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Ohlone College

Region: Bay Area

At a glance

Ohlone's eCampus unit has led sustained AI professional development since Fall 2022, launching a formal AI Community of Practice in June 2025 where faculty design and share AI-enhanced lessons, and facilitating a Fall 2025 book discussion on teaching integrity in the age of AI. The college's AP 5501 (updated July 2024) explicitly names unauthorized AI use as academic dishonesty, and the English Department has adopted a departmental policy treating substantive AI-written work as an integrity violation.

Updated Scan Findings

4 new 🆕· 9 source-verified findings from the updated web scan
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines · 3
  • 🆕AI Community of Practice launched June 2025. eCampus launched Ohlone's inaugural AI Community of Practice (CoP) in June 2025 to support faculty in exploring and incorporating generative AI into teaching and student-services activities, with faculty designing and sharing AI-enhanced lessons. Announced an AB1705 cohort and a Spring 2026 Cohort 3. 2025 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕'Opposite of Cheating' faculty book discussion (Fall 2025). For 8 weeks in Fall 2025, eCampus facilitated synchronous reading/discussion groups with 15 faculty around 'The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching with Integrity in the Age of AI,' focused on academic integrity and classroom culture. 2025 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕Ongoing AI faculty professional development since Fall 2022. eCampus has run AI-focused professional development since Fall 2022, including 'AI Today' (Spring 2025) on LLM/generative-AI advances and custom chatbots, 'Integrating AI into the Classroom' (Fall 2024, Copilot/AutoPilot/Quizizz), 'AI Policy Show and Tell' (Spring 2024), and an asynchronous 'Assessment in a Digital and AI World' course (to be offered again in 2025-2026). 2025 · high confidencesource
AI Policies · 2
  • AP 5501 names unauthorized AI use as academic dishonesty. Ohlone's board-level Administrative Procedure AP 5501 Academic Dishonesty (updated July 17, 2024) lists 'Unauthorized use of Artificial Intelligence or Generative AI Tools' as a form of academic dishonesty; the dishonesty report/appeal process and sanctions apply. 2024 · high confidencesource
  • English Department departmental AI policy. The English Department/Composition Program treats using AI tools like ChatGPT to write a substantive portion of an assignment as a violation of academic integrity, and instructors may default to college academic-dishonesty policy on reasonable suspicion of AI use. Drawn in part from UC Irvine's Composition Program. undated · high confidencesource
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 4
  • 🆕Ohlone AI Club (student organization). Ohlone has a student AI Club with on-campus meetings (e.g., a Nov 5, 2025 session listed on the college events calendar). 2025 · medium confidencesource
  • Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (career training). Ohlone's career-training division offers a 260-hour, 9-month self-paced non-credit 'Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Course' ($4,495) covering Python, machine learning (scikit-learn/Pandas/NumPy) and building AI-powered web apps with Flask and OpenAI; delivered via third-party provider (Noble Desktop/ed2go). Does not lead to a certification. 2025 · high confidencesource
  • AI for Business: ChatGPT & Copilot (career training). A 36-hour, 3-month self-paced non-credit 'AI for Business Course: ChatGPT & Copilot' ($795) teaching generative-AI prompt writing, ChatGPT (Custom GPTs, Agent Mode, Projects, Tasks), and Microsoft Copilot across Microsoft 365, ending with a capstone and exam; delivered via third-party provider (Noble Desktop/ed2go). 2025 · high confidencesource
  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (community ed / ed2go). Ohlone Community Education offers an online 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence' course (via ed2go) providing foundational knowledge of AI and how consumers interact with AI in applications like chatbots and recommendation engines. undated · medium confidencesource

Spring 2025 baseline

AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines

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AI Policies

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  • AP 5501: Academic Dishonesty: Students at Ohlone College are expected to conduct themselves honestly and ethically. This includes doing one’s own academic work and adhering to the guidelines for completing coursework and assignments set by instructors. Academic work to be graded that uses unauthorized collaboration or assistance is not permitted. Collaboration or assistance can include using other people’s writing, ideas, images, or other materials, as well as artificially generated content, without acknowledgment or permission.
  • Unauthorized use of Artificial Intelligence or Generative AI Tools, which includes but is not limited to the following:
  • 1. Use of Artificial Intelligence to produce writing, visuals, code, or any other work to fulfill an assignment without authorization from the instructor;
  • 2. Partial use of Artificial Intelligence in an assignment without proper citation given to the parts of the assignment that include AI-generated material or without prior authorization from the instructor;
  • 3. Use of Artificial Intelligence to begin or draft work without acknowledgment of how AI was used or that it was used;
  • 4. Use of Artificial Intelligence to revise or improve work without acknowledgment of how AI was used or that it was used;

AI Courses, Tools & Resources

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Entities from the knowledge graph

college: Ohloneinitiative: AWS Machine Learninginitiative: Community Ed Intro to AIorganization: Ohlone College Student AI Clubpolicy: AP 5501: Academic Dishonesty

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