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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’s plan to offer 300-level courses in interior design is on hold for now.

300-level courses face unsure future at AACC

Bethany Probst, Co-Editor January 23, 2019

The Maryland Higher Education Commission has stalled AACC’s plan to offer 300-level courses for students hoping to become interior designers or physician assistants. After AACC proposed offering...

Students signing up for eight-week classes can finish their degrees at a faster pace than students who strictly take 15-week classes.

111 new 8-week sections arrive

Bethany Probst, Co-Editor January 23, 2019

AACC will offer 111 more eight-week classes this semester than it did last spring. The college is running 408 eight-week sections of 177 courses this semester. The traditional semester is 15 weeks....

AACC and four other colleges will work together to assure classes like genetics will prepare transfer students for UMBC.

Bio grant helps students pass

Alex Fregger, Co-Editor January 23, 2019

A grant worth more than $2 million from the National Science Foundation will help prepare AACC students who plan to major in biology when they transfer to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. According...

Assistant Dean Marjorie Rawhouser is one of three assistant deans on campus. AACC will have 13 assistant deans total starting in July.

Search begins for new AACC assistant deans

Alex Fregger, Co-Editor January 23, 2019

AACC posted job listings for eight new assistant dean positions on Dec. 14. The college will hire assistant deans for literacy and communications; health and wellness; mathematics; science; social sciences...

Construction on the Health and Life Sciences Building reroutes Ring Road through Lot C.

Construction reroutes roads, causes detours

Chance Iheoma, Co-Editor January 23, 2019

AACC’s construction project has redirected the flow of traffic for the new year. The ongoing construction of AACC’s new Health and Life Sciences Building, which began last summer, has led to multiple...

$1m donors name new skilled trades building

$1m donors name new skilled trades building

Sarah Noble and Alexandra Radovic January 23, 2019

Long-time donors to the college donated $1 million toward AACC’s new trade building and named it the Clauson Center for Innovation and Skilled Trades. The donors, Janet and James Clauson, are community...

AACC business professor Shad Ewart has proposed a medical cannabis certificate.

Medical cannabis cert. in evaluation by school

Daniel Salomon, Co-Editor January 23, 2019

A proposal for a 16-credit medical cannabis specialist certificate stalled in the fall as college officials waited to learn which candidates would win the Anne Arundel County executive and council seats. According...

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,...

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...

Police Chief Sean Kapfhammer (left) poses with three of the four former SWAT officers who work at AACC: Capt. Dave Pressley, Maj. Cleveland Smith and Officer Don Medtart.

Former SWAT members enforce campus safety

Mike Pierorazio, Reporter December 4, 2018

It’s about 1 a.m. in Baltimore, when the smell of smoke from burning trash and towels leaks out from under a closed front door. The sniper covering the rear of the house confirms over the radio that...

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