As final exam season approaches, Dean for Learning Advancement and the Virtual Campus Colleen Eisenbeiser and Director of Information Security John Williams shared their tips for students taking online exams.  From making sure their environment is suitable for testing to limiting...

AACC students said the pandemic has made them more thankful for health and life this Thanksgiving season.  “I’m definitely more thankful for what I have because it was, like, easily lost,” Emily DeLeon, a first-year undecided student, said.  For some, the pandemic brought...

An adjunct communications professor lost her bid for a seat in the Maryland House of Delegates race this month. Democrat Courtney Buiniskis, who represents AACC’s part-time faculty on the college’s The Faculty Organization, trailed Republican incumbent Seth Howard by 2,430...

Student entrepreneurs won a total of $2,250 in awards to help them make their business ideas a reality on Thursday. First-year entrepreneurial student Hannah Gribbin, who claimed first prize in the Entrepreneurial Studies Institute’s 13th annual Big Idea Copetition, described...

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the student Super Science club hosted an in-person speaker Saturday. Daryl Cooke, a NASA solar system ambassador, spoke to students and faculty at AACC about comets, asteroids and meteors.  The event brought attendees to...

The Maryland Junior College Athletic Conference named a Riverhawk to the All-Maryland JUCO women’s cross-country team in November.  The All-Maryland JUCO team is a squad for the best athletes in a particular sport in the state.  Bailey Healy, a first-year transfer studies...

The Riverhawks men’s basketball team have lost six games in a row and are now 1-7 this season after the 97-59 loss to the Montgomery Community College Raptors on Saturday.  Riverhawks guard Jack Taylor hit four 3-pointers. He pitched in 14 points and three rebounds. Guard Truth...

It was 6 p.m. on a late November Thursday last year and the last blotches of crimson sunlight were dancing on my wall while I took an online exam.  Sitting in my room struggling with logarithms, I realized I didn’t feel particularly connected to the college I attended. I was...

Editors and alumni of AACC’s student literary magazine held a surprise retirement party to celebrate the retirement of a longtime creative writing professor at an Oct. 16 coffeehouse. This year’s staff and past contributors to Amaranth honored professor Susan Cohen for her...

Students who have trouble speaking or reading English can get help from an interpreter or translator through a program that began in February. Faculty, staff and community members also have access to the service when speaking with someone from the college. “The language diversity...

The Riverhawks women’s soccer team finished its regular fall season with four wins and seven losses after changing its status from club to Division III. In the regional and national postseason, the Riverhawks went 2-1. Still, the squad competed against mostly Division I and II...

AACC students said in November they are happy about the election of Maryland’s first black governor. In an informal Campus Current poll of 28 students on the Arnold Campus after the midterm election, approximately 67% said they are pleased with the election of Democrat Wes Moore,...