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Modesto Junior College
Region: Central Valley / Mother Lode
At a glance
Modesto Junior College's Academic Senate approved a flexible AI policy framework in early Spring 2025, developed by an ad hoc workgroup co-chaired by librarians Iris Carroll and Stella Beratlis, which faculty can incorporate into syllabi; the college updated its Academic Integrity Policy in 2024 to treat unauthorized AI use as plagiarism. MJC has delivered extensive professional development—including four José Antonio Bowen workshops in Spring 2025 and multi-session student/faculty AI literacy events—and maintains comprehensive library guides for both students and faculty on ethical AI use, pedagogy, and citation.
Updated Scan Findings
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- 🆕Ad hoc Academic Senate AI Workgroup. An ad hoc Academic Senate AI Workgroup, co-chaired by librarians Iris Carroll and Stella Beratlis, met from January to December 2024 with faculty from SLAE, BSS, and APH to develop AI policy changes and faculty guidance. 2024 · high confidence — source
- 🆕José Antonio Bowen AI teaching workshops (Spring 2025). MJC hosted four hybrid faculty workshops with author/speaker José Antonio Bowen on AI in teaching beginning January 31, 2025, with recorded sessions made available to faculty. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Student and faculty AI literacy workshops and roundtables. MJC ran 'Chatbots & Checkpoints: Where Does AI Fit into the Research Process' (seven sessions across both campuses, Spring 2025), an 'AI Literacy in the Age of ChatGPT' Institute Week workshop (Fall 2024), and a 'Let's Chat: A Candid Conversation About AI at MJC' student/faculty roundtable (April 10, 2024). 2025 · high confidence — source
AI Policies · 3
- 🆕MJC Policy Regarding the Use of Artificial Intelligence (Academic Senate-approved). In early Spring 2025 the MJC Academic Senate passed the 'MJC Policy Regarding the Use of Artificial Intelligence,' a flexible framework providing language faculty can incorporate into their course syllabi regarding AI use. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Syllabus statement guidance on AI use. The faculty pedagogy guide advises instructors to include clear syllabus statements on whether/how AI may be used, hold class conversations, use honor statements or group agreements, and specify which skills must be demonstrated without AI, referencing the Senate-approved AI policy framework. 2026 · high confidence — source
- Academic Integrity Policy updated to address AI in plagiarism definition. In Spring 2024 the AI workgroup proposed a change to MJC's Academic Integrity (Academic Freedom & Integrity) Policy to account for AI in its definition of plagiarism; unauthorized/unattributed use of AI is treated as plagiarism. 2024 · high confidence — source
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 6
- 🆕Central Valley AI Innovation Forum (May 2025). On May 21, 2025, Yosemite Community College District, the MJC Foundation, and the Columbia College Foundation co-hosted the free public 'Central Valley AI Innovation Forum: Shaping Our Regional Future' at MJC's East Campus, with California Community Colleges Chancellor Sonya Christian as keynote and nearly 300 registrants; topics spanned AI in manufacturing, healthcare, education, and workforce. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Online continuing-education AI courses (ed2go / Data Science & AI). Through its non-credit continuing/career-training catalog MJC offers an online 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence' course (ed2go) and an online 'Data Science & Artificial Intelligence' course covering Python, machine learning, data analysis, automation, and SQL; these are workforce/continuing-education offerings rather than credit certificates. 2025 · medium confidence — source
- 🆕No standard institution-wide AI detection/use policy; left to instructors. MJC President Brian Sanders stated there is no standard policy for AI use or detection; individual professors decide how or whether to address student AI use, AI detection tools are acknowledged as not always accurate, and some instructors are reverting to in-person/handwritten ('blue book') assessments. 2025 · medium confidence — source
- 🆕AI detection tools guidance (not recommended as sole method). The faculty guide includes an 'AI Detection Tools' page advising that detection tools should not be the sole means of identifying AI use but one method among others, reflecting concerns about accuracy. 2026 · medium confidence — source
- Student Guide to Generative Artificial Intelligence (library research guide). The MJC Library maintains a multi-page 'Student Guide to Generative Artificial Intelligence' covering ethical use, academic integrity/citing AI, study assistance, AI and careers, and developing AI skills; adapted from the 2025 Elon University / AAC&U Student Guide. Last updated March 9, 2026. 2026 · high confidence — source
- AI Literacy in the Age of ChatGPT (Faculty Guide). Librarian Iris Carroll created an online faculty guide, 'AI Literacy in the Age of ChatGPT,' covering pedagogy, AI detection tools, prompt writing, citation, and ethical concerns; last updated March 9, 2026. 2026 · high confidence — source
Spring 2025 baseline
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines
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Team/Lead: Modesto Junior College/Library Faculty Iris Carroll
- Faculty, Library, Students, Classified asked for PD
- “We heard your pleas for training on the topic of artificial intelligence”
- 4-event AI PD series
- Library Faculty have created
- Library Guides
- Generative AI (Students)
- AI Literacy in the Age of ChatGPT (Faculty Guide )
AI Policies
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Team/Lead: Modesto Junior College
- “MJC has an Academic Freedom & Integrity policy that defines the unauthorized use of AI as plagiarism. In addition, instructors may have policies on how ChatGPT or other AI may or may not be used in classroom assignments. If your instructor doesn't have a written policy or hasn't stated whether AI can be used for assignments, ask them!”
AI Courses, Tools & Resources
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Team/Lead: Modesto Junior College
- Library Guides
- Faculty
- Teaching with AI
- Guide for Instructors
- Generative AI and Pedagogy
- AI Detection Tools
- Effective Use of ChatGPT and Other LLMs
- Fact-checking is Always Needed
- Ethical & Practical Concerns
- Citing Generative AI
- Generative AI Product Track
- Student
- Using Generative AI effectively
- Fact checking is always needed
- Is using ChatGPT considered cheating?
- Ethical & Practical Concerns
- Citing Generative AI
- Comparing Generative AI Tools
- PD Series
- Don't Miss this Opportunity to Explore AI with Us
- Bowen 4_Attendance QR Code
- Introduction to AI
Entities from the knowledge graph
college: Modesto Junior Collegeinitiative: AI Professional Development Seriesinitiative: PD Series on AIorganization: Modesto Junior College Library Facultyperson: Iris Carrollpolicy: MJC Academic Freedom & Integrity Policy
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- https://libguides.mjc.edu/ailiteracy/events#s-lg-box-33696781 archived
- https://libguides.mjc.edu/chatgpt/use archived
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- https://libguides.mjc.edu/ailiteracy/events#s-lg-box-33887627 archived
- https://www.ed2go.com/mjc/online-courses/introduction-to-artificial-intelligence/ fetched
- https://libguides.mjc.edu/ailiteracy/events archived
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20240708141558/https://libguides.mjc.edu/chatgpt/use fetched
Contacts at this college
| Name / Role | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
IC Iris Carroll Library Faculty | (209) 575-6082 |