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Saddleback College
Region: Orange County
At a glance
Saddleback College operates a campus AI Workgroup under the South Orange County CCD district-wide AI governance structure, led by Dean Kim d'Arcy, who also serves as PI on a $150,000 state AI FAST Challenge grant targeting language acquisition across ESL, English, and communications (reaching 8,797 students and 188 faculty). The college adopted district AI Use Guidelines in December 2025 and has moved from policy drafting to active implementation, with President Elliot Stern hosting an AI Summit and Town Hall in 2025 that showcased tools and prioritized AI literacy as a workforce imperative. Operationally, staff across Promise, MESA, DSPS, and the library now use AI for scheduling, accessibility, and student workshops on ethical AI use in career search.
Updated Scan Findings
13 new 🆕· 13 source-verified findings from the updated web scanAI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines · 7
- 🆕District-wide AI Taskforce with Saddleback College AI Workgroup. The SOCCCD AI Use Guidelines were authored by a 'District-wide AI Taskforce, SC AI Workgroup [Saddleback College], and IVC AI Taskforce,' indicating Saddleback has a dedicated campus AI workgroup operating under district AI governance. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕SOCCCD/Saddleback official AI commitment and resource hub. SOCCCD maintains an Artificial Intelligence page stating the district and colleges are 'committed to the ethical and responsible use of AI technologies to advance teaching, learning, research, and district services,' linking AI Use Guidelines, AI Learning Materials, related ARs (3726, 5040, 5500, etc.), and the statewide AI Across the California Community Colleges resource. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AI Learning Materials for faculty and staff (Google AI tracks). SOCCCD's AI Learning page provides educator-focused training including 'Getting Started with Google AI in Higher Education' (Gemini, Gemini for Workspace, NotebookLM), Google's 'Generative AI for Educators,' '50+ Ways to Use Gemini in Higher Education,' and a 'Teaching Responsible Use of AI' guide. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Saddleback College AI Summit 2025. On Nov 3, 2025, President Dr. Elliot Stern hosted a college AI summit on integrating AI while maintaining academic integrity, featuring administrators (Dean of Instructional Support Kim d'Arcy, VP Instruction Tram Vo-Kumamoto, VP Student Services Jennifer Labounty, Director of Technology Services Thurman Brown), a student panel, and demos of Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Napkin, Playlab, Big Interview, and Nectir AI. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Presidential AI Town Hall (April 2025). Saddleback College President Dr. Elliot Stern hosted an AI Town Hall on April 21, 2025 (recorded on the college's YouTube channel). 2025 · medium confidence — source
- 🆕President Elliot Stern retirement; AI literacy as priority. President Dr. Elliot Stern, who hosted the college's AI summit and town hall, announced retirement (announced Oct 7, 2025; effective summer 2026) and framed preparing students with 'AI literacy, AI software skills' as essential for workforce competitiveness. 2025 · medium confidence — source
- 🆕Faculty syllabus AI policy guidance shared internally. Faculty (e.g., Brett Myhren) have shared sample AI policies for instructors to consider including on their syllabi, per college search/resource references; no single standardized college-wide syllabus statement was located as a fetchable primary document. 2025 · low confidence — source
AI Policies · 1
- 🆕SOCCCD AI Use Guidelines for Employees. District-wide guidelines (created 12.04.25; proposed revision 1.23.26) covering Saddleback employees set DOs/DON'Ts: human-led oversight and review of AI output, checking for bias/fairness, and prohibiting entry of personal/proprietary/confidential information into AI tools (FERPA/HIPAA) and use of AI in confidential meetings without approval. 2025 · high confidence — source
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 5
- 🆕$150,000 California Education Learning Lab AI FAST Challenge grant. Saddleback College won a $150,000 AI FAST Challenge grant (2024-25 RFP, announced Nov 13, 2024) for 'AI for Language Acquisition,' led by PI Kim d'Arcy and Co-I Christopher Stillwell, to use generative AI to support language instruction across ESL, English, reading, sign language, communications, and international languages. 2024 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AI for Language Acquisition project (grant scope and reach). The funded project analyzes student AI usage patterns, runs surveys/focus groups, holds workshops on 'AI interaction and ethical use,' pilots AI applications, and creates Open Educational Resources; it anticipates reaching 8,797 students and 188 faculty. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Cross-department operational AI adoption by staff. A Dec 15, 2025 Lariat article documents staff/faculty using AI operationally: the Promise Program and MESA for scheduling, email, event planning and Zoom AI meeting transcription; DSPS for accessible reading/writing/memory support and multi-format summaries; and a math professor generating problems, exams, and quizzes. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Library 'Evaluation and Ethics in AI' workshop. The Saddleback College Library offers an online Canvas workshop 'Evaluation and Ethics in AI' (offered Summer 2026) that helps students understand, use, and critically evaluate AI-generated content. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Career Center AI workshops for job/internship search. The Career Resource Center has run student events such as 'A Conversation on AI and Your Job Search' (July 31, 2025) and 'AI Tools to Land Internships and Jobs' to help students use AI in career preparation. 2025 · high confidence — source
Spring 2025 baseline
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines
V2030: PeopleV2030: Policy
Team/Lead: Saddleback College/Online Ed Committee, all schools/divisions, college-wide AI workgroup, Kim d'Arcy/ district-wide AI Taskforce/students, employees, grants office AI pilots
- AI Workgroup
- AI has been a shared college-wide topic. The AI Workgroup is representative of constituency groups across campus. Information has been disseminated out across campus for varying levels of participation.
- Projects are focusing on: Infrastructure, policies, pedagogy/practices, grants, professional development, operational use, security, data privacy, compliance, and accessibility.
AI Policies
V2030: Policy
Team/Lead: Saddleback College
- Not yet found. Appears to rely on the student code of conduct academic honesty policy.
- Plagiarism is any conduct in academic work or programs involving misrepresentation of someone else’s words, ideas or data as one’s original work, including, but not limited to, the following:
- paraphrasing or quoting material without citing the source.
- submitting as one’s own a copy of or the actual work of another person, either in part or in entirety, without appropriate citation (e.g., term-paper mill or Internet-derived products).
- They are in the process of establishing.
AI Courses, Tools & Resources
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Team/Lead: Saddleback College
- PD/Courses
- AI Literacy
- Explore AI for Work & Home | 3-Part Series
- Explore AI for Work & Home: Zero to AI - Understanding AI (Part 1)
- Explore AI for Work & Home: Making AI Work For You (Part 2)
- Explore AI for Work & Home: ChatGPT - All About the Prompts (Part 3)
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Suite
- Underdevelopment Curriculum
- Business Applications with Artificial Intelligence
Entities from the knowledge graph
college: Saddleback Collegeinitiative: Grants Office AI Pilotsinitiative: Explore AI for Work & Homeinitiative: Explore AI for Work & Home: Zero to AI - Understanding AIinitiative: Explore AI for Work & Home: Making AI Work For Youinitiative: Explore AI for Work & Home: ChatGPT - All About the Promptsinitiative: Business Applications with Artificial Intelligenceorganization: Saddleback College Online Ed Committeeorganization: Saddleback College AI Workgrouporganization: District-wide AI Taskforceperson: Kim d'Arcypolicy: Saddleback College Student Code of Conduct Academic Honesty Policy
Links & artifacts
AI Policies · 1
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 5
- https://saddleback.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassListing.ClassListingDisplay&int_category_id=15&int_sub_category_id=394&int_catalog_id= blocked
- https://www.ed2go.com/saddleback/online-courses/introduction-to-artificial-intelligence/ fetched
- https://www.saddleback.edu/sites/default/files/2024-11/11-12-24%20CC%20Agenda_0.pdf fetched
- https://www.ed2go.com/saddleback/online-courses/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-suite/ fetched
- https://www.saddleback.edu/library/library-workshops fetched
Contacts at this college
| Name / Role | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
KD Kim d'Arcy Lead | (949) 582-4365 | |
JL Jennifer LaBounty | jlabounty@saddleback.edu |