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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

Student trustee Jordan Foley

Naval officer becomes new student trustee

Nastya Mack, Reporter September 9, 2021

A second-year culinary student who owns a food truck became a member of the AACC Board of Trustees this summer.   Gov. Larry Hogan appointed Jordan Foley, a lieutenant in the Navy, to a one-year...

Fall 1974 student union groundbreaking

AACC celebrates 60th anniversary

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief September 9, 2021

AACC turned 60 this year amid a lingering pandemic that could limit the celebration. College officials have created a 60th anniversary logo for the college's website, T-shirts, banners and giveaways...

Esports gamers

Esports to join Athletic Department

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief September 8, 2021

AACC plans to start an intramural esports team sometime this fall and expand it to a varsity team in the spring, the athletic director told Campus Current earlier this month. Esports--or electronic...

SGA President Ben Nussbaumer

SGA VPs elect new president

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief September 7, 2021

The Student Government Association’s executive board elected its new president in a special election over the summer. The board held the unusual election because no candidates ran for president last...

Health and Life Sciences Building

175,000-sq-ft building opens on campus

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief September 2, 2021

The new Health and Life Sciences building opened on the Arnold campus Aug. 11 after two years of construction. The building will house the college’s growing nursing program, along with other health...

Students back on campus

Students ‘excited’ to be back on campus

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief September 1, 2021

AACC students on the Arnold campus for their first day of school said they are excited to attend classes in person this semester after learning remotely for a year and a half because of the pandemic. In...

Dominic Salacki,, Campus Current's new editor-in-chief-in-chief

Media production student becomes Campus Current editor

Nastya Mack, Reporter August 31, 2021

A fourth-year media production student became the editor-in-chief of AACC’s student newspaper in August.   Dominic Salacki, who earned a bachelor's degree in mass communication from Towson University...

COVID vaccine

AACC campuses reopen with vaccine mandate

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief August 30, 2021

AACC will require students returning to campus this fall to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit proof of a negative COVID test every week starting Oct. 1. The same rule applies to faculty and staff,...

balance

Balancing work, school harder online, students say

Hannah Boring, Reporter May 21, 2021

Students find it more difficult to balance school with work and their personal lives when they take online classes compared with in-person classes, they said in March. In an informal Campus Current...

First-year business administration student Michael Amwoga is the Student Government Association's new vice president of finance. He is one of five new SGA officers elected by the student body during May 10-14 voting.

SGA has 5 new vice presidents

Dominic Salacki, Reporter May 18, 2021

Students elected five new executive board members for the Student Government Association last week, but the organization will begin the fall semester without a president. The newly elected vice presidents...

Audrey Wais, SGA's vice president for outreach, plans to become a vegan to do her part to stop climate change. She organized a virtual event to talk about the anxiety some students suffer because of climate change.

Anxious about climate change? You’re not alone

Ryan Oberteuffer, Reporter May 13, 2021

Students and professors agreed in April the best way to combat anxiety over climate change is to educate others about the effects of global warming.  Not feeling like you can fight climate change...

Students feeling more stress as the semester winds down should get enough sleep, eat nutritious meals and meditate, a campus nurse says.

Sleep, healthy food, exercise help relieve stress, nurse says

Dominic Salacki, Reporter May 12, 2021

One of the best ways to manage stress as finals week approaches is to get enough sleep, an AACC nurse said last week.  Seven to nine hours of sleep every night is ideal, Stephanie Jenkins said during...

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