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Cuesta College

Region: South Central Coast

At a glance

Cuesta College is in the early stages of AI policy development, with an Academic Senate-led task force—including VP of Instruction Jason Curtis and Senate President Alexandra Kahane—working to define ethical AI use and update the Academic Honesty Agreement. The college has published three optional GenAI syllabus statements for faculty and maintains a comprehensive library guide curated by librarian Mark Stengel. Community Programs offers an AI Machine Learning Boot Camp and introductory workshops, while student journalism documents mixed campus reactions to AI adoption.

Updated Scan Findings

5 new 🆕· 12 source-verified findings from the updated web scan
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines · 3
  • AI task force exploring academic integrity / Academic Honesty Agreement. Faculty and staff formed a task force to incorporate AI into the college's Academic Honesty Agreement; VP of Instruction Jason Curtis said a task force objective is determining when AI use is ethical and when it is not, distinguishing authorized from unauthorized use. 2024 · high confidencesource
  • Academic Senate priority to define ethical AI use and prohibit misuse. Academic Senate President Alexandra Kahane stated that an Academic Senate priority is to explore ethical and practical uses of AI while clearly defining and prohibiting its misuse, with the college described as being in the early stages of a policy declaration. 2024 · high confidencesource
  • AI Buffet community-education workshop. Cuesta Community Education offers an 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) Buffet,' a one-week introductory workshop where participants learn why AI is in the news and try a variety of free AI-enhanced applications. 2026 · medium confidencesource
AI Policies · 1
  • Three optional GenAI syllabus policy statements for faculty. Cuesta's online education / distance education faculty resources publish an 'A.I. Usage Syllabus Policies' document with guidelines to include one of three policy statements on syllabi regarding the use and misuse of generative A.I. (GenAI). 2026 · high confidencesource
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 8
  • 🆕AI Machine Learning Boot Camp (Azure AI-102). Cuesta Community Programs offers a six-month, online, self-paced AI Machine Learning Boot Camp (300+ hours, Python/ML, capstone on autonomous vehicles) preparing students for the Microsoft Azure AI Engineer certification (AI-102); led by instructor Felix Quinque. 2026 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕Student journalism documenting AI use, concerns, and AI-accusation friction. The Cuestonian published 2026 pieces including a student AI survey (Apr 13, 2026; 61 respondents, 41% never use AI for studying) and 'AI is changing education. Cuesta students have mixed reactions.' (May 21, 2026), plus a feature on students/faculty frustrated by AI-misconduct accusations. 2026 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕Nectir AI available system-wide to all California Community Colleges (incl. Cuesta). A landmark California Community Colleges deal made Nectir's AI tutor/assistant available free to all ~2.1 million students across 116+ campuses; as a CCC member district, Cuesta College is covered. Announced March 2026 (and reported by Axios Oct. 2025). 2026 · medium confidencesource
  • 🆕AI for Students workforce course (ed2go / Model Teaching). Through Cuesta Community Programs Workforce (ed2go), the college lists 'AI for Students: Ensuring Appropriate & Effective Use,' covering popular AI tools for enhancing student learning. 2026 · medium confidencesource
  • 🆕Career-training AI/Computer Science programs (ed2go). Cuesta's Career Training (ed2go) catalog hosts a dedicated 'AI - Artificial Intelligence Programs' computer-science category, including AI/machine learning and ChatGPT/Copilot-focused online certificate offerings. 2026 · medium confidencesource
  • Library guide 'AI (Artificial Intelligence) for Faculty'. The Cuesta College Library maintains a multi-page LibGuide for faculty (maintained by librarian Mark Stengel) covering AI fundamentals, resources, tools, putting AI to use, keeping up, and a student section; curates classroom policy examples and detection-tool resources. Last updated May 2026. 2026 · high confidencesource
  • Library 'For Students' AI guidance on responsible use and citation. The student section of the AI LibGuide provides an 'Ethical AI Use Checklist for Students' (Turnitin), responsible-use modules, and citation guidance for generative AI (MLA, APA, Chicago, CSE). Last updated May 2026. 2026 · high confidencesource
  • Turnitin AI writing detection and exploration of Nectir AI assistant. Faculty use Turnitin's AI writing-detection feature; VP of Instruction Jason Curtis described Nectir AI as a teaching-assistant tool faculty could train on course materials to provide tutoring-like help to students. 2024 · high confidencesource

Spring 2025 baseline

AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines

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AI Policies

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Entities from the knowledge graph

college: Cuesta Collegeorganization: Cuesta College Academic Senateorganization: Cuesta College Office of Instructionorganization: Cuesta College Library Facultyperson: Mark Stengelpolicy: Cuesta College Student Code of Conduct Academic Honesty

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Contacts at this college

Name / RoleEmailPhone
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Mark Stengel
Library Faculty
mark_stengel@cuesta.edu(805) 592-9410