ASDP/ARC Profile - Black Hawk College

ASDP/ARC PROFILE

BLACK HAWK COLLEGE

Institution Name:
Black Hawk College
6600 34th Av.
Moline, IL 61265-5899

Contact(s):
Dr. Mark Esposito
Department of Social Behavior & Education Studies
Email: espositom@bhc.edu

Brief Institutional Description: Comprehensive community college with 13,870 credit students. Headcount: 13,413. Full-time Faculty: 144. Part-time faculty: 195. Two campuses: Quad Cities Campus in Moline, Illinois; East Campus in Kewanee, Illinois. Largest geographical community college district in Illinois (2,200 sq. miles).

Asian/International Stage of Development: Sole Illinois Community College to require a course in Non-Western Studies for an Associate's in Art or Science. Curricula on Asia include: Agriculture of Developing Countries; Cultural Anthropology; Asian Art; International Business; Eastern Literatures; Regional Geography; Non-European Government; International Relations; History of Eastern Civilization to 1800; History of Eastern Civilization Since 1800; Comparative Religions; Global Issues; Non-Western Music; Intercultural Communication; Introductory and Intermediate Japanese.

Recent/Planned Activities: Since 1990, we have sent ten employees to ASDP (nine faculty, one administrator) - six percent of our full-time faculty. Annual International Festival in April. With Bettendorf, Iowa Public Library, we cosponsored lecture series on Vietnam war in fall, 2000.

Faculty Active in Asian Studies: Anthropology: John Hawry. Art: Marilyn Davis; Jeanne Tamisiea (ASDP alum). Business: Gwen Johnson (ASDP alum). Comparative Religions: Dorothy Beck (ASDP alum). Economics: Jim Johnson (ASDP alum). Government: Joan Eastlund (ASDP alum). History: Mark Esposito. Humanities: Isabel Hansen (ASDP alum). Japanese: Kei Shimizu. Library: Charlet Key (ASDP alum). Literature: Thomas Hamel (ASDP alum). Music: Jesse Evans. Psychology: Richard Booth (ASDP alum). Sociology: Karla Miley (ASDP alum).

Study Abroad Programs:

Grants: Recent: Japan Foundation Faculty Development Grant. Freeman Foundation Grant. Current:. In development: Title VI Foreign Language Faculty Development Grant.