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Cabrillo College
Region: Bay Area
At a glance
Cabrillo College's AI work is led by Academic Senate and VPI Travaris Harris, with librarian Betsy Vaca developing guides and professional development resources. A district taskforce is drafting policy recommendations, and in January 2025 IT recommended the college adopt non-instructional AI policies aligned with the California Community Colleges League framework while Senate considers instructional components. Cabrillo participates in the Bay Area Community College Consortium's AIDA initiative for AI curriculum and hosted a 2024 Summer CyberCamp on AI and machine learning, though no dedicated AI degree program has yet launched.
Updated Scan Findings
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- Member of BACCC AIDA (Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics) consortium. Cabrillo College is listed as one of ~10 participating Bay Area colleges in the Bay Area Community College Consortium's AIDA initiative, which provides industry-supported AI/data-analytics curriculum, professional development, and certifications with partners including Intel, AWS, IBM, Google, CompTIA, and Jobs for the Future. undated · high confidence — source
- Free Summer CyberCamp covering AI and machine learning. Cabrillo College, the Bay Area Cyber League, and the Santa Cruz County Office of Education ran a free week-long Summer CyberCamp (2024) for grades 8-12 and community college students that listed 'Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning' among its key topics, held on the Cabrillo campus. 2024 · high confidence — source
- AI named as a Computer Science sub-field (no dedicated AI course found). Cabrillo's Computer Science department page lists artificial intelligence among CS sub-fields (algorithms, data structures, computer graphics, AI, human-computer interaction), but no standalone AI, machine learning, or data science course or certificate was found in the CS or CIS program pages. undated · medium confidence — source
Spring 2025 baseline
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines
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Team/Lead: Cabrillo/Senate/AS & VPI Travaris Harris/Librarian Betsy Vaca
- Spring 2023 AI in Learning Discussion in student-run paper
- Librarians have created AI in education guides
- Feb 2024 Senate AI In The Classroom Presentation (Skye Gentile, Nina Kotelyan, Kendall Sooter)
- Details of AI and the impacts on learning and the student experience.
- They reviewed various ways that colleges are responding to AI in the classroom.
- AI policy that can be included in the syllabus, citation requirements for use of AI in assignments, and tools to establish boundaries that ensure academic integrity.
- District/College Taskforce: AS/VPI Travaris Harris is working with a dedicated taskforce to discuss this topic in detail and will make recommendations to the college about what policies Cabrillo may adopt in the future.
- Aug 2024 AI impact on learning selected as Senate meeting agenda item
- Jan 2025 Admin Services Counsel Subcommittee/IT suggested in Feb 2025 to consider adoption of non-instructional AI policy components to match CA CC League Recommendations (Approved AI applications and Data Privacy and Security) AND recommended Instruction (Senate) consider remaining League suggestions
AI Policies
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Team/Lead: Cabrillo
- Policy not yet found. Appears to rely on existing Academic Integrity guidance in Student Honor Code
- Cabrillo Faculty AI Syllabus Approaches shared at Senate
AI Courses, Tools & Resources
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Team/Lead: Cabrillo/Library/Betsy Vaca
- AI Professional Development, Library Guides
- Course
- Webinars
- Workshops
- Events, including Advancing Ideas: Artificial Intelligence Monthly Meetup, Idea Fab Labs
- Cabrillo had participating representation in PlayLab in November Inaugural cohort with UC Berkeley
Entities from the knowledge graph
college: Cabrilloinitiative: AI In The Classroom Presentationinitiative: AI Professional Developmentinitiative: Advancing Ideas: Artificial Intelligence Monthly Meetuporganization: Cabrillo College AI Task Forceorganization: Cabrillo College Administrative Services Counsel Subcommitteeorganization: California Community Colleges Leagueorganization: Cabrillo College Academic Senateorganization: Idea Fab Labsorganization: Cabrillo College Libraryperson: Travaris Harrisperson: Betsy Vacaperson: Skye Gentileperson: Nina Kotelyanperson: Kendall Sooterpolicy: Student Honor Code
Links & artifacts
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- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1szzuPpnCEanFqhI6yNc8J-lkoRnsEMPs/view?usp=sharing fetched
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13zajc8c7TkP3fUDU_44gdhzDeXzC9Cw_00ZsHhVHctA/edit?usp=sharing fetched
- https://thecabrillovoice.com/2269/science-and-tech/will-artificial-intelligence-help-or-harm-cabrillo-students/ fetched
- https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/cabrillo/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=CE4VUR827848 fetched
AI Policies · 2
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 3
Contacts at this college
| Name / Role | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
TH Travaris Harris Academic Senate President and Vice President of Instruction | (831) 479-6217 | |
BV Betsy Vaca Library | bevaca@cabrillo.edu | (831) 479-6150 |
SG Skye Gentile Faculty | (650) 504-8803 | |
NK Nina Kotelyan Faculty | kotelyann@smccd.edu | |
KS Kendall Sooter Faculty | kesooter@cabrillo.edu |