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Spring 2025 baseline · June 2026 update

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Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 3 entries, 24 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 6 source-verified findings (3 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.

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Engaged People
  • 🆕Faculty PD session: 'Engaging Your Students in Honest Discussions about AI'. On January 10, 2025, Reedley College hosted a faculty professional development presentation, 'Important Conversations: Engaging Your Students in Honest Discussions about AI,' led by Dr. Lew Ludwig (Denison University), covering generative-AI capabilities and classroom strategies for AI discussions. January 2025 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕President Jerry Buckley on AI-driven workforce reskilling. Reedley College President Dr. Jerry Buckley publicly framed AI as a workforce-transformation driver, saying colleges must become lifelong-reskilling 'facilities' and that 'we've got to figure out what those new certificates and degrees are going to look like,' citing competency-based education to help adults retrain for AI-influenced jobs. September 2025 · high confidencesource
  • 'Exploring the World of Artificial Intelligence' faculty workshop series. Reedley College ran a multi-part professional development workshop series, 'Exploring The World of Artificial Intelligence: A Reedley College Professional Development Workshop Series,' documented as a YouTube playlist of virtual AI workshops (Reedley invited Fresno City College faculty to participate). undated (pre-2025 baseline series) · medium confidencesource
Policies
PolicyResourcesSystems
Team/Lead: Reedley College
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Resources
  • 🆕CELA 314 'Integrating AI into Teaching' educator course. Reedley College's Continuing Education Learning Academy (CELA) offers a noncredit/professional-development course, CELA 314 / TEC-1922 'Integrating AI into Teaching' (instructor Amanda Taintor), equipping educators to integrate AI into teaching, personalize instruction, and address ethical considerations and AI over-reliance in assessment. 2025/2026 (currently listed) · high confidencesource
  • Library research guide on AI and ChatGPT. The Reedley College Library maintains a 'ChatGPT and AI' subject/course guide with four sections: 'What is AI and ChatGPT?', 'Academia and AI', 'Citing AI', and 'Additional Resources' (podcasts, books like 'Race after Technology' and 'Algorithms of Oppression'). The guide explicitly addresses citing AI and classroom impacts. 2023 (last updated July 12, 2023) · high confidencesource
  • 'Citing AI' and 'Academia and AI' library guide tabs. Within the library AI guide, dedicated 'Citing AI' and 'Academia and AI' tabs discuss how/when to cite large language models per MLA/APA/Chicago and surface academic-integrity concerns about AI-generated student work. 2023 (last updated July 12, 2023) · high confidencesource
ResourcesPeople
Team/Lead: Reedley College
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