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San Bernardino Valley College
Region: Inland Empire / Desert
At a glance
San Bernardino Valley College's Academic Senate AI Task Force, chaired by Jessy Lemieux, delivered a voluntary three-tier syllabus framework (No AI Use, AI Assistance, AI Integration) with modular language in Spring 2026, following a 98-faculty survey and comparative policy review. The framework operates under district AP 3775 and emphasizes assessment redesign over detection tools, which the college warns produce false positives and bias. Librarians maintain AI literacy guides, the CIT department offers a noncredit AI Essential Skills certificate, and a Fall 2026 town hall is planned to roll out professional development.
Updated Scan Findings
10 new 🆕· 11 source-verified findings from the updated web scanAI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines · 3
- 🆕Academic Senate AI Task Force delivers Spring 2026 recommendations. The SBVC AI Task Force, chaired by Jessy Lemieux and charged by the Academic Senate in Spring 2026, brought four recommendations to the Senate (1st read 4/29/26, 2nd read 5/6/26) based on an n=98 faculty survey, review of ASCCC/CCCCO guidance, and comparative analysis of California community college frameworks; it recommends its own continuation to oversee implementation. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Recommended Fall 2026 AI professional development plan. The task force recommends an AI town hall during Fall 2026 convocation week to introduce the framework and gather PD needs, with materials delivered as self-paced online modules, short guides, and tip sheets; survey data flagged compensation/workload (56%) and lack of time (53%) as the top barriers to PD engagement. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕SBVC faculty presenting on AI at 2025 ASCCC Curriculum Institute. Thomas Berry of San Bernardino Valley College was a presenter at the 2025 ASCCC Curriculum Institute on how faculty can leverage AI for writing and enhancing curriculum, including developing course topics and refining student learning objectives and outcomes. 2025 · medium confidence — source
AI Policies · 3
- 🆕SBVC AI Framework for Syllabus Use, Teaching, and Learning v1.0. A voluntary, modular framework recommended to the Senate on 4/29/26 defines three levels of AI use (No AI Use, AI Assistance, AI Integration) with ready-to-adopt course-level and assignment-level sample syllabus language, plus a phrase menu for tailoring permitted uses; faculty can set a course default and override per assignment. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Best Practices statement on academic integrity, assessment design, and AI detection. A companion 'Best Practices for AI in Teaching and Learning' statement affirms faculty purview, calls for reciprocal student/faculty transparency, and urges assessment design (process, reflection, oral demonstration) over detection; it warns, per AP 3775, that AI detection tools are flawed, produce false positives, and show bias against non-native speakers, so a detection result should prompt investigation rather than serve as a final judgment. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕District Administrative Procedure AP 3775 (Artificial Intelligence). SBCCD's district-level AP 3775 (Artificial Intelligence) provides the policy context cited throughout SBVC's framework, covering data privacy, FERPA compliance, third-party vendor approval, ethical use, and detection-tool limitations; it was a Level 3 procedure moving through the district Policies & Procedures Advisory Committee review as of April 17, 2025 and is treated as active policy context in SBVC's April 2026 framework. 2025 · medium confidence — source
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 5
- 🆕Artificial Intelligence (AI) Essential Skills Certificate of Completion. A noncredit certificate in the Computer Information Technology department (2025-2026 catalog) introducing practical applications of AI and Machine Learning tools in business; required courses are CIT 610 (AI Basics), CIT 611 (Introduction to AI Tools), CIT 612 (Machine Learning Basics), and CIT 613 (AI in Action), totaling 88-104 hours, with learning outcomes including implementing equity-minded AI systems. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Library AI Literacy research guide. An AI Literacy LibGuide maintained by librarian Stacy Rollstin-Weiland (last updated May 12, 2026) defines AI/generative AI/AI literacy, lists 13 generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, DALL-E 3, etc.), warns that tools can hallucinate, advises students to prioritize their instructor's guidelines, and covers ethics, image generation, and AI citation; an additional-resources page lists curated books, eBooks, databases, and web resources. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Companion 'living' resource for AI in teaching. The framework includes a companion resource with a modular phrase menu (grammar/formatting only, early-stage thinking, research/study support, editing/revision), notes on auto-enabled AI features in Google Docs/Word and Grammarly, MLA/APA AI citation guidance, and references to ASCCC, CCCCO HUMANS, and CCCCO Vision 2030 AI frameworks; the task force recommends developing citation examples/FAQ as part of the Fall 2026 PD plan. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Equity considerations in AI guidance and curriculum. SBVC's Best Practices statement warns that requiring AI use without providing equitable access can disadvantage students because paid AI versions often outperform free versions, and the AI Essential Skills certificate lists implementing equity-minded AI systems as a learning outcome. 2026 · high confidence — source
- Winternship paid AI research project for students. Computer Science Associate Professor Jesse Chou participated in the Winternship research project, assisting six SBVC students studying artificial intelligence in what he described as a rare paid undergraduate research opportunity. 2024 · medium confidence — source
Spring 2025 baseline
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines
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Team/Lead: San Bernardino Valley College/Senate/Library Faculty
- Librarians have created rich selection of AI resources/guides, including about AI use in education
- Winter 2025 Academic Senate moved to create AI Working Group
- Proposal
AI Policies
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Team/Lead: San Bernardino Valley College
- Not yet found. Currently appears to rely on student code of conduct
- Academic Honesty and Intellectual Integrity: Plagiarism
- Students have often been rewarded for copying and pasting something from the internet into their own papers without proper citation. But this practice is plagiarism. And plagiarism is a violation of the academic honesty and intellectual integrity policies of SBVC.
AI Courses, Tools & Resources
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Team/Lead: San Bernardino Valley College
- PD
- Librarians-created AI resources/guides, including about AI use in education
- Guidance for Students
- Guidance for Faculty
- The inaugural Techtopia conference was held at SBVC on May 11 2024 , where artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity were in the spotlight. Organized by the faculty in the STEM-MESA and computer science departments, the first-of-its-kind event for the campus brought together students, faculty, and community members for a full day of hands-on workshops and enlightening sessions, showcasing the remarkable potential of technology in shaping the world of tomorrow.
Entities from the knowledge graph
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