The Environmental Scan, made filterable
Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 2 entries, 9 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
filter to regionEngaged People
- 🆕COM AI Collective (grant-funded community of practice). The College of Marin Professional Learning 'Technology and Innovation' page states the AI Collective 'is a grant funded community of practice at College of Marin that is currently meeting to explore AI policy and models. More information to come.' 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Flex Week Fall 2025 session introducing the AI Collective. The Fall 2025 Flex Week schedule lists 'Come Learn about the COM AI Collective!' on Aug 20, 2025 (presenter Stacey Lince), describing a Community of Practice focused on thoughtfully incorporating generative AI into teaching, learning, and institutional workflows at College of Marin. Fall 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Flex Week Spring 2026 AI workshop on reducing AI misuse. The Spring 2026 Flex Week schedule lists 'Building a Multi-pronged Approach to Reducing AI Misuse' on Jan 12, 2026 (presenters Stacey Lince, Anna Mills, Wendy St. John), covering authentic engagement design, accountability measures, and guiding students toward pedagogical AI uses. 2026 · high confidence — source
- Internal AI group led by CIO Patrick Ekoue-Totou. College of Marin has an internal AI group directed by Patrick Ekoue-Totou (the college's chief information officer / head of IT), reflecting on how best to teach AI literacy as part of digital literacy. 2024 · high confidence — source
Policies
Policy
Team/Lead: College of Marin
- Policy not yet found. Appears to rely on existing Student Code of Conduct
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Resources
- 🆕Plan 2030 strategic objectives on AI. The College of Marin Plan 2030 strategic plan includes an implementation strategy to 'Explore AI and large language models to enhance teaching' and an objective to 'Establish AI Community of Practice to ensure responsible and innovative use of AI across the college.' 2025 · high confidence — source
- PAIRR / California Education Learning Lab AI Grand Challenge grant partner. College of Marin is a named partner institution in the $1.5M 'Peer & AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR)' project led by UC Davis under the California Education Learning Lab AI Grand Challenge, aimed at addressing equity gaps in writing skills and AI literacy via generative-AI-supported writing instruction. 2025 · high confidence — source
- MyEssayFeedback.ai used in English writing courses. Students in College of Marin English writing classes receive AI essay feedback through MyEssayFeedback.ai, a tool that gives feedback for students to reflect on rather than rewriting essays; instructor Anna Mills serves as lead advisor for instructional design on the tool. 2024 · high confidence — source
- Faculty AI literacy leadership (Anna Mills). College of Marin English/Humanities faculty member Anna Mills serves on the MLA/CCCC Task Force on Writing and AI, co-launched the 'Exploring AI Pedagogy' teaching reflections collection, maintains 'AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing' resources, and leads faculty development on critical AI literacy and academic integrity. 2025 · high confidence — source
ResourcesPeopleSystems
Team/Lead: College of Marin/IT Director and English Faculty
- College of Marin
- Professor Anna Mills on Adapting College Writing for the Age of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT
- English Faculty Anna Mills using within courses for feedback: MyEssayFeedback.ai
- Professor Anna Mills AAC&U MLA/CCCC Task Force on Writing and AI, where she helped launch a collection of teaching reflections, Exploring AI Pedagogy. Her resource area “AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry”
- CUNY Center for Professional Development, Anna Mills, Teaching with AI: Building Critical AI Literacy While Advancing Existing Learning Outcomes
- Slides
- Recording
- College of Marin had participating representation in PlayLab in November Inaugural cohort with UC Berkeley
5 linked resource(s) — show status
- https://criticalai.org/2023/01/17/critical-ai-adapting-college-writing-for-the-age-of-large-language-models-such-as-chatgpt-some-next-steps-for-educators/ fetched
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpaZjXzH-CE fetched
- https://wac.colostate.edu/repository/collections/ai-text-generators-and-teaching-writing-starting-points-for-inquiry/ fetched
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18Goaqyp5oHDW_cKD5cw7D59KxANrO7l_tQ68SFrDEzA/edit#slide=id.g2b2b02af8fa_1_150 fetched
- https://exploringaipedagogy.hcommons.org/ fetched