Broward College Central Campus Student Defense Lawyer — Davie

Broward College’s nursing programs sit at the A. Hugh Adams Central Campus in Davie. The ACEN accreditation statement names the campus specifically — the associate degree nursing program at Broward College “at the Central Campus, located in Davie, Florida” — and Broward treats its other campuses and off-campus sites as accredited derivatively of Central as the parent campus. The Health Sciences Simulation Center is here as well.

Why a health-program dismissal is a different case

A student removed from a selective health program is rarely removed by the student conduct office. The decision comes from a program committee applying a program handbook — a document carrying progression rules, clinical-performance standards, attendance limits, drug-screen provisions and automatic dismissal clauses that the college-wide conduct code never mentions. It usually has its own appeal ladder and its own deadlines, and those deadlines are often shorter than the college-wide ones. Where the two documents conflict, the handbook is what the program applies — but the college code appeal should be preserved rather than abandoned.

The stakes are also different. Clinical hours do not transfer readily, cohort places are limited, and admission to another program requires disclosure of the dismissal. For licensure-track programs there is a further layer: a dismissal recorded as involving dishonesty, a patient-safety concern or a positive drug screen becomes a disclosure item on a licensure application years later. The wording of the decision letter therefore matters as much as the outcome, and it is worth negotiating.

The withdrawal trap

Broward’s nursing rules count a withdrawal after the drop/add period as a course failure for progression purposes. A student who withdraws to protect a GPA, on ordinary academic advice, can therefore use up a progression attempt without realizing it — and a second such event ends the program place. The route out is an extenuating-circumstances submission with 14 days to provide documentation, and Broward’s manual states that the chain of command and the appeal process must be followed and that appeals cannot be submitted outside of the process. Meanwhile the college-wide grade-appeal policy and complaint process run on their own separate clock.

Broward’s associate degree nursing program passed 73.43% of 429 first-time candidates in 2025, against a statutory floor of 76.05%. What Fla. Stat. section 464.019(5) does when a program falls below that floor is set out on the Florida nursing program pass-rate page.

Venue

Broward County is in the Southern District of Florida under 28 U.S.C. section 89(c), Fort Lauderdale Division.

This is a public college, so Fla. Stat. section 1006.60(3) applies in full — including subsection (3)(g), the right to be accompanied by counsel at a disciplinary proceeding, and subsection (3)(b), which puts the burden on the college rather than the student. What those rights do and do not include is set out on the Florida student defense page.

What can a student defense lawyer do here?

• Check whether a withdrawal has been counted as a failure before accepting the college’s progression arithmetic.
• Make the extenuating-circumstances submission inside 14 days and inside the stated chain of command.
• Get the current program handbook and the edition in force at enrollment, and identify which one the college is applying.
• Separate the academic-progression question from any conduct allegation — different processes, different deadlines.
• Press on the wording of the decision letter, because it follows the student into licensure and transfer applications.
• Preserve both the program appeal and the college-wide appeal, and work to the shorter deadline.
• Keep the 30-day certiorari window under Fla. R. App. P. 9.100(c) open while the internal appeal runs.

The main college page is here: Broward College student defense.

Other Florida colleges

Every school writes its own dismissal, appeal and conduct rules, and the filing deadlines are rarely the same from one campus to the next. These pages set out the procedure at other Florida colleges:

• Care Hope College
• CF Jack Wilkinson Levy Campus
• Chipola College
• City College Closed — Student Rights
• College of Central Florida
• Daytona Beach

Common questions about Broward College Central Campus cases

Where are Broward College’s nursing programs accredited?

At the A. Hugh Adams Central Campus in Davie. The ACEN statement names that campus, and Broward treats its other sites as accredited derivatively of Central as parent campus.

I withdrew from a nursing course. Does that count against me?

At Broward it can. A withdrawal after the drop/add period counts as a failure for progression purposes, so a withdrawal taken on ordinary academic advice can consume a progression attempt without the student realizing it.

What is the extenuating-circumstances route?

Broward’s nursing manual allows a submission with 14 days to provide documentation, and states that the chain of command and appeal process must be followed and that appeals cannot be submitted outside the process. The college-wide grade appeal runs separately.

Which court hears a Broward College case?

The Southern District of Florida, Fort Lauderdale Division. Broward County is in the Southern District under 28 U.S.C. section 89(c).