Agenda

1) Welcome & Attendance
     a) Recognition of New Panel Members
Jer-Pin Chong, University of Illinois at Chicago
Pamela Geddes, Northeastern Illinois University
Richard Musser, Western Illinois University
Welcome to the panel and thanks for being willing to serve!

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
4 New Courses
1 Resubmitted New Courses
10 Ongoing Review Courses
12 Resubmitted Ongoing Review Courses
27 Total Courses

New Courses
IAICode: L1903
Institution: Concordia University Chicago
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO-2500: Fundamentals of Microbiology

IAICode: L1900
Institution: Illinois Institute of Technology
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 105: Introduction to Biology

IAICode: L1901L
Institution: Southwestern Illinois College
Institution Course Number/Name: Biol 151: Plants and Society

IAICode: L1901L
Institution: Truman College (Harry S) (CCC)
Institution Course Number/Name: BOTANY 201: General Botany

Resubmitted New Courses
IAICode: L1907L
Institution: Morton College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 109: Intro to Evolutionary Biology Lab

Ongoing Review Courses
IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Black Hawk College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 100: Introduction to Biology

IAICode: L1905
Institution: Harper College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 103: Humans and the Environment

IAICode: L1905
Institution: Lewis & Clark Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 145: Natural Resources & Environmental Sci

IAICode: L1905
Institution: Lincoln Trail College (IECC)
Institution Course Number/Name: LSC 1105: Environmental Biology

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Morton College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 102: Introduction to Biology

IAICode: L1905
Institution: Northern Illinois University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOS 106: Environmental Biology

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Olive-Harvey College (CCC)
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOLOGY 114: General Education Biology

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Parkland College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 101: General Biology

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

IAICode: L1905
Institution: University of Illinois at Springfield
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 106: Environmental Biology

Resubmitted Ongoing Review Courses
IAICode: L1900L
Institution: College of Lake County
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 141: Concepts in Biology

IAICode: L1905
Institution: College of Lake County
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 140: Environmental Biology without Lab

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Danville Area Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 100: Life Science I

IAICode: L1904L
Institution: Harold Washington College (CCC)
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOLOGY 115: Human Biology

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

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Kankakee Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 1504: Principles of Biology

IAICode: L1904L
Institution: Kankakee Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 1534: Human Biology

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

IAICode: L1900
Institution: Saint Xavier University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 101: Principles Mths Biology

IAICode: L1904L
Institution: Shawnee Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 115: Human Biology

IAICode: L1904
Institution: Waubonsee Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 102: Human Biology

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Western Illinois University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 100: Biological Concepts

4) Panel Business
    a) Are changes needed for any of the panel’s current descriptors and/or course approval criteria?
~ Criteria document - see email Tracey 2/13 
    b) Outstanding / ongoing topics from previous panel meeting(s)
    c) Updates
    d) Other discussion items from panel members
    e) Next meeting(s):
        i) Fall '23 = Friday, November 17th, 2023, at 10:00 to 2:30 pm, via Zoom, in-person TBD/Normal, IL 
       ii)Spring '24 = TBD in Fall '23 meeting
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Panel Approval Ratio
Panel: [GenEd] Life Sciences Panel
Semester Fall 2022
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Ongoing Courses = 23
New Courses = 6
Total Courses = 29
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Approved Ratio = 44.83%
Conditional Approved Ratio = 3.45%
Approved & Conditional Ratio = 48.28%
Non-Approved Ratio = 51.72%
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.