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College of the Canyons
Region: South Central Coast
At a glance
College of the Canyons' Academic Integrity Committee, chaired by Dr. Shane Ramey, is drafting a Faculty Guide and Senate Statement on AI in Education and a policy governing faculty use of AI in grading and feedback, with both items recurring on 2025–2026 Senate agendas. The college offers a four-course faculty AI professional development series through Online Education and a free noncredit Certificate of Competency in Generative AI for students, taught by librarian Sara Breshears and colleagues.
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- 🆕Academic Integrity Committee (AIC) addressing AI in the classroom. A standing subcommittee of the Academic Senate chaired by Dr. Shane Ramey works to advance academic integrity in the age of AI and helps faculty develop their own classroom AI-use policies; an Academic Freedom Committee was also established for the post-COVID/AI landscape. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Planned annual self-paced faculty training on integrity and AI (CETL). Per the Nov 6, 2025 agenda, Senate leadership is working with CETL to develop a self-paced online training course infusing local focus areas like academic integrity and artificial intelligence for faculty to complete annually, with a vision to be presented in spring. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Faculty representation at ASCCC 'AI and Academia 2026' conference. Dr. Shane Ramey attended the ASCCC 'AI and Academia 2026: Navigating the Future' conference (March 2026) and reported to the Senate on assessment in the AI era, noting there is no 'AI-proof' online assessment and cautioning against sacrificing Course Outline of Record content to make assessments AI-resistant. 2026 · high confidence — source
- Faculty AI professional development course series. Online Education offers a four-course AI series for faculty (each ~1 week, 3 Flex hours via Vision Resource Center): Essential AI Literacy; AI in Education: Opportunities & Considerations; Teaching & Learning with AI; and Academic Integrity and AI Policies (covering plagiarism detection tools and crafting course AI policies). 2025 · high confidence — source
AI Policies · 4
- 🆕AIC drafting Faculty Guide and Senate Statement on AI in Education. Per the Nov 6, 2025 Academic Senate agenda, the Academic Integrity Committee discussed a Faculty Guide and an Academic Senate Statement on Artificial Intelligence Education, plus a document by Adam Kaiserman, 'How to Foster Academic Integrity at COC in an age of (AI),' noting AI is impacting lecture-based courses the most. 2025 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Senate statement on faculty use of AI in grading/feedback (in progress). The AIC drafted and submitted to the Senate a statement on 'Academic Freedom of Faculty use of AI in Grading and Feedback'; it appears as a recurring future-business item across the Nov 6, 2025 and April 16, 2026 agendas, signaling faculty AI use in evaluation is being formally governed. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Revised academic-dishonesty grade-penalty procedure addressing AI checkers. The April 16, 2026 agenda notes concern over a 'secondary AI checker' not used by COC; under revised policy faculty may assign a zero for academic dishonesty and the student may appeal, with cases reportable to administration (John LeJay). 2026 · high confidence — source
- Academic integrity policy treats unauthorized AI use as cheating/plagiarism. The Student Conduct / academic integrity page defines plagiarism to include 'unauthorized use of AI-generated material' and lists 'unauthorized use of generative AI or other web-based application' as an example of cheating. undated · high confidence — source
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 5
- 🆕Senate discussion of state-sanctioned AI tools and 2025 Google MOU. Ramey's April 2026 report flagged state-sanctioned AI tools (Nectir AI, Playlab) for custom AI tutors and raised questions about the 2025 Google MOU; because COC is primarily a Microsoft/Office district, integrating Google AI tools poses challenges, and the report asks who decides adoption and notes COC does not currently have these tools. 2026 · high confidence — source
- 🆕Employee/classified concerns about AI workforce readiness. At a Feb 2026 board meeting, Classified Senate President Michael Monsour said he lacked confidence in the chancellor's office's readiness for AI's workforce impact; interim VP of HR Miranda Zamudio acknowledged no professional development program exists for classified employees and conversations 'haven't really started.' 2026 · high confidence — source
- Generative AI for Academic and Career Success Certificate of Competency. A free, repeatable, year-round noncredit Certificate of Competency in the School of Personal and Professional Learning comprising NC.BCSK 003 (Generative AI: Research and Study Tools) and NC.BCSK 004 (Generative AI: Navigating Bias, Evaluation, and Transparency), covering ethical use, citations for AI, bias, privacy, and attribution. 2025 · high confidence — source
- Noncredit GenAI courses NC.BCSK 003 and NC.BCSK 004. NC.BCSK-003 (instructor Sara Breshears, librarian) is a 2-week online noncredit Pass/No-Pass course on GenAI research/study skills; NC.BCSK-004 (instructor Chloe McGinley) covers navigating bias, evaluation, and transparency including AI citation and plagiarism avoidance. Fall 2024 · high confidence — source
- Library-led GenAI instruction for students. COC librarian Sara Breshears teaches the noncredit GenAI research/study course, and the GenAI certificate emphasizes student academic and career success with proper attribution; the program is delivered free through the School of Personal and Professional Learning. 2025 · high confidence — source
Spring 2025 baseline
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines
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Team/Lead: College of the Canyons/Academic Senate/ Online Educator PD/CETL
- May 2023 COC has incorporated guidelines on AI usage within academic Integrity
- Timeline of Office of Instruction AI process
- Foundations
- Discussions about teaching and learning should be led by faculty
- Discussions should be founded on academic integrity and efficacy of assessing students
- Student security and privacy should be protected
- Students should be prepared to succeed in the workplace
- Instruction will continue to support and provide professional development
- Online Educator Workshops & Professional Development Exploring AI Series, includes topics like academic integrity and AI policies, hosted in VRC
AI Policies
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Team/Lead: College of the Canyons
- COC has incorporated guidelines on AI usage within its academic Integrity Statement
- “unauthorized use of generative AI or other web-based application”
AI Courses, Tools & Resources
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Team/Lead: College of the Canyons
- January 2024
- Offered FLEX workshops on developing a Generative AI syllabus policy
- Developed and delivered a statewide @ONE course on Generative AI and OER, with 6 COC faculty participants
- April 2024 Exploring AI Series
- Offering a series of 1-week, facilitated online professional development courses
- What is GenAI?
- Academic Integrity and GenAI
- Policies and Procedures for GenAI
- Teaching and learning with GenAI
- Spring 2024
- Collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University to develop a national training program for teaching with Generative AI
- Discussions on Generative AI by the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
- Summer 2024
- Non-Credit Certificate
- Generative AI for Students: Research and Study Tools
- Generative AI for Students: Navigating Bias, Evaluation, and Transparency
- Learn practical applications to boost study skills, research, and critical thinking, while navigating bias and ensuring transparency, fostering ethical use of Generative AI
- AI Tools and Platforms: COC utilizes platforms like Turnitin
Entities from the knowledge graph
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- https://www.canyons.edu/_resources/documents/administration/academicsenate/documentspage/academicsenatestandingrulesandstatements/StatementonAcademicIntegrityFinalApproved52523.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com fetched
- https://www.canyons.edu/academics/onlineeducation/facultysupport/workshops.php?utm_source=chatgpt.com fetched
- https://www.canyons.edu/_resources/documents/administration/academicsenate/documentspage/UpdateonGenerativeAIStepsbytheOfficeofInstructionSP24.pdf fetched