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Butte College
Region: North Far North
At a glance
Butte College adopted Administrative Procedure 3775 in December 2025 following shared-governance review, establishing a district-wide ethical AI framework grounded in the CCCCO HUMANS Principles and explicitly stating that the procedure neither endorses nor mandates AI use. The Academic Technology Committee and a proposed AI Work Group lead faculty engagement, while the Technology Mediated Instruction (TMI) team delivers hands-on workshops, integrates Copyleaks AI-detection and IgniteAI Canvas features, and promotes the CCCCO's self-paced AI Literacy course. The Center for Academic Success runs a five-part AI-in-Education workshop series for students, and the college actively publicizes statewide ASCCC/CCCCO webinars on its calendar.
Updated Scan Findings
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- 🆕AP 3775 approved by district governance, listed in Board Policies & Procedures. AP 3775 Artificial Intelligence appears under Chapter 3 (General Instruction) of the Butte College Board of Trustees Policies and Procedures as an 'AP only' procedure, and the Classified Senate record shows 'AP 3775 Artificial Intelligence APPROVED' tied to the 11/19/25 meeting, indicating shared-governance vetting before December 2025 adoption. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Copyleaks Refresher Webinar emphasizing AI detection (May 2026). Butte's Academic Technology Services lists a 'Copyleaks Refresher Webinar' for May 21, 2026, covering Copyleaks in Canvas and 'newly released AI detection capabilities' to distinguish human-written from AI-generated content. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Butte-hosted GenAI teaching workshop: 'Generative AI Meets Active Learning'. An Academic Technology Services event on March 10, 2026 helps faculty/instructional designers design discussions, case studies, and simulations using GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot, plus prompt-writing techniques. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Active calendar of statewide CCCCO/ASCCC AI webinars promoted to faculty. Butte's Academic Technology Services calendar promotes a 2025-26 AI webinar series in partnership with the CCCCO and ASCCC (e.g., 'The Next Chapter in AI: Integration and Best Practices' Sept 30, 2025; 'AI for Faculty, By Faculty' Jan 15, 2026; 'Addressing the Challenge of Agentic AI' Jan 30, 2026; Playlab scaling Jan 14, 2026), with paired main webinars plus deep-dive sessions. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Academic Technology Committee (ATC) and proposed AI Work Group. The Butte College Academic Technology Committee (ATC) is identified as 'a standing sub-committee of the BC Academic Senate' active on AI topics, and the 2025-2026 Academic Senate meeting documents include a 'Proposed Artificial Intelligence Work Group' (item 8C). An internal faculty group, the Adaptable Courses Design Community (ACDC), also ran a 'Humanizing AI Policy and Practice Roundtable' (Jan 16, 2026). 2026 · medium confidence — source
AI Policies · 2
- 🆕AP 3775 Artificial Intelligence (district-wide administrative procedure). The Butte-Glenn Community College District adopted Administrative Procedure 3775 'Artificial Intelligence' (Approved December 2025), a framework for ethical and responsible AI use across all functional groups, built on the CCCCO 'HUMANS Principles' and operating in conjunction with AP 3050 Code of Ethics, AP 4030 Academic Freedom, and AP 5521 Academic Integrity. It explicitly states 'Nothing in this procedure should be read as an endorsement of, or mandate for, the use of AI.' 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AP 3775 academic-integrity and student-disclosure provisions. AP 3775 commits the district to support syllabus policies spanning 'prohibited use of GenAI to encouraged use coupled with clear privacy guidance and integrity expectations,' to ensure ethical student AI use via 'annual review of AP 5521 Academic Integrity,' and to hold employees responsible for work product 'independent of the mode of generation.' (A Dec 2025 institutional summary further notes students must indicate when AI is used in assignments.) 2025 · high confidence — source
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 7
- 🆕Copyleaks similarity + AI-detection tool integrated in Canvas. Butte College's Academic Technology Services (TMI) has integrated Copyleaks into Canvas for Assignments; it provides similarity/originality detection plus an optional AI-content detection feature that is 'disabled by default, and must be enabled by the instructor,' with guidance to treat AI-detection results 'as a starting point for discussion ... rather than as conclusive proof.' 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕IgniteAI Canvas AI features enabled for instructors. A TMI guide (dated Nov 24, 2025) documents 'IgniteAI,' a set of AI features integrated into Canvas. Discussion Summaries and Discussion Insights are live; Inbox/Discussion/Announcement Translation and AI Rubric Generation are listed as 'Coming June 2026.' Most features are optional and instructor-enabled via Settings > Feature Options. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕AI Literacy for Educators guide promoting CCCCO self-paced course. A TMI guide (dated March 26, 2026) directs Butte faculty, instructional designers, and academic leaders to a free, self-paced 'AI Literacy for Educators' course (via the CCCCO) covering plain-language AI understanding, drafting institutional AI-use guidelines, prompt engineering, assessment redesign, and agentic AI; it offers a certificate and requires a California Community College email to register. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Butte College CS faculty publicly note 'piecemeal' AI guidance (Aug 2025). In an Aug 7, 2025 Chico News & Review article, Butte College computer science/network security instructor Steven Correa described campus AI policies as still piecemeal and varying by instructor, saying 'there's not a lot of institutional support or guidance around these things' - context that predates the District's December 2025 adoption of AP 3775. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Center for Academic Success 5-part 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education' student workshop series. Butte's Center for Academic Success (CAS) offers a 5-part 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education' workshop series for currently-enrolled students: AI 101: Introduction to AI; Ethical Considerations of AI in Education; AI and Critical Thinking; Using AI as a Personal Tutor; and AI in the Workforce (listed in the Penji app / EDUC 310 Canvas course). 2025 · medium confidence — source
- AI/robotics topics within Computer Science (CSCI) curriculum. Butte College CSCI offerings include artificial intelligence as a topic (e.g., CSCI 3 Introduction to Computer Science covers 'artificial intelligence and the theory of computation') and a robotics course addressing AI, current research/applications, and the moral and ethical issues of robots. These are established curriculum rather than new GenAI initiatives. undated · medium confidence — source
- Continuing-education (ed2go) AI and data science courses. Through Butte College's continuing-education partner ed2go ('The Training Place'), the college lists self-paced online AI offerings, including a 'Data Science & Artificial Intelligence' course (Python, machine learning, data analysis, automation, SQL) and 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence,' many leading to certification. 2025 · medium confidence — source
Spring 2025 baseline
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines
V2030: People
Team/Lead: Butte College/TMI team
- TMI department (Technology Mediated Instruction) central to approach, including units tech savvy team of instructional designers, accessibility experts, and student engagement folks
- Spring 2025 AI Professional learning from CVC-OEI
- Partnering with Artificial Intelligence (AI) as part of the learning process taught by DVC Instructional Designer, former English/ESL faculty
AI Policies
V2030: Policy
Team/Lead: Butte College
- Policy not yet found. Relies on current academic integrity policy.
AI Courses, Tools & Resources
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Team/Lead: Butte College
- Faculty have access to Canvas Add-on Copyleaks (Academic Integrity) web page with information
- Technology Mediated Instruction pages are interesting!
- “Instructional Technology Specialists from TMI are available to assist faculty with a wide variety of questions and design support for Canvas, accessibility best practices, course development, and more..” https://butte.edu/departments/tmi/help/index.php
- PD workshops
- Easy AI for Educators: Simple Ways to Test How AI can Help
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education Workshop for Students: 3-part Series by Phi Theta Kappa
- AI 101: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Using AI as a Personal Tutor
- Ethics of AI in Education
- Should Educators Be Using AI? Addressing Ethics as We Explore AI Assistance Workshop
- Publicized CCCCO AI System Webinars on their college's Technology Mediated Instruction webpage
Entities from the knowledge graph
college: Butte Collegeinitiative: Ethics of AI in Educationinitiative: Should Educators Be Using AI? Addressing Ethics as We Explore AI Assistance Workshopinitiative: AI Professional learning from CVC-OEIinitiative: Easy AI for Educators: Simple Ways to Test How AI can Helpinitiative: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education Workshop for Studentsinitiative: Partnering with Artificial Intelligence as part of the learning processinitiative: Using AI as a Personal Tutorinitiative: AI 101: Introduction to Artificial Intelligenceorganization: Phi Theta Kappaorganization: Technology Mediated Instructionorganization: TMI teamorganization: CCCCOpolicy: Butte College Academic Integrity Policy
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Contacts at this college
| Name / Role | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
WA — | wakimsu@butte.edu | |
PA — | palmarinich@butte.edu | |
ST — | stephensda@butte.edu |