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Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 3 entries, 24 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 12 source-verified findings (9 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.
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- 🆕Senate Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Education (AIT). Cerritos College's Faculty Senate operates a Senate Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Education (AIT), with a dedicated website (cerritos.edu/ait) serving as an AI resource hub for faculty and students, governed by published bylaws. The committee remains active in 2026 (the AIT homepage was last updated October 7, 2025). 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum (2024-2025). A five-member Cerritos faculty team led by communications professor Kimberly Rosenfeld (with Janet Mitchell Lambert, Teresa Lantz, Terrance Mullins, and Angela Nagao) was selected among 124 institutions for AAC&U's inaugural Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum, attending the September 2024 kickoff and an April 2025 capstone to develop classroom AI action plans. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AIT AI events: Peter Shea (Feb 2025) and Rick White (Apr 2025). The AIT 'AI Events and Recordings' page lists 'Urgency of Now: How AI can be used to Solve Problems of Teaching and Learning' by Peter Shea (2-21-25, transcript posted) and 'Human-Centered AI' by Professor Rick White (4-4-25), the latter a guest talk about 'the first Community College AS Degree in AI' (that degree is at MiraCosta College, not Cerritos). 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AI Committee meeting minutes dated May 4, 2026. AI Committee Meeting Minutes dated 5.4.26 are posted to the district's BoardDocs, confirming the AI committee continued to meet through Spring 2026; search results reference committee participants including Lantz, Rosenfeld, Terry, Jennifer O'Connor, and Patrick O'Donnell. 2026 · medium confidence — source
- 🆕AI Faculty Survey, Spring 2025. The Faculty Senate AI Task Force conducted an Artificial Intelligence Faculty Survey in Spring 2025; per Cerritos search results 105 full- and part-time faculty completed it, gauging faculty views and experience with AI. (Survey results PDF is posted but is largely image-based/not text-extractable.) 2025 · medium confidence — source
PeoplePolicySystems
Team/Lead: Cerritos College/Senate/ Ed Tech Dept/Professors Lantz Teresa, Jannet Mitchell Lambert, and Terrence Mullins, Prof Kimberly Rosenfeld, communications studies, Janet Mitchell Lambert, DE coordinator; Teresa Lantz, accounting/finance; Terrance Mullins, political science, and Angela Nagao, speech communication./Student Newspaper & Senate
- March 2023 Cerritos needs to realize the potential for ChatGPT Amy Parker, ASCC Contributor
- “Instead of panicking over it, faculty should just make sure they have systems in place to catch those who try and skip on their work via ChatGPT, as well as figure out how to utilize this potential new opportunity to better help their students.”
- The Educational Technology (EDT) Department is actively engaged in AI efforts at Cerritos College.
- EDT 160: Using Artificial Intelligence in The Educational Environment
- January 2024 Cerritos College Faculty Senate passed use of generative AI tools resolutions
- “affirms that the decision to accept or reject the integration of generative AI tools remains at the discretion of individual instructors.”
- Recommends updating the Academic Honesty/Dishonesty Policy to include “Unauthorized use of generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT, GPT-3, DALL-E, etc.) on assessments or assignments".
- Proposal
- Sept 2024 Five Cerritos College faculty members are among the 124 higher education institutions selected to participate in The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)’s inaugural Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum. This new, fully online institute is designed to help departments, programs, colleges, and universities respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities artificial intelligence (AI) presents for courses and curricula.
- American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)’s inaugural Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum.
- Student Clubs! AI/Data Science Club at Cerritos College
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- https://www.cerritos.edu/connections-2024/10/10.07/AI.htm fetched
- https://www.cerritos.edu/tlantz/default.htm fetched
- https://cerritos-public.courseleaf.com/degrees-certificates-courses/course-descriptions/edt/?utm_source=chatgpt.com fetched
- https://www.talonmarks.com/top-stories/2023/03/09/cerritos-needs-to-realize-the-potential-for-chatgpt/ fetched
- https://www.cerritos.edu/tmullins/default.htm fetched
- https://www.talonmarks.com/news/2024/01/24/artificial-intelligence-and-academic-integrity-can-we-have-both/ fetched
- https://www.cerritos.edu/faculty-senate/committees/default.htm fetched
- https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/cerritos/Board.nsf/files/CZMMTY5CDC28/$file/Academic%20Honesty.pdf fetched
- https://www.cerritos.edu/faculty-senate/documents/Senate-Resolution-on-the-Use-of-Artificial-Intelligence-Tools-January-23-2024_ua.pdf fetched
- https://www.cerritos.edu/faculty-senate/documents/Senate-Resolution-on-the-Use-of-Artificial-Intelligence-Tools-January-23-2024_ua.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com fetched
Policies
- 🆕Six customizable AI-use syllabus statements (approved Spring 2025). The Faculty Senate approved flexible AI guidelines offering six customizable syllabus options ranging from 'AI Use Prohibited' (treated as academic dishonesty) through permission-based, limited, citation-required, and 'Unrestricted Use' tiers, available in Simple Syllabus for faculty to embed. 2025 · high confidence — source
- Faculty Senate Resolution on the Use of AI Tools & Academic Honesty (Jan 2024). The Faculty Senate passed a Senate Resolution (January 23, 2024) affirming that integrating generative AI is at the discretion of individual instructors, and requesting the district's official Academic Honesty/Dishonesty Policy add: 'Unauthorized use of generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT, GPT-3, DALL-E, etc.) on assessments or assignments.' 2024 · high confidence — source
PolicySystems
Team/Lead: Cerritos College
- January 2024 Cerritos College Faculty Senate passed use of generative AI tools resolutions
- “affirms that the decision to accept or reject the integration of generative AI tools remains at the discretion of individual instructors.”
- Recommends updating the Academic Honesty/Dishonesty Policy to include “Unauthorized use of generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT, GPT-3, DALL-E, etc.) on assessments or assignments".
- Proposal
Resources
- 🆕Artificial Intelligence Library (AIT resource hub). The AIT 'Artificial Intelligence Library' is a curated AI-literacy collection of 35+ articles, books (e.g., Bowen & Watson's 'Teaching with AI,' 2024), tools (e.g., Google NotebookLM), videos, and 25+ websites, plus an 'AI Process Measurement Rubric' and six student handouts on prompt engineering, accuracy-checking, ethics, and AI-use transparency (last updated May 11, 2026). 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕EDT 160 - Using Artificial Intelligence in The Educational Environment. The 2025-2026 catalog lists EDT 160, 'Using Artificial Intelligence in The Educational Environment' (3.0 units, CSU-transferable), covering AI fundamentals, applications in business and education, integration into common software, productivity, and AI policy/ethical/management considerations; offered fully online. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕OpenAI ChatGPT Lab campus event (April 15, 2026). OpenAI's education newsletter lists Cerritos College ('Cerritos College — Apr 15') among 40+ campuses hosting a student-led ChatGPT Lab in April 2026, described as a space for students to see how peers use AI across studying, careers, and daily life. 2026 · medium confidence — source
- Impactful Teaching Toolkit: Use of Artificial Intelligence. A faculty professional-development toolkit page provides strategies for both allowing and restricting AI, including 'AI Starter Guide - Harvard,' 'Teaching with AI Basics,' AI assignment/activity examples, and guidance such as 'How do I AI Proof My Assignments?' and 'AI Resilient Assignments and Assessments' (last updated 9/22/2025). 2025 · high confidence — source
- Ed2Go / Economic Development continuing-ed AI courses. Through its Economic Development / Ed2Go non-credit catalog, Cerritos College offers AI continuing-education courses including an 'Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Suite,' 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence,' and a 'Data Science & Artificial Intelligence' career-training program (Python, machine learning, SQL). undated · high confidence — source
ResourcesPeople
Team/Lead: Cerritos College
- PD
- EDT 160 provides students and staff with insights into AI technologies and their integration into educational environments.
- Five Cerritos College faculty members are among the 124 higher education institutions selected to participate in The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)’s inaugural Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum. This new, fully online institute is designed to help departments, programs, colleges, and universities respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities artificial intelligence (AI) presents for courses and curricula.
- Additional PD Needs: While current courses offer foundational knowledge, there is a growing need for advanced workshops and training sessions focusing on the latest AI developments and their practical applications in various educational contexts.
- Courses
- Community Ed
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Suite
- AI for Writers
- Intro to AI
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- https://www.ed2go.com/cerritos/online-courses/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-suite/ fetched
- http://cerritos-public.courseleaf.com fetched
- https://www.ed2go.com/cerritos/online-courses/introduction-to-artificial-intelligence/ fetched
- https://cerritos.augusoft.net/customers/CC/Files/CerritosCE_100_spring-24_internet.pdf blocked