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Campus Current says manage your time, get sleep and stay off your phone during finals week.

Campus Current staff members offer tips to survive the last days of finals week

Sarah Noble, Multimedia December 12, 2018

Want to survive the last few days of final exams? Follow these steps that Campus Current staff members swear by. While studying: Some exams cover material you learned at the beginning of the semester....

Active Minds hosts Fidos for Final, an event for students to interact with dogs to de-stress with finals.

Active Minds hosts Fidos for Finals

Alex Fregger, Technology Editor December 12, 2018

A student club invited a service dog charity to help students de-stress during finals week. The Active Minds club invited Fidos for Freedom to bring their service dogs on campus as a way for students...

Dr. Jill Loukides, a professor of 14 years at the college, passed away suddenly on Nov. 29.

Biology professor passes away Nov. 29

Sarah Noble, Multimedia Editor December 5, 2018

An AACC professor, who was recently ranked as emeritus status, passed away Friday Nov. 29. Dr. Jill Loukides, a professor who taught at AACC for 14 years, passed suddenly, according to Dr. Mike Gavin,...

Carole Ratcliffe, who donated more than $1 million to AACC’s entrepreneurship program, passed away the weekend of Nov. 10.

Foundation co-founder, $1M donor dies in Nov.

Sarah Noble, Multimedia Editor December 4, 2018

Carole Ratcliffe, a long-time donor and supporter of AACC’s Entrepreneurial Studies Institute, passed away in November. Ratcliffe was best known for co-founding the Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe...

AACC student and mom Morgan Mitchell attends a Thanksgiving luncheon with her daughter Jade at the Child Development Center, which will offer free evening care next semester.

Campus starts free night care starts on campus

Alexandra Radovic, Editor-in-Chief December 4, 2018

The college’s Child Development Center will start offering free evening child care in January. The addition of evening hours, which the campus Child Development Center, or CDC, has not offered since...

Chiropractor Dr. Cameron Hatam talks at a Health and Wellness Club seminar in November about a common injury called “text neck.”

Looking at phones may cause neck injury, pain

Arianna Beers, Reporter December 4, 2018

Neck pain caused by looking down at cellphones poses a problem for students, according to a chiropractor who spoke on campus in November. Dr. Cameron Hatam, who spoke to members of the student Health...

Dave Meng, the department chair for English and communications (right), and professor Candice Hill discuss upcoming English course changes.

Gen ed English classes will change in fall 2019

Alexandra Radovic, Editor-in-Chief December 4, 2018

AACC students must take three more credits of English in order to earn an associate degree, starting next fall. Current students who placed high on the Accuplacer test or took the SAT and earned a high...

Students from AACC can transfer up to 70 credits from the college to Stevenson University. This is part of an articulation agreement, or course-matching partnership, AACC has with the university’s business administration program.

Stevenson accepts all credits for bus. admin.

Daniel Salomon, Multimedia Producer December 4, 2018

Stevenson University this semester began accepting all credits from the AACC business administration program. AACC and Stevenson University have an articulation agreement, which is a partnership that...

This holiday season, Campus Current’s staff designed thank-you cards for soliders. Campus Current sent these cards, toiletries and a copy of the student newspaper to a unit in Afghanistan.

Campus Current sends cards, papers to troops

Ashley Sokolowski, Associate Editor December 4, 2018

Campus Current staff members made holiday cards and care packages before Thanksgiving to send to a military unit in Afghanistan for the holidays. Eleven student journalists on the newspaper team spent...

Professors report that few students fill out end-of-semester opinion forms.

Committee might alter student opinion forms

Daniel Salomon, Multimedia Producer December 4, 2018

Although AACC professors have reported that few in their classes submit student opinion forms, they said the feedback can improve their classes next semester. Student opinion forms are electronic surveys...

Third-year entrepreneurship student Emily Sokolowski does special-effects makeup and plans to start her own makeup company in the future.

Cosmetic guru chooses AACC

Alexandra Radovic, Editor-in-Chief December 4, 2018

When Emily Sokolowski was a junior in high school, she was falling down the rabbit hole that is the internet as she avoided her chemistry homework. The third-year entrepreneurship student haphazardly...

Second-year transfer studies student Giordano DeFilippo plays his guitar, which he says is the best gift he ever received.

Students say they favor personal holiday gifts

Coleman Guthrie, Reporter December 4, 2018

AACC teachers and students said they prefer exchanging meaningful gifts during the holidays, as opposed to spending money on material things. Some students on campus said they choose the presents they...

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