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Courtney Buiniskis, an adjunct communications professor, is running for state delegate for Maryland District 30B in the general election on Nov. 8.

Adjunct runs for seat in General Assembly

Zack Buster, Editor-In-Chief September 28, 2022

An adjunct professor won the Democratic primary for the District 30B seat in the Maryland House of Delegates on July 19, while another AACC faculty member lost her primary bid in District 31B. Democrat...

Steuart Pittman speaking at an event

AACC adjunct faculty gets right to form union

Sam Gauntt, Associate Editor September 27, 2022

Some AACC adjunct faculty members are collecting signatures in an effort to form a union. A vote in the Maryland Legislature in 2021 allowed community college faculty and staff to unionize after Sept....

A kickoff meeting on Thursday prepared student entrepreneurs for a November business pitch contest that will award cash prizes.

Students learn to pitch in kickoff event

Ellianna Shields, Reporter September 22, 2022

Would-be student entrepreneurs on Thursday learned how to compete in a November competition that could earn them prizes of up to $1,000. The kickoff meeting was a prelude to November’s Big Idea Competition,...

AACC students can apply for paid internships in January working with state politicians.

Political paid internships offered for students in January

Tomi Brunton, Reporter September 22, 2022

AACC students can sign up for paid internships working with state delegates and senators starting in January when the Maryland General Assembly begins its next session. Students interested in the internship,...

Alford Shinaberry, AACC’s mailroom supervisor, will retire on Oct. 1 after 52 years with the college. His hobbies include skydiving. Shown, in a jump over Laurel Delaware.

AACC mailworker retires after 52 years

Ava Herring, Diversity Editor September 14, 2022

The employee who has worked the longest at AACC retired on Oct. 1 after 52 years in the mailroom.  Alford Shinaberry, who turns 70 in November, started working in the campus mailroom in September 1970...

Internships program coordinator Gwen Johnson says she helped start the Career Mentoring Network to help students get career advice and coaching from faculty mentors in their field.

Students get mentors, career advice this fall

Zack Buster, Editor-in-Chief September 8, 2022

Students will have the chance to work with career advisers in their fields this fall. AACC’s Sarbanes Center for Career and Civic Engagement launched a program to connect students with faculty mentors...

Academic chair of the Entrepreneurial Studies Institute Stephanie Goldenberg (right) and instructional specialist Stephen Berry oversee the Ratcliffe Entrepreneurship Scholarship.

Student entrepreneurs get scholarships, mentors

Zack Buster, Editor-in-Chief September 8, 2022

Student entrepreneurs could win $12,000 scholarships this year as part of a $300,000 donation from the Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation. Stephanie Goldenberg, the Entrepreneurial Studies...

Information desk

Student services get more on-campus hours

Sam Gauntt, Associate Editor August 29, 2022

In-person student services will be available from Monday to Thursday on the Arnold campus this fall, up from three days a week last semester. Student services include academic advising, tutoring, the...

Outside the records and registration office

Students select in-person classes

Sam Gauntt, Associate Editor August 29, 2022

AACC fall enrollment is up at least 2.3% from last year, with more students returning to in-person classes. According to Tanya Millner, provost and vice president for learning, the number of students...

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...

A mask being thrown away.

Masks, Covid-19 vax optional for students

Holden Smith, Reporter August 29, 2022

Wearing protective face masks and getting a Covid-19 vaccine will be optional in the fall semester, according to school officials Both masks and vaccines were required for at least part of last semester,...

AACC's rep to the Gun Violence Intervention Task Force poses next to Swoop, the college mascot.

College sends rep to AA County gun violence task force

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

AACC is helping Anne Arundel County’s Gun Violence Intervention Task Force raise awareness about the issue. The college’s representative on the task force, whose mission is to reduce gun-related injuries...

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