AI Faculty Fellow

What Is the AI Faculty Fellow’s Role?

Artificial intelligence is reshaping education, work and society. 

California Community Colleges Chancellor Sonya Christian has made building AI literacy a Vision 2030 priority, with the goal of adopting and using AI and Generative AI (GenAI) while focused on the HUMANS-centered principles — a foundational framework aimed at ensuring that AI adoption across California’s 116 community colleges is human-centered, ethical and equitable. Students, faculty and staff must have the fundamentals of GenAI literacy, including effective prompt construction and considered verification of AI output. 

In support of this, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office has launched the AI Fellows Program and recently announced a partnership with Google. These statewide initiatives provide access to Google's Gemini AI app, which is compliant with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protecting the privacy of student education records, as well as career certificates and AI training courses and support tools. The new AI Faculty Coordinator will ensure that De Anza’s faculty and students fully benefit from these statewide resources while leading campuswide AI literacy efforts.

Closer to home, De Anza needs AI experts. Faculty have made clear their need for leadership and innovation on AI at De Anza. Now is the time to invest in innovation and campuswide discussions about AI and its role in education. Developing these requires dedicated time and focused efforts that this position will supply while working with a broad range of faculty.

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Faculty Fellow Projects

Spring 2026 AI Community of Practice, “AI in the Disciplines” 

In Spring 2026, this Community of Practice (CoP) explored how AI is impacting the teaching and learning of specific disciplines and innovative responses. Participants shared their innovative practices in a Virtual Showcase at the end of the quarter. See transcript.