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The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

Humanities Recital Hall during renovation.

2 of AACC’s theaters undergo renovations

Laniya Harris, Reporter January 24, 2022

AACC is currently renovating two of its theaters. The Kauffman Theater located inside the Pascal Center for Performing Arts is in the process of getting new dressing rooms backstage and updated lighting. Renovations...

The chamber singers performing in all black.

Performers adapt to COVID-19 protocols

Laniya Harris, Reporter January 24, 2022

After a year online during the pandemic, some performing arts students were able to come to campus for classes and rehearsals during the fall semester. In the spring, about 50% of dance, theater and...

Adventure Society Beach Cleanup

Adventure Club holds off-campus activities

Zack Buster, Associate Editor January 24, 2022

Members of one student club camped at Shenandoah National Park and went indoor skydiving in Baltimore last semester. This semester, Adventure Society members are planning a skiing and snowboarding trip...

A photo of AACCs Clauson Center.

AACC builds Clauson Center for all trades

Lilly Roser, Contributor January 24, 2022

Trade students taking classes like welding and plumbing will meet in a new building on campus starting on the first day of the spring semester. The college built the $5 million Clauson Center for Innovation...

picture of snowy campus taken by drone

Winter weather stops classes

Zack Buster, Associate Editor January 24, 2022

Before the semester even began, the college closed three times in January for snow days. Each time, the college closed its gates, revved up its snowplows and canceled in-person classes. “Our one...

Two students sitting at a large desk in a classroom, wearing masks.

AACC to offer 50% of classes face-to-face

Sydney Klabnik, Contributor January 24, 2022

AACC will offer up to 50% of its course sections on campus for the spring semester. Faculty and deans built the spring course schedule to reach that benchmark, according to Melissa Beardmore, AACC’s...

First-year student Jaron Carroll is a leader of the Experience Apostolic Campus Ministries Club.

Students bond, pray together on campus

Dan Elson, Editor-in-Chief January 24, 2022

Fifteen to 20 students gather in the cafeteria, on the Quad or in the library every Wednesday for about two hours to discuss God, spread love and pray together. They are members of a club called Experience...

Campus Currents editor-in-chief finishes his term with a letter of gratitude to the people on campus who helped him throughout the semester.

Editor-in-chief says good-bye with gratitude for Campus Current role

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief December 9, 2021

 While Aug. 30 was only about three and a half months ago, this entire semester seemed a bit longer than any other I’ve spent at AACC, for good reasons. Today, I am completing my run as Campus Current’s...

Students hunker down with the books to prepare for final exams, which begin next week.

Counselors, students offer tips to overcome anxiety over exams

Maggie Brown, Reporter December 6, 2021

Got test anxiety? You are not alone. Second-year English student Mikayla Borneman said she feels like she has “a heart attack the night before [an exam]. ... I freak out, it’s so bad." Almost...

AACCs Entrepreneurial Studies Institute held its annual Big Idea competition virtually this semester and awarded $2,500 to help students start their businesses.

Student entrepreneurs take home cash prizes

D'Angelo Williams, Reporter November 29, 2021

Three student entrepreneurs won a collective $2,500 for their business ideas before Thanksgiving. AACC student Nickie Lambert won the $1,000 first-place prize in the AACC Entrepreneurial Studies Institute’s...

Students say theyre finding reasons to be grateful this Thanksgiving, despite the pandemic.

Students grateful for health, loved ones

Maggie Brown, Reporter November 24, 2021

As another COVID-tinged Thanksgiving approaches, AACC students said they're grateful for their health and their loved ones. “I am really grateful that my parents are healthy,” Matthew Coughlin,...

Business student Audrey Wais (middle) visits HawkTrade last week while Allison Baumbusch of the office of Strategic Communications makes a purchase from a student entrepreneur.

HawkTrade show returns to Arnold campus

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief November 15, 2021

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...

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