Bill Text: CA AB2370 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 2370

Bill Title: Community colleges: faculty: instructor of record: qualifications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-25 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. [AB2370 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2370-Amended.html

Amended IN Assembly April 17, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2370

Introduced by Assembly Member Cervantes

February 12, 2024

An act to add Section ~~87709~~ 87359.2 to the Education Code, relating to community colleges.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2370, as amended, Cervantes. Community colleges: faculty: ~~artificial intelligence.~~ instructor of record: qualifications.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes the California Online Community College, under the administration of the board of governors, for specified purposes, and requires the college to develop a Research and Development Unit to, among other things, focus on using technology, data science, behavioral science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to build out student supports. Existing law requires the board of governors to adopt regulations to establish and maintain the minimum qualifications for service as a faculty member teaching credit instruction or a faculty member teaching noncredit instruction. Existing law requires the board of governors to adopt regulations authorizing local governing boards to employ faculty members and educational administrators who do not meet the specified minimum qualifications, subject to alternative minimum qualifications.

This bill would prohibit artificial intelligence from being used to replace community college faculty for purposes of providing academic instruction to, and regular interaction with, students in a course of instruction, and would authorize artificial intelligence to only be used as a peripheral tool to support faculty in carrying out those tasks for uses such as course development, assessment, and tutoring.
This bill would explicitly require the instructor of record for a course of instruction to be a person who meets the above-described minimum qualifications to serve as a faculty member teaching credit instruction or a faculty member teaching noncredit instruction, or the alternative minimum qualifications to serve as a faculty member.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 87359.2 is added to the Education Code, to read:

87359.2.
The instructor of record for a course of instruction shall be a person who meets the minimum qualifications to serve as a faculty member teaching credit instruction or a faculty member teaching noncredit instruction established pursuant to Section 87356 or the qualifications to serve as a faculty member established pursuant to Section 87359.

SECTION 1.Section 87709 is added to the Education Code, to read:
87709.
Artificial intelligence shall not be used to replace faculty for purposes of providing academic instruction to, and regular interaction with, students in a course of instruction, and may only be used as a peripheral tool to support faculty in carrying out those tasks for uses such as course development, assessment, and tutoring.