Agenda

1) Welcome & Attendance
     a) Recognition of New Panel Members - NA

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
11 New Courses
3 Resubmitted New Courses
16 Ongoing Review Courses
6 Resubmitted Ongoing Review Courses
36 Total Courses

New Courses
IAICode: L1903
Institution: Danville Area Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 106: Microbes and Society

IAICode: L1903L
Institution: Danville Area Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 006: Microbes and Society Lab

IAICode: L1904
Institution: Dominican University
Institution Course Number/Name: NSC 137: Basic Human Biology

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

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: Malcolm X College (CCC)
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOLOGY 119: Environmental Biology

IAICode: L1901
Institution: Millikin University
Institution Course Number/Name: BI130: Environmental Biology

IAICode: L1905
Institution: Millikin University
Institution Course Number/Name: BI105: Ecology and Evolution

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: Millikin University
Institution Course Number/Name: BI155: Ecology and Evolution Lab

IAICode: L1904
Institution: Richland Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 106: Issues in Human Biology

IAICode: L1906
Institution: Southwestern Illinois College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL 107: Human Genetics and Inheritance

IAICode: L1902
Institution: Spoon River College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO129: Animals and Society

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

IAICode: L1904L
Institution: Lincoln Land Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO 107: Human Biology

IAICode: L1901
Institution: Triton College
Institution Course Number/Name: HRT 125: Plants and Society

Ongoing Review Courses
IAICode: L1906
Institution: Harper College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO105: Heredity, Evolution and Society

IAICode: L1906
Institution: Illinois Central College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL150: Genetics

IAICode: L1906
Institution: John A. Logan College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO225: Genetics

IAICode: L1904
Institution: Kaskaskia College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL125: Human Biology

IAICode: L1906
Institution: Lewis & Clark Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL162: Human Inheritance

IAICode: L1907
Institution: Lewis & Clark Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL173: Evolutionary Theory

IAICode: L1905
Institution: Lewis University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL10600: Introduction to Environmental Science

IAICode: L1906
Institution: Lewis University
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL10700: Human Heredity

IAICode: L1906
Institution: McHenry County College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO138: Heredity, Ethics and Society

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Moraine Valley Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO-101: Survey of Biology for Non-Majors

IAICode: L1906
Institution: Morton College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO150: Heredity and Society

IAICode: L1901
Institution: Oakton College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO109: Plants and Society

IAICode: L1906
Institution: Rock Valley College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO162: Human Heredity

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOL150: Intro to Biological Sciences I

IAICode: L1904
Institution: Triton College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIS108: Biology of Humans

IAICode: L1905L
Institution: Truman College (Harry S) (CCC)
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOLOGY119: Environmental Biology

Resubmitted Ongoing Review Courses
IAICode: L1904L
Institution: Daley College (Richard J.) (CCC)
Institution Course Number/Name: BIOLOGY115: Human Biology

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

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

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

IAICode: L1900L
Institution: Shawnee Community College
Institution Course Number/Name: BIO-111: Introduction to Biology

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

4) Panel Business
    a) Are changes needed for any of the panel’s current descriptors and/or course approval criteria?
        1) confirm and finalize the panel’s revised course approval criteria document, including clarifying language regarding field trips vs. field work and labs in the field;
         and
        2) finalize changes to the L1905/L Environmental Biology descriptor.

    b) Outstanding / ongoing topics from previous panel meeting(s)
    c) Updates
    d) Other discussion items from panel members
    e) Next meeting(s):
        i)  Fall '25 = Friday, October 24th, 2025, at 10:00 am to 2:30 pm, TBD, and via Zoom Web Conference and conference call
       ii) Spring '26 = TBD, 2026 meeting announced at the fall meeting
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Panel Approval Ratio
Panel: [GenEd] Life Sciences Panel
Semester Fall 2024
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Ongoing Courses = 34
New Courses = 13
Total Courses = 47
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Approved Ratio = 59.57%
Conditional Approved Ratio = 17.02%
Approved & Conditional Ratio = 76.60%
Non-Approved Ratio = 23.40%
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.