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Chabot-Las Positas Community College District
DistrictRegion: Bay Area
At a glance
Las Positas College has designated Catherine Suarez as AI and Academic Honesty Liaison and Kat King as Instructional Technology Coordinator, leading a mature adoption effort that includes an AI Resources hub, course-level policy guidance with a sample template, and professional development through @ONE courses, workshops, and RPDN participation. The college offers a 21-unit AI Certificate and two new CS courses (Intro to AI, Intro to Machine Learning), collaborates on Bay Area curriculum through the BACCC Intel partnership, and pilots Canvas-integrated tools (Nectir, Playlab) while developing ComplyBot in-house for accessibility compliance. CLPCCD's 2025-2028 classified contract includes an AI clause requiring meaningful human oversight of any AI use.
Updated Scan Findings
14 new 🆕· 15 source-verified findings from the updated web scanAI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines · 3
- 🆕Named AI faculty leads / liaison roles at Las Positas. LPC's AI Resources page identifies Kat King (Instructional Technology Coordinator), Catherine Suarez (Professor & 'AI and Academic Honesty Liaison'), and Suzanne Kohler (Academic Senate Administrative Support) as the leads, indicating a designated AI/academic-honesty liaison role. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AI faculty professional development (workshops, @ONE courses, RPDN). LPC offers AI professional development including self-paced courses ('@ONE: Generative AI', 'AI Literacy for Educators'), workshops, a 'Reclaiming Joy: Human-First Teaching in the AI Era' recording, and Nectir/Playlab pilot participation; LPC is involved in the CCCCO-supported 2025-2026 Regional Professional Development Networks (RPDNs) on AI literacy and ethics. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Chabot College Spring 2026 Flex Day AI sessions. Chabot's Spring 2026 Flex Day includes a Student AI Panel, 'From Student Voice to Educator Action' (Tara Mandrekar) synthesizing student AI listening sessions into instructional strategies, a STEM PDF-to-Canvas conversion session using LaTeX/Overleaf/ChatGPT (Robert Yest), and 'AM&C AI and Guided Pathways Planning' (Deonne Kunkel). 2026 · high confidence — source
AI Policies · 3
- 🆕Per-course AI policy guidance with sample template. LPC encourages faculty to set AI policy at the course level (a campuswide policy is considered impractical across disciplines) and provides a 'Developing Your AI Course Policy' section plus a sample template distinguishing 'Allowed Use' (e.g., brainstorming, grammar) from 'Forbidden Use' (e.g., submitting AI-generated essays). 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕SEIU classified contract (2025-2028) AI clause. The CLPCCD-SEIU classified collective bargaining agreement (2025-2028) reportedly establishes that AI may be used as a tool to assist and support bargaining unit employees and that any permitted use of AI shall include meaningful human review and oversight (per district contract documents; exact clause text not directly extractable from the PDF). 2026 · medium confidence — source
- Academic Senate integrity statement names AI generators as cheating/plagiarism. Las Positas College's Academic Honesty/Integrity statement explicitly lists 'using an artificial intelligence generator without the instructor's knowledge' as cheating and submitting work 'obtained from an artificial intelligence generator' as one's own as plagiarism, stating 'Use of AI should not occur without the knowledge and approval of the instructor.' 2024 · high confidence — source
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 9
- 🆕Las Positas College AI Resources hub for faculty. LPC maintains a dedicated AI Resources website that defines AI terminology, lists AI tools, provides AI course-policy guidance with a sample policy template, lists detection tools (Canvas Analytics/Quiz Logs, Turnitin, Respondus LockDown Browser/Monitor, Google Doc revision history), and links professional development. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Nectir AI Canvas-integrated assistant pilot (Spring 2025). Through the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office pilot, LPC instructors began piloting Nectir AI in Spring 2025, a Canvas-integrated tool for building customizable, FERPA-compliant course assistants. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Playlab AI bot-building pilot (Fall 2024). The CCCCO made Playlab AI available system-wide beginning with a Fall 2024 pilot for faculty, classified professionals, and administrators; LPC lists it as a tool instructors can use to create custom, FERPA-compliant bots. Fall 2024 · high confidence — source
- 🆕ComplyBot accessibility tool built in-house. LPC Instructional Technology Specialist Wanda Butterly developed ComplyBot, an AI tool to help instructors align course content to accessibility and Universal Design for Learning standards; LPC also lists Khanmigo (Khan Academy) among educator AI tools. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Artificial Intelligence Certificate of Achievement (21 units). Las Positas College offers a 21-unit Artificial Intelligence Certificate of Achievement (CS 1, CS 2, CS 4, CS 5, CS 7, STAT C1000) preparing students for roles such as AI programmer, machine learning engineer, data scientist, and business intelligence developer. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕CS 4 Intro to AI and CS 5 Intro to Machine Learning. LPC's 2025-2026 catalog lists CS 4 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence' (3 units; search algorithms, knowledge representation, Bayesian/Markov reasoning, AI ethics) and CS 5 'Introduction to Machine Learning' (3 units; supervised/unsupervised/reinforcement learning, ML libraries, ethics), both CSU-transferable. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AI Regional Joint Venture / BACCC curriculum collaboration. LPC participates in the 'AI Regional Joint Venture' with the Bay Area Community College Consortium (BACCC) to develop AI workforce curriculum; BACCC has licensed Intel's full 2-year AI instructional program (co-developed with Arizona community colleges) for any Bay Area college to adopt at no cost. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Chabot student AI listening sessions. Chabot College conducts student listening sessions to surface students' perspectives, attitudes, and uses of AI in learning and career preparation, with synthesized insights fed back to faculty/staff to shape instructional and institutional responses (presented at the Spring 2026 Flex Day 'From Student Voice to Educator Action' session). 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Chabot Arts, Media & Communication 'large AI grant'. Chabot's Spring 2026 Flex Day session 'AM&C AI and Guided Pathways Planning' (Deonne Kunkel) describes Arts, Media and Communication faculty coordinating work on 'a large AI grant' alongside guided pathways development; the grant's funder and amount are not stated on the page. 2026 · medium confidence — source
Spring 2025 baseline
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines
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Team/Lead: CLPCCD/District/Senate/Catherine Suarez
- Oct 2023 AI policy raised by Chancellor
- District and college Faculty Senates discussing
- Differentiated approaches favored
- JEDI work group tasked with AI
- Senate doesn't believe consensus will be reached
- Article published by faculty member Sarah Thompson put out her Faculty Focused Newsletter
- Oct 2024 AI re-raised by Chancellor
- Spring 2025 Flexes on AI, including faculty and student panel
AI Policies
V2030: PolicyV2030: Resources
Team/Lead: CLPCCD/District
- Policy not yet found. Per District meetings, College Senates discussing and taking different approaches. PD requested.
- Spring 2025 flex focused sessions on AI
Entities from the knowledge graph
college: Chabot-Las Positas Community College Districtinitiative: Spring 2025 Flexes on AIinitiative: Spring 2025 AI Flex Sessionsinitiative: Spring 2025 Flex Sessions on AIorganization: CLPCCD Faculty Senateorganization: JEDI Work Grouporganization: Chabot College Academic Senateorganization: AI Task Forceorganization: Las Positas College Academic Senateorganization: CLPCCD District Faculty Senateorganization: CLPCCD Districtorganization: CLPCCD College Senatesperson: Catherine Suarezperson: Sarah Thompsonperson: Mona Abdounperson: Ashley Youngpolicy: CLPCCD AI Policypolicy: Las Positas College AI Policy
Contacts at this college
| Name / Role | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
CS Catherine Suarez Spanish Professor & Academic Integrity Liaison | (925) 424-1212 | |
ST Sarah Thompson Faculty member | sthompson@laspositascollege.edu | (925) 424-1261 |
MA Mona Abdoun Senate representative | mabdoun@chabotcollege.edu | (510) 723-7528 |
AY Ashley Young Academic Senate member | ayoung@laspositascollege.edu | |
CS — | csuarez@laspositascollege.edu | |
SK Suzanne Kohler | sikohler@laspositascollege.edu | |
KK Kathleen King | kmking@laspositascollege.edu |