The Environmental Scan, made filterable
Spring 2025 baseline — 8 regions, 122 colleges, 2 entries, 4 notes · updated scan (latest: June 2026) adds 10 source-verified findings (8 new). Every entry is tagged with one or more Vision 2030 domains: People · Policy · Systems · Resources.
Bay Area
filter to regionEngaged People
- 🆕District AI Guidance under faculty senate review. Faculty governance records from early 2025 show district AI work in progress: the Los Medanos College Senate was set to review 'District AI Guidance' language (per March 4, 2025 Faculty Senates Coordinating Council materials), with college AI task forces reviewing/modifying the DVC sample AI policy. 2025 · medium confidence — source
- Districtwide AI Taskforce across three colleges. Representatives from Contra Costa Community College District (Contra Costa College, Diablo Valley College, Los Medanos College) formed a districtwide AI Taskforce that, in under a year, created AI policy 'that builds a foundation of trust, transparency, and culturally responsive teaching practices' and set the stage for a districtwide commitment to AI Critical Literacy training. Presented at the 2025 ASCCC Academic Academy. 2025 · medium confidence — source
PeoplePolicy
Team/Lead: 4CD/District Wide AI Taskforce
- AI Policy: District or College Policy?
- All college Academic Senates considering district draft in their December 2024
Policies
- DVC Acceptable Use of Artificial Intelligence Policy. Diablo Valley College published an Acceptable Use of AI policy encouraging critical digital literacy and responsible use; instructors set their own course AI policies (communicated in syllabi), and using generative AI without attribution or permission may constitute academic misconduct under the 4CD Student Code of Conduct (Procedure 3027). undated · high confidence — source
Policy
Team/Lead: 4CD/District
- 4CD AI Student Code of Conduct Language (reviewed by college senates in fall 2024)
- Adapts the language of Stanford Office of Community Standards AI Policy Guidance
Resources
- 🆕2025-2030 District Strategic Plan includes AI integration goal. The 4CD Governing Board adopted the 2025-2030 District Strategic Plan on June 11, 2025; under Goal 3 it commits to 'Assess opportunities to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into institutional practices, administrative workflows, and student support services' and to convene forums engaging students with emerging technologies while promoting critical thinking and responsible digital citizenship. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕DVC Introduction to AI Programming course. Diablo Valley College launched 'Introduction to AI Programming,' developed by CS Professor Dr. Gene Khaja, first offered summer 2024; it covers AI fundamentals via hands-on projects (prerequisite Python/C++/Java) and filled a waiting list within days of announcement. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕DVC 12-unit AI Programming Certificate (planned). DVC is moving forward with a planned 12-unit AI Programming Certificate, tentatively launching in 2027, comprising Python Language Programming, Introduction to AI Programming, and Advanced AI Programming (the latter focused on building chatbots and AI agents/co-pilots for healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and hospitality). 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Contra Costa College Library 'AI in Education' guide. Contra Costa College Library maintains an 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education' research guide with 'What is AI?', 'For Students', and 'For Faculty' sections; the student section advises checking instructor classroom AI policies and citing AI use per MLA/APA, and lists tools (ChatGPT, Perplexity, NotebookLM, DALL-E 2). Created by Ellen Carey, Saskia Kusnecov, and Alison Gurganus. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Contra Costa College Library AI guide - faculty section. The 'For Faculty' section of the Contra Costa College AI in Education guide curates pedagogy resources (AI-resistant assignment design from Yale, NIU, Ohio State), sample syllabus policies (e.g., Purdue), and detection tools (GPTZero, OpenAI AI Classifier); last updated May 20, 2026. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕DVC Library 'The AI Syllabus' guide. DVC Library publishes 'The AI Syllabus,' an annotated, APA-formatted resource covering ten AI themes (AI Fundamentals, Biases/Ethics, Teaching and Learning, Creating and Knowing, Healthcare, Film/TV, Grief and Memory, Data and Archives, Copyright) with learning outcomes and activities; created by Anne Kingsley (Dean of Educational Technology & Learning Resources) and Emily Moss (Teaching Librarian), last updated May 26, 2026. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Los Medanos College non-credit AI career training programs. Los Medanos College's career training (ed2go) catalog lists an 'AI-Artificial Intelligence Programs' computer science category of online, non-credit certificate-of-completion programs; full program content could not be directly verified (page returned access restrictions). undated · low confidence — source