Two AACC vice presidents are forming a council to explore ways the college can help students stay in school. AACC President Dawn Lindsay in October appointed Dr. Tanya Millner, vice president for learning and the college’s provost, and Dr. Felicia Patterson, vice president for...

About 100 students and staff last week visited the Entrepreneurial Studies Institute’s first in-person student trade show since the event went all-virtual in spring 2020. Nine student entrepreneurs participated in HawkTrade, where they promoted businesses ranging from personal...

The Student Government Association seated 10 new student senators this week who will serve for the remainder of the academic year. SGA President Ben Nussbaumer said 10 candidates signed up for 10 seats, so the SGA seated them all. “It [wasn’t] as competitive as it would...

Students who served in the military said last week their classmates might misunderstand the veterans who sit next to them on campus. “You know, we're just like everyday people that just so happened to have been [in the] military,” veteran William Hensley, a first-year mechanical...

Students in two sections of English 102 last spring collaborated to publish an edition of William Faulkner’s iconic novel, "As I Lay Dying," with their insights on the characters in the story. Called a critical edition, the students’ version of the novel included their research...

AACC students said community college should be tuition-free, according to a Campus Current survey last week. In an informal poll of 50 students on the Arnold campus, 33 said free college would allow students of all incomes to get an education. The other 17 disagreed, saying college...

An organization that represents AACC’s faculty gave voting rights to a part-time professor for the first time ever this fall. Courtney Buiniskis, who has taught communications at AACC for five years, is the only adjunct instructor who serves as a senator for The Faculty Organization,...

AACC’s mental health advocacy club hosted a suicide prevention awareness walk at Kinder Farm Park in late October. Six members and the faculty co-advisers of the Active Minds at AACC club gathered to speak to one another about mental health awareness while they observed the farm...

AACC students who are taking in-person classes this semester said in October they prefer the face-to-face format over virtual courses. In an informal poll of 50 students on the Arnold campus, 48 said they prefer coming to campus for class rather than staying home and learning virtually....

The cost of housing and the deterioration of the Chesapeake Bay concern students more than any other issue, according to an October survey by an AACC political science professor. The spread of the coronavirus by unvaccinated individuals is the third-top concern among the 97 students...

The Student Government Association kicked off a series of weekly events with a virtual bingo game for students in October. President Ben Nussbaumer, a third-year general education student, said he hopes to give students an opportunity to meet new people and readjust to in-person...

Students attended a virtual workshop called “Saboteur Wrangling” in October to talk about things that hold them back and to explore techniques to decrease self-doubt and increase self-compassion. The event’s leader, Anne Bashore, administrative assistant to the dean of student...

Halloween is on Sunday but the campus will keep celebrating it for another week. Students, faculty and staff celebrated Halloween, virtually and on campus, over the past couple of weeks at AACC-hosted events. And the Student Government Association will continue its seasonal festivities...