History
Black Hawk College is a community college with campuses located in Moline and in Galva (5 miles (8 km) south of Kewanee). Founded in 1946 as Moline Community College, it became Black Hawk College in 1961. It offers courses in the traditional liberal arts, vocational education, and adult education.
Since Moline Community College was founded in 1946, it was colocated with Moline High School in the Beling Building on 16 Street, Moline. The high school moved to new facilities in 1958. Illinois Governor Otto Kerner appointed nine members to the newly created Illinois Junior College Board in August, 1965. In 1966, Steve Ferry, president of the Black Hawk College Student Council, and Dr. Charles Carlson, Dean of Students, worked together to inform the community about the importance of voting 'YES' for the upcoming referendum. The Stuart Jamieson Farm was offered as a gift to the college, provided the college would erect a new building (6600 34th Avenue, the current site of the Moline Black Hawk College Campus). The referendum passed and construction began. The first new building broke ground in 1967.
In 1967, the college expanded operations to Kewanee, Illinois, and in 1971, opened the East Campus just south of Kewanee, in Galva, which also houses the agriculture and horticulture programs. The Illinois Community College Board approved the college as one college with two campuses in 1989.
In addition to the full-service campuses in Moline and Kewanee (Galva), the college owns the Outreach Center in East Moline, the Adult Learning Center (formerly the Technology Center) in Rock Island, and the Community Education Center in Kewanee, and leases space at the Illinois workNet Center in Moline.
The college employs more than 400 full-time and 350 part-time employees at both campuses.
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