Los Angeles Mission College
Department of Life Sciences
Agenda
Friday, March 11, 2016 @ 11:30am (CMS 104)
Old Business
1. Progress: scheduling/hiring for Dual Enrollment with BioTech Sylmar HS / San Fernando HS (Par)
2. Progress: hiring for CNA/HHA/HOC (Par)
3. Update: PLO revisions – General Studies & Liberal Arts in Natural Sciences (Par & Steve)
4. Progress: Contract for Steris Autoclaves (Steve & Pong)
5. Progress: Web-based APA workshops offered by the library (Par & Steve)
6. Update: Response to parking situation at CMS due to non-STEM courses (Mike & Par)
7. Progress: Rearranging Bio 6 and Bio 7 curricula; Bio 6 as a prerequisite for Bio 7. (Steve, Diane)
8. Update: Certificates in Life Sciences (Steve & Par)
9. Update: Nadine’s garden club LAMC Green Warriors; Nadine to contact Leslie Milke (Nadine)
10. Progress: Offering Biology 40 vs Biology 110 – development of BIO110 COR (Steve)
11. Update: Life Science program review, overall goals of the department, including expanding Allied
Health programs (All)
12. Progress: Platform for floor shaker backordered until 3/17/16; what to do with excess lab
supplies (Steve & Pong)
13. Update: Associate of Science - Transfer degree in Biology paperwork (Steve)
14. Update: Department SLOs update, meetings on Fall Flex Day? (Steve)
15. Progress: Meeting for BIO3 lab practical exam modifications (Diane)
16. Progress: Posting working hours on prep room door (Nadine)
17. Update: Invited speakers to come to LAMC in March to give talks about their research and
answer students’ questions. (Steve)
New Business:
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1. Life Sciences to present new courses/programs/certificates with recommendations to
counseling services (Mike, Par, & Diane)
2. Hiring a new adjunct faculty to teach Bio 3 sections in Fall 2016 (Mike)
3. Suggested new protocol for BIO3: station set-up sheet for instructors to enforce students
cleaning up and putting back all equipment (Diane)
4. Open House for 5th Graders at Harvard Elementary (Angela)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On hold:
1. Postponed: Organization of the College website (Steve) – deadline by Sept 1, 2016
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