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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

Active Minds Club members

Many clubs to start semester with no funding

Jenna Lagoey, Senior Reporter August 29, 2022

Student clubs will begin the school year without funding for events and trips, unlike in prior years when the Student Government Association approved their budgets in the spring. Office of Student Engagement...

Melissa Boling

School offers mental health appointments

D'Angelo Williams, Reporter August 29, 2022

Those who suffer from mental health issues should seek help for their struggles, an AACC therapist said. Melissa Boling, a personal counselor at AACC, said the campus makes mental health resources available...

The Riverhawks men's and women's soccer teams started their seasons on Aug. 25.

Riverhawks men’s and women’s soccer underway

Dan Elson, Sports Editor August 29, 2022

Men’s soccer head coach Nick Cosentino will enter into his 17th year coaching the Riverhawks. Last season the team finished 8-6. The Riverhawks lost 8-0 in the first round of the playoffs to Richland...

Mural on the side of AACC's Arundel Center North building at the Glen Burnie Town Center campus

College expands class offerings at satellite campuses

Zack Buster, Editor-in-Chief August 29, 2022

AACC has started offering more classes and programs at the college’s Glen Burnie Town Center and Arundel Mills campuses. Students can complete four certificates—from start to finish—at the Glen...

Zack Buster

New editor takes top job this fall semester

Holden Smith, Reporter August 29, 2022

A second-year communications student became the editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper in August. Zack Buster, who served as associate editor last year, said he wants to improve the online edition of...

Hawkflex class system camera

New class system HawkFlex

Sam Gauntt, Associate Editor August 29, 2022

AACC will continue to test a new class type this fall that allows students to choose each day if they want to attend class in person or virtually. The new class type is called HawkFlex, and the college...

Graduates shown at the May ceremony.

Rate of grads rises slightly

Dan Elson, Sports Editor August 29, 2022

Approximately 1,867 Riverhawks graduated in May, including 444 who accepted their diplomas at Live! Casino & Hotel during the college's first in-person ceremony in two years. “My experience at...

Empty building on Arnold campus.

AACC to renovate old buildings on campus

Vance Wild, Reporter August 29, 2022

Over the next four years, the now-empty Florestano building on West Campus will become a hub for student services and technology. The Dragun building on the Quad, which houses physical sciences, is...

Gen-ed textbooks on a counter

Students take gen-ed classes before transfer

Sam Gauntt, Associate Editor August 29, 2022

Whether students attend community college or a university for their first couple of years of higher education, approximately one-third of the classes they take will be the same. Those classes, including...

AACC displays student art in the Health and Life
Sciences building, outside of the Humanities building
and elsewhere on campus.

AACC exhibits student art

Jenna Lagoey and Vance Wild May 19, 2022

An exhibition in the CADE gallery that runs from May 10 to June 10 will feature around 30 student artworks.  Four or five of these pieces will become part of AACC’s permanent student collection,...

Students who wear punk and grunge styles take inspiration from ’90s bands like Nirvana. Shown, firstyear fine arts student Jenna Lagoey.

Punk-grunge makes comeback at college

Zack Buster, Associate Editor May 18, 2022

The punk-grunge clothing style is making a comeback on the Arnold campus, proving punk is not dead. Punk-grunge mixes the dark colors and torn clothes of ’80s punk rock bands and the old, repurposed...

AACC's Office of Student Engagement helps conduct
surveys and focus groups to assess students' opinions on how the college can engage them better.

Focus groups reveal tips for engagement

Jenna Lagoey, Reporter May 17, 2022

Students have been participating in focus groups to help AACC administrators figure out how to keep them from dropping out of college. Hundreds of students were invited to participate in three focus...

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