AACC this semester began requiring students to reveal during registration where they will be physically located while taking courses. The U.S. Department of Education instructed AACC’s Federal Compliance...

An AACC personal counselor said students who suffer from test anxiety should prepare as much as possible for their exams to build confidence. Melissa Boling also recommended that students keep self-care...

Throughout my high school years, I always got Cs and Ds in my classes. My teachers and classmates would constantly tell me that I would never amount to anything. Halfway through my 10th-grade year, I...

Professors in a handful of classes have discarded the traditional system of grades in favor of “ungrading,” in which they don’t assign scores to individual tests and assignments. In those classes,...

Lack of motivation leads more students to drop classes than any other reason, according to an October survey by the college’s Center for the Study of Local issues. In fact, the 223 AACC students who...

The Student Government Association’s vice president of campus activities resigned from the position on Nov. 20. Vanessa Cardozo, a third-year nursing student, said she is dropping all of her classes...

AACC’s Facilities Department closed Siegert Stadium and the track around it on Nov. 14 to replace the floodlights. The field will reopen temporarily on Nov. 22 and 23 for the AACC Turkey Trot and...

AACC’s part-time faculty voted to unionize on Oct. 30, supported by the SEIU Local 500 organization. After Maryland’s Public Employee Relations Board approves the union, the adjuncts will begin...

An AACC survey of 586 Anne Arundel County residents in October showed crime as the top local concern. The survey, conducted by AACC’s Center for the Study of Local Issues, said county residents, including...

Rise Up Coffee Roasters will open a kiosk on the Arnold campus in November. The kiosk, in the CALT atrium on West Campus, will sell coffee, smoothies, pastries and breakfast sandwiches. “We haven’t...

Two AACC student publications won national awards this week. The College Media Association awarded Amaranth, a journal that publishes student works of art and writing, second place for Literary Magazine...

A political science professor is asking students who have dropped a course or received a low grade because they didn’t complete a class for their reasons why. Professor Dan Nataf said research showing...