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AACC makes changes to PTO policy

AACC makes changes to PTO policy

Lily Peaper, Associate Editor March 14, 2025

AACC staff will no longer receive frontloaded Paid Time Off (PTO) on July first. Staff members now have to accrue any vacation days they plan to take, rather than get them all at once. In previous years,...

AACC will host Women's History Month events throughout March.

Events feature female history

Waleska Cruz, Features Editor March 3, 2025

AACC will celebrate Women’s History Month in March with a dozen events. Every year representatives from different departments on campus create events for faculty, staff and students to celebrate the...

AACC advises faculty to notify police if immigration officials approach them on campus.

College offers advice for responding to ICE

Lily Peaper, Associate Editor February 28, 2025

AACC President Dawn Lindsay in February told faculty and staff to call the campus police if they encounter Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, officers on campus. Echoing similar guidance from...

President Donald Trump’s many executive orders include some that could affect diversity programs on college campuses.

Task force to monitor impact of exec orders

Lily Peaper, Associate Editor February 27, 2025

AACC President Dawn Lindsay has created a task force to monitor the potential impact on the college of President Donald Trump’s many executive orders. Vice Presidents Melissa Beardmore and Felicia...

AACC’s budget for fiscal year 2026 includes a $5 per-credit-hour increase in tuition.

Bd. of Trustees votes to raise tuition by $5

Jose Gonzalez, Editor-in-Chief February 27, 2025

AACC’s Board of Trustees approved a $145.1 million operating budget on Feb. 25 that includes an increase in tuition of $5 per credit hour starting in the fall. The fiscal year 2026 budget, which is...

Second-year kinesiology student Meredith Dales is the new Student Government Association president.

Kinesiology student is new SGA president

Jose Gonzalez, Editor-in-Chief February 27, 2025

A second-year kinesiology student is the new Student Government Association president. Meredith Dales, 41, won against first-year engineering student Chris Chambers in the online election, which ended...

Two students, second-year kinesiology student Meredith Dales, left, and first-year engineering student Chris Chambers, are the president candidates for the Student Government Association.

2 students run for SGA president

Jose Gonzalez, Editor-in-Chief February 21, 2025

Two students are running for Student Government Association in a special election that ends Sunday.  The candidates are Meredith Dales, a second-year kinesiology student, and Chris Chambers, a first-year...

AACC will hold the Impact and Excellence 2025 Awards ceremony on April 24.

AACC sets date for award ceremony

Jose Gonzalez, Editor-in-Chief February 17, 2025

AACC will honor student and faculty accomplishments at the 2025 Impact and Excellence Awards ceremony on April 24.  The event will be at the Doubletree by Hilton Annapolis Hotel. The deadline for nominations...

Students, staff and community members can get help with their tax returns through a federal program on campus.

Accounting students do taxes for free

Jose Gonzalez, Editor-in-Chief February 14, 2025

Volunteers are available on campus to file taxes for Maryland residents who make less than $67,000 a year.   Twenty-six students and other volunteers participate in the federal Volunteer Income Tax...

More women than men enrolled in AACC's 2024 spring semester.

Male enrollment less than female at AACC

Divine Mesumbe, Reporter January 28, 2025

Among students who enrolled at AACC for the spring 2024 semester, 61.6% were women and 38.4% were men, according to AACC’s Office of Planning, Research and Institutional Assessment. This is higher...

The college uses its own employees to clear snow from roads, sidewalks and parking lots.

Campus shuts down for snow

Waleska Cruz, Features Editor January 27, 2025

The decision about whether to close the campus because of snow starts at 4 in the morning. Vice President for Learning Resources Management Melissa Beardmore said a group of administrators monitors...

Police use radar guns when they identify areas of campus where speeding is common.

Police use radar gun to nab speeding cars

Divine Mesumbe, Reporter January 27, 2025

Campus police officers are using radar guns to warn drivers on campus to slow down and drive safely. Officers from the Department of Public Safety and Police use speed radar guns when they notice students...

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