Mission:

Vision:

The Phoenix College Biology Department strives to promote current bioscience education through a dynamic and broad curriculum and relationships with health care, biotechnology, and environmental organizations in the community.

Goals:

1. To facilitate an accessible, safe, and respectful learning environment for students, faculty, and staff.
2. To encourage and broaden the student learning experience by employing a variety of instructional delivery methods and current technologies.
3. To ensure relevancy in bioscience education by reflecting current practices and technology used by industry and research in health care, biotechnology and environmental areas.
4. To promote community partnerships and service learning with biotechnology, health care and environmental organizations to assist students in developing skills to apply in the work force.
5. To maintain a diverse and professional faculty and staff base, to employ trained biological scientists as faculty, and to encourage professional growth for every person in the Department.
6. To introduce students to the variety of career opportunities in the biosciences.