The Environmental Scan, made filterable
Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 3 entries, 29 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 10 source-verified findings (5 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.
South Central Coast
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- 🆕Faculty AI Symposium and Gemini/NotebookLM training. The FRC ran an AI Symposium (4-17-2026) featuring NotebookLM, a Gemini & NotebookLM Education Features workshop, and provides 'Generative AI End User Training 101/102 for CCC' modules, plus earlier sessions like 'AI Tools for the Classroom' (Fall 2024) and 'Checking for ChatGPT' (2023, 2024). 2026 · high confidence — source
- Instructional Technology Committee oversees AI policy. The ITC, a standing committee of the Academic Senate chaired by Laurie Vasquez, in cooperation with the Senate 'establishes policy that impacts new use of AI technologies' and tracks/reviews generative AI tools and AI detection tools and their classroom impact; it reports up to the District Technology Committee and College Planning Council. undated · high confidence — source
PeoplePolicyResourcesSystems
Team/Lead: Santa Barbara City College/Senate/ IT Committee/Faculty Resource Center/Library Faculty Ellen Carey
- Faculty Resource Center developed AI PD resources and sample syllabus language
- Sample language and guidance
- AI / Chat GPT Informational Forum
- Information Technology Committee functions and responsibilities, including:
- “In cooperation with Senate, establishes policy that impacts new use of AI technologies
- Tracks and reviews the development of generative AI tools and their impact in the learning space as well as the development and efficacy of AI detection tools.”
- Library Faculty: AI in Education Research Guide
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- https://www.sbcc.edu/frc/ai.php fetched
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- https://libguides.sbcc.edu/ai fetched
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- https://www.canva.com/design/DAFclM97X1w/-ChxLDE62_En9VEJ_IRUHw/view blocked
Policies
- Academic integrity guidance on AI-generated work. SBCC guidance states students may use AI as a research tool but must not substitute the substance of their work with AI output; claiming AI-generated work as one's own is a false statement, and most faculty require assignments be entirely student-created. 2026 · high confidence — source
PolicyPeopleResources
Team/Lead: Santa Barbara City College
- Not yet found. Appears to rely on the student code of conduct academic honesty policy
- Professor to professor. Faculty Resource Center provides sample language and guidance
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Resources
- 🆕AI Foundations and Creative Applications noncredit certificate. SBCC's School of Extended Learning offers a tuition-free noncredit Certificate of Completion in 'AI Foundations and Creative Applications' consisting of PROW NC200 Introduction to Generative AI, PROW NC210 Generating Content with AI Tools for Increased Efficiency, and PROW NC220 Creating Graphic Designs with AI Tools, aimed at entrepreneurs and job seekers. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕NotebookLM and Gemini adopted for faculty use. SBCC promotes Google NotebookLM (summaries, quizzes, study guides, audio overviews) and Gemini (integrated across Google Workspace) as supported AI tools for faculty, with symposium slides and training provided through the Faculty Resource Center. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Scheinfeld Center 'AI Unlocked' community event series. SBCC's Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, with the SBCC Career Center, Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce, and EDC SBDC, launched a three-part 'AI Unlocked' series (Oct 10, Oct 24, Nov 7, 2025) to boost AI literacy and career/business readiness, and launched a county Business Owner AI Survey. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕44th Annual Faculty Lecture on generative AI. Longtime English professor Dr. Kimberly Monda delivered SBCC's 44th Annual Faculty Lecture, 'The Power of Human Language in the Age of Generative AI' (May 1, 2026), arguing AI cannot replace human connection; SBCC has shifted toward more in-class writing to counter student reliance on tools like ChatGPT. 2026 · high confidence — source
- Faculty Resource Center 'Chat AI' guidance page. The FRC maintains a 'Chat AI' page with sample syllabus statements (both restrictive and permissive), teaching strategies, AI detection tool guidance (Turnitin, GPTZero, zeroGPT, Packback CheckGPT), data-privacy advice, and a warning about agentic AI that can navigate LMSs and complete/grade assignments. 2026 · high confidence — source
- AI Commons resource hub. SBCC's Instructional Technology Committee hosts an 'AI Commons' page curating Chancellor's Office resources (Vision 2030 'AI as a Strategic Direction', Human-Centered Principles for Adopting Generative AI), ASCCC educator guides, the WICHE AI Institutional Framework, and AI policies from peer colleges. 2025 · high confidence — source
- Luria Library 'AI in Education' research guide. Librarian Ellen Carey maintains a research guide covering AI tools, AI in education, ethics/academic integrity, and finding/citing/evaluating sources for ChatGPT and DALL-E; last updated December 5, 2025. 2025 · high confidence — source
ResourcesSystemsPeople
Team/Lead: Santa Barbara City College
- Library Guide AI in Education Research Guide
- PD from Faculty Resource Center
- Checking for ChatGPT
- Chat AI
- Considerations for Using AI in the Classroom
- Activity Ideas
- AI Tools for Education
- How to (Potentially) Detect AI Chat
- Syllabus sample text
- AI and Plagiarism
- AI / Chat GPT Informational Forum
- Tools
- Turnitin
- gptzero
- zeroGPT
- packback
- Syllab
- Courses
- CS 101: Computer Concepts introduce students to AI topics, including programming and databases
- Computer Networking/Information Technology (CNIT) "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" (CNIT R170). catalog.vcccd.edu