Historical Notes of Interest

1990 to 2002
Capital construction and renovations at the college from totaled in excess of $84.6 million.

1997
The Arts Center main theater is used for the first time. The college's Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra conducts the first public cultural event in the center.

1996
The Arts Center Complex opens. The first classes are held in the Art and Music Wings.

1996
The Positive Retirement through Imaginative Education (Prime Time) is established and serves approximately 700 senior citizens annually with non-credit continuing education opportunities.

1994
Raider men's basketball team won the National Junior College Basketball title. That same year the women's basketball team finished third in the nation.

1993
The Robert L.F. Sikes Center opens in Crestview.

1992
The Fort Walton Beach Campus opens effective Fall semester

1990's
The college received a gift of a collection of more than 350 pieces of art by Emil Holzhauer in The collection today is valued at approximately $8 million and is housed in the Art Center Galleries. The Galleries also house important Holzhauer memorabilia and resource materials.

August 1990
Groundbreaking for the Fort Walton Beach Campus.