Core Values | Black Hawk College

Appreciation of Diversity
We value the contributions of others who have talents and abilities, beliefs and traditions, actions and behaviors that are different than our own. We value the divergence of thoughts and ideas that make an institution of higher learning a center for the development of human potential.

Caring and Compassion
In our interactions with each other we will strive to be kind, compassionate and empathic as we work toward our collective and separate goals.

Fairness
We will endeavor to be consistent and evenhanded in our policies and procedures and dealing with others.

Honesty
We will aspire to be truthful, sincere, and candid in all aspects of our daily activities.

Integrity
We will strive to be trustworthy and honorable in our interactions with others; we do the right thing even when it is not popular or easy. We will be consistent with our values regardless of the presence or absence of audience.

Respect
We will treat others with positive regard and esteem.

Responsibility
We will be accountable, dependable, and reliable as we follow through on our commitment to teaching excellence, student learning, and service to others.

Core Values Stories at BHC
Check back each week as we share more Core Values stories.

TRiO Student Support Services offers financial literacy programs

CORE VALUE: RESPONSIBLITY We will be accountable, dependable, and reliable as we follow through on our commitment to teaching excellence, student learning, and service to others. In October, TRiO Student Support Services sponsored several events to help Black Hawk College students make informed financial decisions. “We see so many students having to drop out because [...]

BHC honors military members on Veterans Day

CORE VALUE: RESPECT We will treat others with positive regard and esteem. Black Hawk College honors, thanks and respects all those who currently serve or have served in the military, whether in wartime or peacetime. On Thursday, Nov. 10, the Quad-Cities Campus Student Life Office and the Military Students and Veterans Club will host a [...]

BHC staff demonstrate integrity by working diligently to help fellow staff members, faculty and students

CORE VALUE: INTEGRITY We will strive to be trustworthy and honorable in our interactions with others; we do the right thing even when it is not popular or easy. We will be consistent with our values regardless of the presence or absence of audience. Program coordinator Pam Davies works at the college’s Outreach Center and [...]

BHC community demonstrates honesty by returning lost items

CORE VALUE: HONESTY We will aspire to be truthful, sincere, and candid in all aspects of our daily activities. BHC students demonstrate honesty by returning lost items When Christina Tubbs found $60 on the Quad-Cities Campus, it never occurred to her to keep it. “I know how it is to lose money,” she said. “I [...]

College employees, students, community invited to participate in presidential search

CORE VALUE: FAIRNESS We will endeavor to be consistent and evenhanded in our policies and procedures and dealing with others. College employees, students, community invited to participate in presidential search During the recent search for the next president of Black Hawk College, the Board of Trustees demonstrated fairness by including members of the community, college [...]

Nursing students collect donations for shelters

CORE VALUE: CARING AND COMPASSION In our interactions with each other we will strive to be kind, compassionate and empathic as we work toward our collective and separate goals. Nursing students collect donations for shelters Students in the Black Hawk College chapter of the National Student Nurses Association have demonstrated caring and compassion with the [...]

Bazaar raises $685 for international student scholarship

CORE VALUE: APPRECIATION OF DIVERSITY We value the contributions of others who have talents and abilities, beliefs and traditions, actions and behaviors that are different than our own. We value the divergence of thoughts and ideas that make that make an institution of higher learning a center for the development of human potential. Bazaar raises [...]