Tables dot the campus for students to eat, study, or relax with friends while black olive and umbrella trees provide shade.

BCC and Broward County teamed up to open the North Campus Outreach Center in September of 1987. The college also opened the Carver Ranches Outreach Facility in Hollywood and a third facility on Sistrunk Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. They were designed to provide access to college and social service agencies, but did not produce the results the partners had hoped to achieve.

In 1992, the Tigertail Watersports Center joined with the Center for Business and Industry to establish the Ropes Challenge Course. The course is a series of exercises that help build teamwork and leadership skills as small groups work collaboratively to conquer specific tasks.

Although many of high challenges seem dangerous, the risk is actually minimal. The Ropes Challenge Course is used by student groups and the staff development program as well as by corporations throughout Broward County.

The Tigertail Center is utilized for other purposes, too. Here students practice safely handling hazardous waste materials.

Carlton Moore, a Fort Lauderdale city commissioner, is also among BCC's Distinguished Award winners, as is his wife, Jasmine Shirley-Moore. Carlton Moore was named a recipient in 1988 and Jasmine Shirley-Moore, an epidemiologist, was named a recipient in 1989.

Arden Dicky, assistant vice president for circulation and call centers for Knight-Ridder Newspapers, is another recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award. He also serves on the BCC Foundation board of directors.

Kimara March, who had been home-schooled until she began classes at BCC, was named Florida Community College Student of the Year by Florida Leader magazine in 1997. Also a member of the USA Today All-America Academic Team, March went on to the University of Florida, then to medical school at Georgetown University.

Electronic engineer Terry Glatt was awarded his Distinguished Alumni Award in 1996 by Dr. Jean Hunter, vice president for academic affairs.

Some of BCC's best and brightest have returned to the college. Dr. Irmgard Bocchino, a Distinguished Alumni Award recipient in 1989, is now the director of the college's acclaimed Honors Institute.