An award-winning poet told AACC students last week to embrace ideas for writing projects that might take them outside of their comfort zone.  “Open yourself up to possibilities,” Sheila Squillante, the director of the creative writing master’s program at Chatham University,...

Art presents a clear path to becoming an activist, an Annapolis-born street artist told AACC students and staff at a virtual lunch on Friday.  Street artist Comacell Brown encouraged faculty members to share their students’ artwork and to keep them informed of government...

The AACC Health and Wellness Center added a third nurse to its remote-working staff in December to help manage the heavier-than-usual workload created by the pandemic.   Kathleen Loukides, a registered nurse who worked in the Health and Wellness Center in 2015...

The Board of Trustees on Tuesday voted unanimously not to raise in-county tuition for the next school year. This is the first year in a decade the college has not raised tuition by $2 to $4 per credit hour. “Given the economic challenges being faced by many of our students...

Talk therapy and companion dogs could help veterans as an alternative to medicine, an expert on service animals told a group of about 60 students last week. Sarah DelCore, veteran and military service manager for a Boyds, Maryland, organization called Warrior Canine Connections,...

The Student Government Association has published step-by-step instructions to help members of student organizations navigate The Nest, a website dedicated to clubs.  According to SGA President and second-year environmental science student Ryan Kim, The Nest guidebook...

Despite a practice season shortened by the pandemic, coaches and players say they expect their teams to perform well during the upcoming spring season.  Baseball, Softball and Men’s Lacrosse will start their spring seasons the first week of March, playing against nearby...

Healthy relationships include four main components, an AACC registered nurse said at a Valentine’s Day-themed panel last week: communication, support, respect and boundaries.  Stephanie Jenkins was part of an AACC Health and Wellness Center-hosted a virtual event on Feb....

AACC chose “The Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity” as its theme for Black History Month in February.   Among the college’s Black History Month events are a Feb. 19 talk by an artist who advocates for social justice and a cooking demonstration on Feb....

Students can nominate themselves as candidates for AACC’s Board of Trustees until Wednesday.   The eight-member Board of Trustees includes one student member who votes and serves a one-year term.   This year’s student trustee, Briana Barone, said the decisions she makes...

 AACC plans to open study spaces on the Arnold and Arundel Mills campuses in March for online credit students who prefer not to work at home.   “We're thinking that it would be very helpful to students who may live in a house with a lot of other people who are also trying...

The Campus Current made a short list of finalists for the Associated Collegiate Press’s prestigious Pacemaker award.  The award, in the community college category, is for issues of the student newspaper from the 2019-2020 school year under Editors-in-Chief Amber Nathan...

AACC’s vice president for learning announced on Tuesday he will leave the college this summer. In an email to faculty, AACC President Dawn Lindsay said other colleges are recruiting Gavin for top positions like provost or president. “His candidacy is at the point where it may...