate. A Contra Costa Community College District (4CD) 'AI Guidance Language' document (PDF metadata created March 4, 2025, modified April 2025) was brought to the LMC Academic Senate for review and feedback across its March 10 and April 14, 2025 meetings. 2025 · high confidence — source
- Official academic integrity policy predates and omits AI. The college's posted Academic Integrity/Dishonesty Policy (approved December 2004) defines cheating, plagiarism, fabrication, and use of 'unauthorized materials,' but contains no specific mention of artificial intelligence, generative AI, or ChatGPT. Fall 2024 · high confidence — source
PolicyPeopleResources
Team/Lead: LMC/AI Taskforce/ Professor Roseann Erwin
- Policy not yet found. Senate reviewing above-linked district policy.
- Senate also has an AI Taskforce, seeking funding for AI resources from Chronicle of Higher Education, Professor Roseann Erwin (Librarian)
Resources
- 🆕Student newspaper coverage of AI in education. LMC's student paper, the Experience, has published opinion/news pieces on generative AI in the classroom, including 'Welcome to school, ChatGPT!' (Nov. 7, 2025) and 'The use of AI will fry your brain' (March 4, 2025), reflecting active campus discourse on AI. 2025 · high confidence — source
- Sample AI/ChatGPT syllabus statements for faculty. LMC's Distance Education 'Forms & Resources' page provides faculty with tiered sample generative-AI syllabus statements (Open/Allowed, Conditional/Restrictive, Closed/Banned) plus AI citation guidance, drawing on the ASCCC 'Academic Integrity Policies in the Age of AI' resource (Spring 2024) and the Chancellor's Office 'Generative AI and the Future of Teaching and Learning' (July 2024). Page footer dated 5/28/26. 2026 · high confidence — source
- Non-credit AI / machine-learning continuing-education courses. LMC's career-training (ed2go) portal advertises an 'AI - Artificial Intelligence Programs' catalog of self-paced, non-credit online courses in computer science / AI and machine learning. These are continuing-education offerings rather than for-credit, transfer-level AI courses. 2025 · medium confidence — source
PeopleResources
Team/Lead: LMC/Librarians
- Request from Library team for funding for subscriptions