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City College of San Francisco

Region: Bay Area

At a glance

CCSF's AI Workgroup, appointed by the Technology Committee and chaired by Jennifer Kienzle, has developed employee recommendations (endorsed November 2025) that prohibit entering PII into GenAI and approved Microsoft Copilot as the FERPA-compliant tool for all staff. The college offers a mandatory self-paced "Generative AI Essentials" course for employees, credit course CNIT 430 in Spring 2026, and maintains Academic Senate sample syllabus language affirming each faculty member's authority to set AI use policies.

Updated Scan Findings

7 new 🆕· 11 source-verified findings from the updated web scan
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines · 2
  • 🆕AI Workgroup appointed by Technology Committee. CCSF has an AI Workgroup (appointed by the Technology Committee) that supports thoughtful, ethical, accessible, privacy-conscious use of GenAI across teaching, learning and operations. Named members: Jennifer Kienzle (Chair), Monika Liu (Administrator), Alex Hosmer and Richard Velasquez (Classified Professionals), and Megan Sweeney (Faculty). 2025 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕GenAI Essentials self-paced course for all employees. CCSF offers a self-paced 'Generative AI Essentials' course introducing ethical, accessible, privacy-conscious AI use for education and operations. All employees (administrators, classified professionals, faculty) can enroll by emailing CityOnline@ccsf.edu; employees are encouraged to complete it before using GenAI for college work and to revisit it annually. 2025 · high confidencesource
AI Policies · 3
  • 🆕Recommendations for CCSF Employees Using Generative AI (endorsed Nov 2025). Employee GenAI recommendations developed by the AI Workgroup were last updated and endorsed by the Technology Committee on November 18, 2025. They direct employees never to enter PII/student/confidential data into GenAI tools, to be cautious with agentic/autonomous AI, to apply critical thinking and be transparent when AI is used, and note employees are not required to use AI. 2025 · high confidencesource
  • Academic Senate sample AI language for syllabi. The Academic Senate maintains a 'Sample AI language for Syllabi' page affirming faculty purview: each instructor decides how, if at all, generative AI is used, and must communicate that intent in the syllabus for transparency and academic-integrity documentation. Sample statements are adapted from Sonoma State University; described as a fluid document updated as GenAI evolves. undated · high confidencesource
  • Academic integrity guidance tied to faculty AI syllabus policy. CCSF guidance frames unauthorized use of generative tools (where students submit AI-generated content as their own) as the core academic-integrity concern; faculty must document their AI policy in the syllabus so violations can be addressed. The library's faculty-support academic-integrity page reiterates CCSF's plagiarism definition and prevention resources. undated · high confidencesource
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 6
  • 🆕Microsoft Copilot approved; Zoom AI Companion for transcription; ban on third-party meeting bots. Microsoft Copilot, used with a CCSF account, is the college-approved (FERPA/Privacy-Policy-compliant) GenAI tool available to all employees. Zoom AI Companion (in CCSF's enterprise Zoom license) is endorsed for transcription/summary, while third-party AI meeting assistants such as Read.AI and Otter.AI must be discontinued in CCSF meetings. 2025 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕Curated AI resources: Microsoft AI Skills Navigator and Elevate for Educators. The CCSF AI page links employees to external learning resources including the Microsoft AI Skills Navigator and Microsoft Elevate for Educators, and directs staff to review official resources from the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office Digital Center (CCCCO Digital Center for Innovation, Transformation, and Equity). 2025 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕CNIT 430 Intro to AI (credit course) offered Spring 2026. CCSF offers credit course CNIT 430 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence' (3 units), an intro to AI fundamental concepts, ethical considerations and practical applications with hands-on work in real-world cybersecurity and cloud contexts; scheduled Spring 2026 (Jan 17-May 20, 2026) taught by Samuel Bowne, with recommended prep CNIT 120 and CS 131B. 2026 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕City Extension non-credit AI & Machine Learning Suite. CCSF City Extension (continuing education, via ed2go) offers an 'Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Suite' (48 course hours, $262, instructor-moderated online) covering AI science, AI ethics and applications, and supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised machine learning techniques. 2026 · high confidencesource
  • Faculty GenAI Resources site (Dayamudra Dennehy). ESL faculty member and Digital Fluency Coach Dayamudra Dennehy maintains a public 'Gen AI Resources' site (a 'Generative AI Living Timeline') curating interviews, webinars, articles, tools and policy suggestions for CCSF, with content updated through 2025 (e.g., Summer 2025 UNESCO Red Teaming Playbook for Educators). 2025 · high confidencesource
  • Library AI citation guidance (MLA/APA examples). CCSF Library guidance states AI language models such as ChatGPT may be used for assignments with appropriate citation; students are responsible for fact-checking AI output and must properly cite AI tools, with MLA and APA citation examples provided. (Some library AI LibGuide URLs returned 404 on direct fetch; citation guidance is cross-referenced from the Academic Senate AI syllabus page.) undated · medium confidencesource

Spring 2025 baseline

AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines

V2030: People
Team/Lead: CCSF Academic Senate

AI Policies

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Team/Lead: CCSF

AI Courses, Tools & Resources

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Team/Lead: CCSF/Senate and Librarians

Entities from the knowledge graph

college: CCSFinitiative: Academic Senate Scan: Where is AI being used at the college?organization: Sonoma State Center for Teaching & Technologyorganization: CCSF Libraryorganization: CCSF Learning Technologiespolicy: CCSF Academic Senate Sample Syllabi Language

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