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Santa Barbara City College

Region: South Central Coast

At a glance

Santa Barbara City College's Academic Senate Instructional Technology Committee, chaired by Laurie Vasquez, establishes AI policy in cooperation with the Senate and tracks generative AI tools and detection software. The Faculty Resource Center has delivered symposia on NotebookLM and Gemini, maintains syllabus guidance and a "Chat AI" resource page, and offers CCC End User Training modules, while the college has adopted academic integrity guidance stating students may use AI as a research tool but not substitute it for their own work. SBCC launched a tuition-free noncredit AI Foundations certificate through Extended Learning and hosts an AI Commons hub curating system-wide and peer resources, placing it in the mid-adoption phase with active faculty development and emerging curricular offerings.

Updated Scan Findings

5 new 🆕· 10 source-verified findings from the updated web scan
AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines · 2
  • 🆕Faculty AI Symposium and Gemini/NotebookLM training. The FRC ran an AI Symposium (4-17-2026) featuring NotebookLM, a Gemini & NotebookLM Education Features workshop, and provides 'Generative AI End User Training 101/102 for CCC' modules, plus earlier sessions like 'AI Tools for the Classroom' (Fall 2024) and 'Checking for ChatGPT' (2023, 2024). 2026 · high confidencesource
  • Instructional Technology Committee oversees AI policy. The ITC, a standing committee of the Academic Senate chaired by Laurie Vasquez, in cooperation with the Senate 'establishes policy that impacts new use of AI technologies' and tracks/reviews generative AI tools and AI detection tools and their classroom impact; it reports up to the District Technology Committee and College Planning Council. undated · high confidencesource
AI Policies · 1
  • Academic integrity guidance on AI-generated work. SBCC guidance states students may use AI as a research tool but must not substitute the substance of their work with AI output; claiming AI-generated work as one's own is a false statement, and most faculty require assignments be entirely student-created. 2026 · high confidencesource
AI Courses, Tools & Resources · 7
  • 🆕AI Foundations and Creative Applications noncredit certificate. SBCC's School of Extended Learning offers a tuition-free noncredit Certificate of Completion in 'AI Foundations and Creative Applications' consisting of PROW NC200 Introduction to Generative AI, PROW NC210 Generating Content with AI Tools for Increased Efficiency, and PROW NC220 Creating Graphic Designs with AI Tools, aimed at entrepreneurs and job seekers. 2025 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕NotebookLM and Gemini adopted for faculty use. SBCC promotes Google NotebookLM (summaries, quizzes, study guides, audio overviews) and Gemini (integrated across Google Workspace) as supported AI tools for faculty, with symposium slides and training provided through the Faculty Resource Center. 2026 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕Scheinfeld Center 'AI Unlocked' community event series. SBCC's Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, with the SBCC Career Center, Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce, and EDC SBDC, launched a three-part 'AI Unlocked' series (Oct 10, Oct 24, Nov 7, 2025) to boost AI literacy and career/business readiness, and launched a county Business Owner AI Survey. 2025 · high confidencesource
  • 🆕44th Annual Faculty Lecture on generative AI. Longtime English professor Dr. Kimberly Monda delivered SBCC's 44th Annual Faculty Lecture, 'The Power of Human Language in the Age of Generative AI' (May 1, 2026), arguing AI cannot replace human connection; SBCC has shifted toward more in-class writing to counter student reliance on tools like ChatGPT. 2026 · high confidencesource
  • Faculty Resource Center 'Chat AI' guidance page. The FRC maintains a 'Chat AI' page with sample syllabus statements (both restrictive and permissive), teaching strategies, AI detection tool guidance (Turnitin, GPTZero, zeroGPT, Packback CheckGPT), data-privacy advice, and a warning about agentic AI that can navigate LMSs and complete/grade assignments. 2026 · high confidencesource
  • AI Commons resource hub. SBCC's Instructional Technology Committee hosts an 'AI Commons' page curating Chancellor's Office resources (Vision 2030 'AI as a Strategic Direction', Human-Centered Principles for Adopting Generative AI), ASCCC educator guides, the WICHE AI Institutional Framework, and AI policies from peer colleges. 2025 · high confidencesource
  • Luria Library 'AI in Education' research guide. Librarian Ellen Carey maintains a research guide covering AI tools, AI in education, ethics/academic integrity, and finding/citing/evaluating sources for ChatGPT and DALL-E; last updated December 5, 2025. 2025 · high confidencesource

Spring 2025 baseline

AI-Engaged People, Processes & Timelines

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Team/Lead: Santa Barbara City College/Senate/ IT Committee/Faculty Resource Center/Library Faculty Ellen Carey

AI Policies

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AI Courses, Tools & Resources

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Entities from the knowledge graph

college: Santa Barbara City Collegeinitiative: CNIT R170: Introduction to Artificial Intelligenceinitiative: AI / Chat GPT Informational Foruminitiative: AI PD Resourcesinitiative: CS 101: Computer Conceptsorganization: Faculty Resource Centerorganization: Information Technology Committee

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Contacts at this college

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Alex Lynch
alynch@vcccd.edu