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This record group contains extensive documentation relating to the foundation, operation, and growth of Broward College (formerly Junior College of Broward County) from earliest local advocacy and planning through organizational and administrative development. Key contents include:

This collection documents Grady Drake's professional and personal legacy at Broward College. It includes founding correspondence, contracts, awards, photographs, administrative records, annual reports, evaluations, community event memorabilia, retirement keepsakes, and personal notes exchanged with the first college president and other key figures. The files cover library development, faculty leadership, professional contributions, interaction with civic organizations, and Drake's ongoing relationships with colleagues from 1960 through his passing in 2019.

This collection contains 40 scrapbooks documenting student life, academic programs, and theatrical productions at Broward Junior College (later Broward College) from 1961 to 2009. Materials include photographs, clippings, event programs, and ephemera related to student organizations, biology field trips, honors projects, and performances staged at Bailey Hall. The collection offers a vivid record of campus culture and the college's commitment to arts and community engagement.

This collection documents the earliest years of JCBC, capturing college finances, administrative reporting, campus planning and development, academic program surveys, publications, catalogs, and faculty records. It includes annual budgets, financial reports, college business periodicals, facilities surveys, student retreat programs, institutional self-study documentation, directories, personnel applications, and original correspondence between early administrators. Many materials are booklets or program documentation from 1960 through 1966, with a few later additions reflecting ongoing formative developments.

This collection includes outgoing correspondence between UCL, FAU, and FIU faculty (1989–1995), faculty and new hire documentation, education facility specifications, records of the Bailey Hall closure, collective bargaining and union materials (United Faculty of Florida), and institutional collections (e.g., the GEGULD Collection). The records reflect academic leadership, organizational development, and decision-making in a key period for Broward College's libraries and upper-level academic management.