The Environmental Scan, made filterable
Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 3 entries, 18 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 7 source-verified findings (4 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.
Central Valley / Mother Lode
filter to regionEngaged People
- 🆕Faculty Professional Development Hub includes 'teaching AI literacy'. The TLSC page directs faculty to a Faculty Professional Development Hub offering a calendar of (mostly free, online) opportunities and teaching resources on topics including 'teaching AI literacy,' authentic assessment, and Universal Design for Learning. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Faculty-PD page links 'ChatGPT Era' authentic-projects resource. The Human Resources Faculty Professional Development (Faculty-PD) page lists under its Faculty Corner a recorded session titled 'The Need for Real-World and Authentic Projects in a ChatGPT Era' (by Riipen), addressing assignment design in the era of generative AI. undated · medium confidence — source
PeopleResources
Team/Lead: Barstow Community College/Library Faculty and Staff John Macomber, Library Technician II
- Library Faculty and Staff John Macomber, Library Technician II
- Developed library guides: Generative AI
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Policies
- 🆕Academic Honesty policy names AI in plagiarism definition. The 2025-2026 BCC Catalog's Academic Honesty / Academic Standards and Ethics section explicitly defines plagiarism to include 'the intentional use of the ideas or words of another person, Artificial Intelligence (AI)...' and states that turning in 'work that has been written by another person/AI' is plagiarism. 2025 · high confidence — source
Policy
Team/Lead: Barstow Community College
- None found yet. Appears to rely on the Student Code of Conduct.
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Resources
- 🆕AI-powered Study Skills Coach chatbot for students. The Teaching and Learning Support Center (TLSC) page promotes an AI tool for students: 'Feeling Overwhelmed? Chat with our AI-powered Study Skills Coach!' offering on-demand study support alongside human tutoring. 2026 · high confidence — source
- Library Generative AI research guide (LibGuide). The BCC Library maintains a multi-page Generative A.I. LibGuide (barstow.libguides.com/generative-ai) covering ethics, prompt engineering, an AI timeline, image/video/music/chatbot tools, AI in industry, citation guidance (MLA/APA), and a 'Resources for Educators' section addressing data privacy and FERPA. Authored by John Macomber, Library Technician II, and last updated June 16, 2026. 2026 · high confidence — source
- AI guidance for students in LibGuide (citation, academic honesty, Turnitin). The LibGuide's 'AI for Higher Education' content advises students not to submit AI-generated writing as their own, notes that plagiarism-detection tools like Turnitin now check for AI generation, warns that ChatGPT can give incorrect/nonsensical answers, and provides MLA/APA citation guidance for AI tools (updated June 2025). 2026 · high confidence — source
- Ethics philosophy course applies ethical theories to AI. A BCC philosophy/ethics course (PHIL, Ethics) in the 2025-2026 catalog has students apply classical ethical theories (deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics) to 'modern ethical problems, such as artificial intelligence.' AI appears as a topic within an existing course rather than a dedicated AI course. 2025 · medium confidence — source
ResourcesSystems
Team/Lead: Barstow Community College
- Library Guides
- Generative AI
- Ethics
- Prompt Engineering
- AI Timeline
- Image Generators
- Midjourney
- Generative Chat Text
- AI Video
- AI Phone Apps
- AI in Industry
- AI Music & Audio
- AI Research bots
- Generative AI in MLA style: MLA doesn't recommend using an AI tool as an author and has a different structure for how to cite an AI Tool. Update June 2023
- Generative AI in APA style: APA recommends citing the AI tool as the author and in-text citations. Writers should follow the APA Style Guide for structure. Update June 2023