BHC faculty
members donate books to Macedonian school
(Sept. 13, 2004) - More than 600 books are en
route to a K-12 school in Macedonia after a successful
book drive at Black Hawk College.The Macedonia
Education Support Association (MESA) sponsored the book
donation project, and the BHC Quad-Cities Campus Faculty
Senate endorsed it, with faculty members donating
hundreds of high-quality books from their personal
libraries. Many are science, business, computer science
and English textbooks that would be nearly impossible to
obtain in Macedonia, a small eastern European nation
with 40 percent unemployment.
The gap between educational resources available to
Black Hawk College students and university students in
former Soviet Bloc nations is staggering. Students do
not have textbooks, and library resources are extremely
limited.
Dr. Arthur and Suzanne Pitz founded MESA after
working with universities in central and southeast
Europe. Arthur Pitz is a retired history professor at
Black Hawk College and Suzanne Pitz is the former
director of the BHC Teaching/Learning Center.
MESA volunteers spent two months organizing,
cataloging and packing the books. The book drive is the
first step in a long-term plan to develop an up-to-date
library at Nova School, which has agreed to make the
collection available to students, professionals and
researchers throughout Macedonia.
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(Sept.
14, 2004) - Jay Pearce's political science class
received a unique guest lecturer Sept. 14; U.S. Senate
candidate Alan Keyes. The classroom on the Quad-Cities
Campus in Moline was packed with students, news media
and visitors as Keyes spoke about the history of the
political process. He then took a few questions before
taping "Perspective" on WQPT.
