The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

County Executive Steuart Pittman proposed the 2020 budget on May 1.

County executive proposes 2020 AACC budget

Alexandra Radovic, Editor-in-Chief May 1, 2019

  County Executive Steuart Pittman proposed the fiscal year 2020 budget to the county council on May 1. Part of this budget deals directly with the college, which requested $4 million total. However,...

Former inmate at Patuxent Institution Chris Wilson got his AACC degree while serving time. He wrote a book called The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose, and plans to help Anonymous Content make it into a film.

Ex-prisoner gets AACC degree, set to help produce film with Anonymous Content

Alexandra Radovic, Editor-in-Chief May 1, 2019

  This is the final installment in a three-part series on an AACC program to take community college classes to students in prison. In June 1996, 17-year-old Chris Wilson walked outside of...

Students, like second-year physics student Kenneth Arnold, participated in a student survey on campus.

Living cost among top concerns in AA county

April 30, 2019

The high cost of living is the top concern of Anne Arundel County residents, a survey by AACC’s Center for the Study of Local Issues found in April. Among their other concerns are drug abuse, sexual...

Campus Current Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Radovic says students should take advantage of on-campus resources during the summer.

Students: Use summer to refocus for next fall

Alexandra Radovic, Editor-in-Chief April 30, 2019

AACC students who plan to return to campus next fall should take advantage of on-campus resources during the summer to get into a productive mindset before school starts. Although some students will...

Some students say they want the college to create a Black Student Union.

Some AACC attendees want black clubs, reps

Tyreesha Bolton, Reporter April 30, 2019

Black AACC students said they don’t know if the college has organizations exclusively for them, according to an April 4 poll. In an informal poll of 26 students on the Arnold Campus, six said they...

Former Campus Current Associate Editor Brad Dress, who is now at the University of Maryland, College Park, gives his advice about what to expect at a four-year school.

AACC students: Focus, plan for 4-year schools

Amber Nathan, Advertising Manager April 30, 2019

AACC graduates who will head to four-year schools in the fall should take chances, stay focused and learn their surroundings. That’s the advice of a group of former Campus Current editors who have...

Sisters Ashley (left) and Emily Sokolowski will graduate together this spring.

Some siblings to gain diplomas at same time

Tyreesha Bolton, Reporter April 30, 2019

Third-year entrepreneurship student Emily Sokolowski could have finished her coursework at AACC last December, but decided to spread her classes out so she could graduate with her sister, Ashley, this...

Third-year student Daniel Aha is one of 41 students whom college officials inducted into Chi Alpha Epsilon, for students who started in non-credit classes and now have a 3.0 grade point average or better.

Honor society inducts new student members

Alexandra Radovic, Editor-in-Chief April 30, 2019

Their shoulders draped in blue and white tassels, 41 students formed a long line and walked proudly down the aisle of Cade 219 to receive pins of honor from esteemed faculty of the college. But when...

Four-year-old Sheltie Cody is first-year transfer studies student Catherine Wood’s service dog.

Handlers say not to pet or touch service dogs

Mackenzie Airey, Graphic Designer April 30, 2019

Service dogs are busy working and are not on campus for the public’s enjoyment, their handlers told Campus Current. “Generally, people understand you’re not supposed to touch [service dogs],”...

Gabby Rapine (left), Adventure Society president, and Alexandra Radovic, editor-in-chief of Campus Current, say they support female leadership at AACC.

Student leaders vouch for women with power

Bethany Probst, Reporter April 30, 2019

Jesseca Greene was running late. She was supposed to meet her friends—game art and design students like her—at Baltimore/Washington International Airport for a 6 a.m. flight to San Francisco. That’s...

Summer Brooks, a second-year radiology student (left), and Alexis Weisgerber, a second-year physical therapy student, study to relieve the stress of final exams.

Students study to ease nerves for final exams

Philip Van Slooten, Reporter April 30, 2019

AACC students and faculty said in April that studying, physical activity and relaxing can help ease the stress of final exams. Beth Mays, a registered nurse and manager of the campus Health and Wellness...

Gay-Straight Alliance President Garrett Hutchinson says he contemplated suicide after being bullied for his sexuality, but found his passion for life in God.

Student keeps faith, gay pride

Bethany Probst, Reporter April 30, 2019

Thirteen-year-old Garrett Hutchinson’s fingers traced the braid on his mother’s best leather belt until they felt the buckle. Sitting on his mother’s bed after another rough day at middle school,...

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