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The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

Keisha Rivera (Left) and Michael Amwoga help community members file tax returns for free.

Volunteers give free tax assistance

Tomi Brunton, Associate Editor February 13, 2023

Volunteers on campus will complete students’ tax returns for free until April 8. The program, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, or VITA, will offer free tax preparation to students, faculty, staff...

Speed networking event

Students network with local business owners

Micah Smith, Reporter February 10, 2023

Students looking to make connections or start a business met with local business leaders and AACC business management faculty at a speed networking event on Wednesday. Teri Kotkiewicz, academic chair...

Christina Thurston, the program operations coordinator in the School of Health Sciences, hosted a documentary showing on the Arnold campus on Thursday.

Health Sciences coordinator hosts documentary showing

Izzy Chase, Reporter February 10, 2023

An AACC faculty member hosted a documentary screening on Thursday that examines the lack of education surrounding ethnic hair care. Christina Thurston, the program operations coordinator in the School...

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Panelists explain Judaism as mix of religion, culture, history

February 9, 2023

A group of Jewish faculty and staff members on Thursday advocated for the college to cancel classes on high holy days. An online event called “Courageous Conversations” focused on dispelling misconceptions...

Students can earn up to $25,000 in prizes from the Business Pitch competition in April.

Students prepare for $100,000 competition

Tomi Brunton and Cole Popov February 8, 2023

Entrepreneurial students took their first steps on Monday and Tuesday toward competing for scholarships and cash prizes to help them start their own businesses. Stephanie Goldenberg, the academic director...

A panel with a Maryland chief judge and a state delegate talked about recent legislation including cannabis and abortion policy.

Judge, Delegate talk recent Md. legislation

Zack Buster, Editor-in-Chief February 8, 2023

A District Court judge and a Maryland delegate told an audience of approximately 40 students and faculty on Wednesday that legalizing recreational cannabis is among the most important laws the state Legislature...

Students chose albums like “The Forever Story” by rap artist JID and “American Heartbreak” by country artist Zach Bryan as the best releases of 2022.

Students weigh in on best albums of 2022

Cole Popov, Reporter February 8, 2023

AACC students in January chose the rap album “The Forever Story” by JID as their favorite musical release of 2022.  In an informal Campus Current survey of 50 students on the Arnold campus, more...

Students can earn degrees or a certificate in game development or design while building a digital portfolio.

Students learn development, design in video game classes

Zack Buster, Editor-in-Chief February 7, 2023

Approximately 125 students are enrolled in a program at AACC that teaches them how to develop, design or code video games.  Students can earn a transfer degree in game art and design, or a career degree...

Second-year astronomy student Zoe Brunton uses a telescope at a comet viewing party on Saturday.

Community gathers to view rare comet

Alex Sorto, Reporter February 6, 2023

Students, staff and local community members gathered to see a once-in-a-lifetime comet pass through the solar system at the college on Saturday. The Super Science Club hosted the event at the AACC Observatory...

Winnie Shabazz

Students, faculty set goals at new years workshop

Micah Smith, Reporter February 2, 2023

Students and faculty created short and long-term goals for their year at a workshop on the Arnold campus on Tuesday.  Participants at the event, hosted by First-Year Experience, created specific, measurable,...

Doug Byerly and Emily Sergo perform in Opera AACC's production of Sweeney Todd.

AACC holds longest running comm. college opera program

Andrea Bridgett and Tomi Brunton February 1, 2023

AACC’s 22-year-old opera company has been continuously running longer than the programs at any other community college in the country. Founded in 2001 by music professor and artistic director Doug...

Students and faculty connected labels with each identity or group they belong to at an event on the Arnold campus on Thursday.

Students share their identities at Welcome Week event

Sam Gauntt, Managing Editor January 31, 2023

Students and faculty chose labels to describe their identities and turned them into a short-term art installation in the Student Union building on Thursday.  The “Share a Pizz-a Your Identity”...

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