Agenda

1) Welcome & Attendance
     a) Recognition of New Panel Members
2) Zoom: Please mute yourself when not speaking, use the chat box to ask questions or easily add to the discussion, and drop a note in chat if you have to step away from the meeting for an extended period of time.
3) Course Review & Decision Options:
    a) Anything we need to discuss before looking at the submitted courses?
        -Science Process Skill document from last semester?
    b) Course Decision Options: Quick Accepts, Accepted, Conditional Approval, Not Enough Info, & Return

Courses For Panel Review
2 New Courses
3 Resubmitted New Courses
11 Ongoing Review Courses
8 Resubmitted Ongoing Review Courses
24 Total Courses

New Courses
IAICode: LP900L
Institution: John A. Logan College
Institution Course Number/Name: PHS 101: Environmental Science

IAICode: LP901
Institution: John A. Logan College
Institution Course Number/Name: PHS 111: Environmental Science II

Resubmitted New Courses
IAICode: L1904L
Institution: Lewis & Clark Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 132: Human Biology

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: National Louis University
Institution Course Number/Name: SCI 105: Environmental Biology with Lab

IAICode: L1901L
Institution: Olive-Harvey College (CCC)
Institution Course Number/Name: BOTANY 201: General Botany I

Ongoing Review Courses
IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Concordia University Chicago
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 2011: General Biology I

IAICode: L1903L
Institution: Eastern Illinois University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 1004G: Practical Microbiology

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Illinois Central College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 110: Life Science

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Illinois Valley Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 1001: General Biology I

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: John A. Logan College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 100: Biology For Non-Science Majors

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Lewis & Clark Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 130: Fundamentals of Biological Science

IAICode: L1906L
Institution: Parkland College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 186: Heredity and Society

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Rend Lake College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 1100: College Biology for Non-Majors

IAICode: L1903
Institution: Rock Valley College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 150: Microbes and Society

IAICode: L1903L
Institution: Rock Valley College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 152: Microbes & Society Laboratory

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Wilbur Wright College (CCC)
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOLOGY 114: General Education Biology

Resubmitted Ongoing Review Courses
IAICode: L1901L
Institution: Chicago State University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 1070: Biological Science Survey I with lab

Institution: Chicago State University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 1080: Biological Science Survey II

Institution: John Wood Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 105: Human Biology

Institution: Northern Illinois University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOS 103: General Biology

Institution: Northern Illinois University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOS 105: General Biology Laboratory

Institution: Northern Illinois University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOS 109: Human Biology

Institution: Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Institution Course Number/Name: PLB 117: Intro to Ethnobotany & Economic Botany

Institution: University of Illinois at Chicago
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOS 104: Biology for Non-majors

4) Panel Business
    a) Are changes needed for any of the panel’s current descriptors and/or course approval criteria?
    b) Outstanding / ongoing topics from previous panel meeting(s)
        - Final review and discussion of proposed changes to the panel’s course approval criteria with regards to science process skills. See document from Tracey Dosch sent on October 17th.
    c) Updates
    d) Other discussion items from panel members
    e) Next meeting(s):
        i) Spring ’22 = Friday, March 18th, at 10:00 am at a venue TBD and via Zoom web conference
       ii) Fall ’22 = Friday, October 21st, at 10:00 am at a venue TBD and via Zoom web conference

Panel Approval Ratio
Panel: [GenEd] Life Sciences Panel
Semester Academic 2020 - Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
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Ongoing Courses = 47
New Courses = 20
Total Courses = 67
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Approved Ratio = 40.30%
Conditional Approved Ratio = 4.48%
Approved & Conditional Ratio = 44.78%
Non-Approved Ratio = 55.22%
Total Ratio = 100.00%
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Special Notes:
· 1 or 2 short breaks may be scheduled or added as needed during a fully virtual panel meeting.
· IAI staff are happy to accommodate the scheduling and facilitation of additional virtual meetings throughout the year if needed to discuss proposed descriptors, etc.