October 2012 INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW Black Hawk College (BHC) was established in 1946 and was granted official accreditation by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in March of 1951. Today, Community College District No. 503 is comprised of portions of nine Illinois counties, which include: Rock Island, Henry, Mercer, Whiteside, Henderson, Knox, Bureau, Stark, and Marshall. The college operates two primary campuses as well as other instructional centers throughout the district and serves a population in excess of 223,241. The college’s Quad-Cities (QC) campus is located in Moline, Illinois while the college’s East Campus (EC) location is in Galva, Illinois. In addition to these full-service campuses, BHC owns and/or operates facilities including Outreach Center, the Illinois workNet Center, and the Industrial Training Lab Extension Center, all in Moline, and the Adult Learning Center in Rock Island. Vision
Total accessibility, quality instructional programs, student-centered services, and strategic alliances position BHC as the preferred choice for education and training.
Mission
BHC provides the environment and resources for individuals to become lifelong learners.
Core Values
Appreciation for Diversity, Caring and Compassion, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity, Respect and Responsibility.
BHC serves nearly 3,780 non-credit students and 12,243 credit students in 53 degree and 83 occupational certificate programs. BHC’s credit student population is 27.4% minority with the additional non-credit student population comprised of 9.8% minority students. BHC’s educational degree programs, consisting of 48-baccalaureate transfer and 45 career programs, reflect BHC’s mission to provide an environment and resources in which individuals can become lifelong learners. The main educational offerings include transfer courses and programs/associate degrees, occupational associate degrees, one and two year certificates, and workforce development/corporate training programs to the constituents of district 503. Additionally, BHC serves learners entering the community college unprepared for college level courses with academic and developmental courses and support programs to help prepare them. These include developmental reading, writing, mathematics, education, English as a Second Language (ESL), General Equivalency Diploma (GED), and High School Completion. To support our learners in succeeding BHC offers: educational advisement and transfer services, financial aid, career and placement services, educational assessment and orientation , co-curricular activities, student life activities, tutoring, disability services, and library services. BHC delivers credit/non-credit instructional programs through classroom instruction, distance-learning telecourses, online, web enhanced classroom instruction, computer based/assisted instruction, learning labs, service learning, and learning abroad. In addition to traditional sixteen-week courses, BHC offers various eight-week courses, fast-paced 12-week courses mini-mesters between fall and spring terms, and independent study. Adult Education, GED, and high school completion programs are offered on a threeweek rotation and align with the local public school schedules. BHC employs approximately 805 (FY12) full and part-time faculty and staff. The employee community is organized into four collective bargaining units; the support staff represented by the UAW Local 2282; adjunct faculty by AFT Local 4939; public safety officers by Police Chapter United Professionals of BHC IEA-NEA; and full-time faculty and professional technical employees are represented by IFT Local 1836. Administrators, professional staff, and some part time staff are not unionized. Of the total employed, 379 or 47% are full-time employees. College employees are clustered within the classifications, as defined by the statute of the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB). BHC began its quality journey in 1998 with its first state Baldrige-based application to the Lincoln Foundation. As is often the experience of organizations just beginning this journey, the process ended Introduction
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