Chemistry

     Rational:

• At the beginning of the first Lab period the Department’s Lab Manager organizes the students present in teams of two using wait listed students if registered students are not present. 

• At this point for safety concerns anyone on the wait list that has not gained access to the lab is asked to leave.

• The Lab Manager then assigns Lab kits to the teams of students and the kits are checked and signed off by the teams of students for completeness and safety concerns.

• The Lab Manager then initiates Departmental, University, State, and Federally mandated Safety Training.

• Immediately following the training, the students are then required to sign off that they have been made aware of the safety issues when taking a Laboratory course. 

• The above tasks for the Lab Manager are further exasperated by the fact that they are attempting to accomplish this task in multiple simultaneously run lab sections. 

• In addition, after the described activities, most lab sections are then required to complete their first Laboratory Experiment in the time remaining.  For the reasons described above, and the fact that the order of what needs to be accomplished and when is unalterable, the Department has the following policy on attendance of the first laboratory class.