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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

AACC counselor Diane Hallila encourages students to explore their state of mind and to realize that "we're not always in a perfect state of mind."

Counselor, students discuss removing mental health stigma

Audrey Wais, Reporter May 10, 2021

The coordinator of AACC’s free counseling service told students in April that understanding the triggers that send them into depression or anxiety is a first step to getting those problems under control. Diane...

Students tell Campus Current they want the college to require  students and staff to take the COVID-19  vaccine before they come to campus in the fall.

Students favor mandatory vaccine for return to campus

Dominic Salacki, Reporter May 10, 2021

AACC students said in April the college should require everyone who comes onto campus in the fall to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. In an informal poll of 29 students, 19 told Campus...

Campus Current, AACC's digital student newspaper, wins the Student Government Association's Club of the Year award for the second time. Shown, issues of the print edition of Campus Current, which temporarily suspended publication a year ago because of the pandemic.

Campus Current is SGA Club of the Year

Dominic Salacki, Reporter May 4, 2021

The Student Government Association named AACC’s student newspaper, Campus Current, Club of the Year on Monday. The Club of the Year award is SGA’s highest honor for a student club, Adrianna Russell...

Students can take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a personality inventory, to help them pursue careers that will make them happy.

Adviser: Choose a major that fits your personality

Jazsmine Hill, Reporter May 3, 2021

Students could enjoy college and their future careers more if they choose majors and jobs that suit their personalities, an academic adviser told a virtual audience last week. Joan Sturtevant, a career...

Nine students shared $50,500 in prize money as winners of the Entrepreneurial Studies Institute's annual Business Pitch Competition on Thursday. Shown, participants in the Annapolis Social League, a sports and social network created by prizewinner Jeremiah Batucan (far right).

Student entrepreneurs take home $50,500 in seed money

Ryan Oberteuffer, Reporter April 30, 2021

Four students won $10,000 each for their business ideas at the Entrepreneurial Studies Institute’s annual Business Pitch Competition on Thursday. Another five entrepreneurs took home amounts ranging...

First-year culinary arts student Jordan Foley was one of eight entrepreneurs who showed off a start-up at Hawktrade, a virtual show sponsored by the Entrepreneurial Studies Institute.

Entrepreneurs show off start-ups at Hawktrade

Ryan Oberteuffer, Reporter April 28, 2021

Student and alumni entrepreneurs in April showcased start-ups specializing in feeding veterans, coaching members of the LGBTQ+ community and helping clients build their portfolios. Those businesses...

Nurses from AACC's Health and Wellness Center tell students that smoking can compromise lung function--an especially high risk during a pandemic.

Campus Wellness Center helps students kick the habit

Dominic Salacki, Reporter April 22, 2021

A fear of compromising their immune systems is motivating some students to quit smoking, two AACC registered nurses said Wednesday. “Right now, with COVID, this is not the time for anyone’s lungs...

The Class of 2021 will mark graduation day in a "car-mencement" on Ring Road on May 27. Shown, former Campus Current Editor-in-Chief Christian Ritchey, who graduated last spring and participated in the Class of 2020 car parade.

Class of 2021 will ride on Ring Road, not walk on stage

Hannah Boring, Reporter April 22, 2021

For the second spring in a row, AACC graduates will trade walking across a stage for driving around Ring Road on graduation day.  The college, which has been mostly closed since March 2020 because...

Student Savannah Mulvey, who attends both high school and AACC this semester, holds her adopted lizard, Spike. Like others, she says she finds comfort in having a new pet during the pandemic.

Students, faculty adopt pets to keep them company during pandemic

Cristian Perez, Reporter April 20, 2021

Some AACC students and faculty are seeking comfort during the pandemic by adopting pets. “You’re very sheltered from other people,” Ashley Abate, a second-year homeland security student, said. “It’s...

Students who fill out the FAFSA and the AACC Foundation scholarship application can choose among hundreds of awards to pursue.

AACC offers 200-plus scholarships

Dominic Salacki, Reporter April 15, 2021

Third-year hospitality management and baking and pastry arts student Barb Dahl has three scholarships: two for her culinary arts program and one for her interest in becoming an entrepreneur. “I just...

Triplets Nate, Jake and Ben Nussbaumer (left to right) say working with life coaches helped them set short-term and long-term goals.

Free life coaches help students set goals, priorities

Dominic Salacki, Reporter April 15, 2021

Students who struggle with setting goals and creating better habits can get some help from professors who are also life coaches—for free.  Approximately 150 full-time and part-time AACC faculty...

Math tutors helped students with the grade of Incomplete finish their courses last semester in a new program called Project to Complete Incompletes.

Project to Complete Incompletes helps math students finish classes

Dominic Salacki, Reporter April 14, 2021

With math students requesting the grade of Incomplete in the double digits during the spring and fall 2020 semesters, faculty members came up with a plan to help them catch up and pass their courses: They...

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