AACC launched a leadership development program this summer targeting black faculty and staff. The African American Leadership Institute will create a pipeline to leadership positions at AACC for minority professors and employees. To start, the group has 13 members who will serve...

The student newspaper’s newsroom in the Humanities building closed this semester after officials apparently discovered a ventilation issue. Campus Current’s student editors, reporters, photographers and graphic designers are temporarily working down the hall from the newsroom...

A few dozen students visited an Involvement Fair showcasing 13 student clubs and departments Wednesday on the Quad. Abigail Billovits-Hayes, vice president of public relations for the Student Government Association, said she did not expect a big turnout at the fair because most...

Second-year environmental studies student Madison Palmer was the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Division III Runner of the Week for cross country last week. Palmer had led the Riverhawks’ women’s cross country team to a sixth-place ranking in a national poll...

Crime was down nearly 67% in 2020 from 2019, according to the AACC 2021 Annual Security Report, which campus police released in September.  Vandalism was down nearly 78% on the Arnold campus, from nine incidents to two , according to the report. Larceny--or theft-- decreased 75%...

AACC is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with online and in-person events that began on Sept. 15, the anniversary of when five Latin American countries gained independence. The final event, a virtual party on Zoom, will be on Oct. 15. The month-long series of campus festivities...

The Florestano building on West Campus has been empty since the summer, when the campus health programs that once were housed there moved into the new Health and Life Sciences building on the Arnold campus. The Dragun building is partially empty after losing its life science programs...

AACC students and employees can submit proof of their COVID-19 vaccinations by filling out an online form and uploading a picture of their vaccination card. The college is requiring anyone coming to campus to turn in the form by Oct. 1 or to submit proof of weekly negative COVID-19...

Student enrollment at AACC is down by 12% this semester from last fall. That decline in the number of students paying tuition has cost the college an estimated $3.9 million, according to Melissa Beardmore, vice president for learning resources management. The school’s annual...

The Student Government Association appointed a 33-year-old communications student as its vice president of outreach on Friday. Maggie Brown, a first-year student here, served as secretary of the Baltimore County Community College Student Government Association in 2015. She said...

AACC is replacing the turf on the field at Siegert Stadium, moving soccer practices and lacrosse fall ball to a grassy field near the baseball diamond for five weeks. According to Athletic Director Duane Herr, the college is replacing the synthetic turf for the first time since...

The men’s and women’s cross country teams this semester are competing for the first time since fall 2019. The teams did not participate in last fall’s season because of COVID-19. “It's really motivating, considering we actually have us all together now, whereas, because...

A Portland, Oregon, art show will showcase the work of an AACC photography professor who took pictures of the dismantled statues of former Soviet leaders whose images were toppled after the collapse of the Communist government in 1991. Blue Sky Gallery will host the solo exhibition...