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?
    b) Course Decision Options: Quick Accepts, Accepted, Conditional Approval, Not Enough Info, & Return

Courses For Panel Review
5 New Courses
1 Resubmitted New Courses
26 Ongoing Review Courses
8 Resubmitted Ongoing Review Courses
40 Total Courses

New Courses
IAICode: L1901L
Institution: Daley College (Richard J.) (CCC)
Institution Course Number/Name: 201: General Botany I

IAICode: L1900
Institution: Kishwaukee College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 111: General Biology Lecture & Laboratory

IAICode: L1901L
Institution: Lincoln Land Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 106: Plants and Society

IAICode: L1903
Institution: Moraine Valley Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO-103: Germs: Good, Bad, and Necessary

IAICode: L1903L
Institution: Rend Lake College
Institution Course Number/Name: MICR 1111: MICROBIOLOGY

Resubmitted New Courses
IAICode: L1906
Institution: Moraine Valley Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO-105: Human Genetics

Ongoing Review Courses
IAICode: L1905
Institution: Black Hawk College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL200: Environmental Bio-Human Impact

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: College of DuPage
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOLO1110: Environmental Biology

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: College of Lake County
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO120: Environmental Biology

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Elgin Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO108: Biology for Contemporary

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: Elgin Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO115: Environmental Biology

IAICode: L1905
Institution: Governors State University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL1200: Environmental Biology

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: Governors State University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL1201: Environmental Biology Laboratory

IAICode: L1900
Institution: Harper College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO101: Biology Survey

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: Heartland Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL145: Conservation Ecology

IAICode: L1904
Institution: Highland Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL145: Human Biology

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: Highland Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL116: Introduction to Ecology

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: Illinois Central College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL114: Environmental Biology

IAICode: L1905
Institution: Illinois Valley Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO1000: The Global Environment

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Joliet Junior College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO104: Biological Diversity

IAICode: L1902L
Institution: Joliet Junior College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO106: Animals and Society

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: Kankakee Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL1584: Environmental Biology

IAICode: L1904
Institution: Lewis University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL10800: Intro to Human Biology

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: Lincoln Land Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO104: Life in the Environment

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: McHenry County College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO130: Environmental Field Biology

IAICode: L1905
Institution: Northeastern Illinois University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 104: The Changing Natural Environment

IAICode: L1904L
Institution: Parkland College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO105: Human Biology

IAICode: L1902L
Institution: Rend Lake College
Institution Course Number/Name: ZOO1101: General Zoology

IAICode: L1900
Institution: Sauk Valley Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO104: Introductory Biology

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: South Suburban College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO102: Introductory Biol

IAICode: L1902L
Institution: Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Institution Course Number/Name: ZOOL118: Principles of Animal Biology

IAICode: L1903
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Institution Course Number/Name: MCB100: Introductory Microbiology

Resubmitted Ongoing Review Courses
IAICode: L1900L
Institution: College of Lake County
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 123: Principles of Biology

IAICode: L1902
Institution: Lincoln Land Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 108: Animal Biology

IAICode: L1901L
Institution: McHenry County College
Institution Course Number/Name: HRT 103: Introduction to Plant Science

IAICode: L1901L
Institution: Rend Lake College
Institution Course Number/Name: BOT 1101: PLANTS AND SOCIETY

IAICode: L1900
Institution: Rock Valley College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 103: Introductory Life Science

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Rock Valley College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 104: Introductory Life Science Lab

IAICode: L1900
Institution: Triton College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIS 113: Introduction to General Biology

IAICode: L1900
Institution: Waubonsee Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 100: Introduction to Biology

4) Panel Business
    a) Are changes needed for any of the panel’s current descriptors and/or course approval criteria?
~ Review and finalize the new checklist, Bryan and subcommittee
    b) Outstanding / ongoing topics from previous panel meeting(s)
    c) Updates
    d) Other discussion items from panel members
~ LP courses discussion
    e) Next meeting(s):
        i) Fall '24 = Friday, November 15th, 2024, at 10:00 am to 2:30 pm TDB and Zoom
       ii) Spring '25 = TBA at the Fall '24 meeting
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Panel Approval Ratio
Panel: [GenEd] Life Sciences Panel
Semester Fall 2023
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Ongoing Courses = 28
New Courses = 9
Total Courses = 37
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Approved Ratio = 48.65%
Conditional Approved Ratio = 8.11%
Approved & Conditional Ratio = 56.76%
Non-Approved Ratio = 43.24%
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.