Broward Community College - Silver Sands Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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Classes Start, Construction nderway Well, l'm saving on gas. lt's very convenient. I don't have to spend an hour and half just driving to and from college. Instead I can leave later nd get there earlier. Because l'm saving time, that's why! I These are just a couple of typical answers to the ques- lion, Why are you attending BCC North classes this year. -.ittle do these students know that as the first registered North ,ampus students, they are the pioneer students for a new cam- jus which is projected to have a student enrollment of nearly -000 in just five years. Presently the campus itself is non- 'xistent, having just recently begun construction, however, a jwakeshift North Campus, somewhat spread out over North ilroward County, does exist. From the looks of the North campus classroom loca- ons, certainly no one can say that BCC has any religious rejudices or favoritism for any one belief, since the three ocations are a Baptist Church, an Episcopalean Church and a jewish Temple. Actually the First Baptist Church of Margate, t. Martin-in-the-Field Episcopal Church and Temple Shalom .fere selected as classroom sites because each has a reasonably rge classroom complex. In Term Two both Temple Shalom d First Baptist Church of Margate will offer a wide variety if courses. Some fifty classes have been offered including purses in business education, real estate, biology, economics, lnglish, history, mathematics, psychology, sociology, Spanish hd speech. Some teachers scheduled to teach these classes hclude Neda Hill, Maxine Schenks, Hamilton Crowell and jewis Warwick. About 50 percent of the classes are night llasses, offered from 7 to I0 p.m., resulting in a large number Hi working students enrolled in the classes. As of yet, student opinion toward BCC expansion ranges om indifference to lt's about time. Because most of the -:udents will be long gone by the time construction is com- lete, they feel land plausibly soj that the new campus has efinitely come along at the right time, but there is no excite- ment or overwhelming delight over the prospect of a sparkling new campus. I suppose most of us jincluding a certain author of a new campus story who happens to live less than five miles from the proposed new campus location, but has to drive al- most thirty miles to get to the current Central Campusj feel a twinge of envy for those lucky souls who will attend BCC- North. Nevertheless, BCC expansion is imperative. An enroll- ment of 7500 students, an increase of 1500 from last year, indicates this need quite explicitly. Broward will join Miami- Dade junior College, St. Petersburg junior College and Brevard junior College as the only junior colleges in Florida with more than a single branch. The third proposed BCC Campus has been selected, but its site will be in Hollywood, making it BCC-South. Its expected completion date has been set in I974 and in Term Two a number of South Campus courses have been offered. The site for the north campus is located at Hammon-ville Road and the Florida State Turnpike in the growing commun- ity of Coconut Creek. Directly south and west of the proposed location are residential areas built in a series of interconnecting waterways. One of these canals, Coconut Creek Canal, cuts across the campus site forming an island with the Palmetto Waterway upon which a portion of the II4 acre campus prop- erty is located. Admittance to the campus during the initial phase of development will be from Hammond-ville Road, al- though later routes for access to the college are also being constructed. Upon completion, the campuses acres will be sub- divided thuslyg 40 acres for roads and parking facilities to accommodate 4000 vehicles, 40 acres for physical education, six and one half acres for the buildings, four acres will simply be canal and 23 acres of attractive landscape, pedestrian walk- way and courtyards, as well as any other required facilities. Directly in the center of the campus will be the building com- plex, while the physical education fields will border the east- ern perimeter of the campus, facing a line of attractive pine trees bounding the turnpike.

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lr i i l 4 l l is la I To improve drainage in the area, a new canal will be dug around the proposed site for the building which will create a small lake on one side, and will convert the building site into an island. A series of automobile and pedestrian bridges will be constructed for students to reach the classrooms from the parking area or the physical education fields. ln mid-October the first permanent building was begun at the north edge of the campus site, by the Ray-Cliff Con- struction Company. This structure is the interim classroom building which will serve as a temporary classroom location when completed April, 1971. Hopefully, the the fall of 1971, the first central classroom complex will be completed provid- ing occupancy for another five hundred students. The 1972-73 year should bring 1500 students to BCC north as the campus development continues until the culmination of the construc- tion and 6000 students are enrolled. The Perkins and Will Corporation was the architectural corporation that designed the modern and picturesque north campus. O I LQ. l AI K ' .w. . '. ,rj 4 MFT! Ii M If ff . A '1 Jw- - Kai ,-- .A Ljlg, :Ili ' l -Q 1 . li l ' fi -,, V i- . '.,5a,,.,- .Lf1 ' ' .. v' .' ' 1 .e1. ' A 'u sw 0 Q Q