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The rapid development of advanced technologies is changing educational content, delivery, and administration in the State of California. The pace of innovation is likely to continue and may accelerate. The California Community Colleges must develop greater capacity to innovate and adapt to prepare students for the 21st Century economy. 

Background

The California Community Colleges Board of Governors authorized the Chancellor to establish a Digital Center for Innovation, Transformation, and Equity (Digital Center) for the benefit of students, faculty, staff, and administrators within the community college system, and for California generally. The Digital Center is established under the direction of the Chancellor, and in partnership with the Foothill-DeAnza Community College District (“Foothill-DeAnza”) with responsibilities delineated as deemed appropriate by the Chancellor and Foothill-DeAnza. The Digital Center also engages with such other additional community college districts, auxiliary organizations, community college stakeholder organizations, philanthropies, experts, businesses, and others, as appropriate to advance the mission and purposes of the Digital Center described herein. 

Digital Center Priorities 

The Digital Center leads equitable technological innovation, implementation, and scaling within the California Community Colleges for the following purposes: 

1. to advance Vision 2030 priorities;
2. to coordinate technology across the California Community Colleges, including thedevelopment of coherent strategies, system-wide data and information-sharing capacity across all institutional functions, and high-quality data standards and practices that emphasize organization, representation, and integrity;
3. to ensure timely student, faculty, staff, and administrative access to, and participation in, effective technological supports that reduce barriers to, and advance opportunities for, student success;
4. to implement and evaluate artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies, ethically, giving due consideration to potential impacts on academic freedom and integrity, pedagogy, workforce opportunity, privacy, energy and water consumption,and labor dislocation;
5. to limit costs and achieve economies of scale;
6. to contribute to the development of technology for the general good of California; and
7. for other purposes consistent with the purposes and values expressed herein.

Fulfillment of these purposes will require a continuous cycle of innovation to replace legacy systems within the California Community Colleges.  To learn more about the current work of the Digital Center, please view the September 2025 Activity Report.