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Campus Current

The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

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Student services get more on-campus hours

Sam Gauntt, Associate Editor August 29, 2022

In-person student services will be available from Monday to Thursday on the Arnold campus this fall, up from three days a week last semester. Student services include academic advising, tutoring, the...

Outside the records and registration office

Students select in-person classes

Sam Gauntt, Associate Editor August 29, 2022

AACC fall enrollment is up at least 2.3% from last year, with more students returning to in-person classes. According to Tanya Millner, provost and vice president for learning, the number of students...

Active Minds Club members

Many clubs to start semester with no funding

Jenna Lagoey, Senior Reporter August 29, 2022

Student clubs will begin the school year without funding for events and trips, unlike in prior years when the Student Government Association approved their budgets in the spring. Office of Student Engagement...

A mask being thrown away.

Masks, Covid-19 vax optional for students

Holden Smith, Reporter August 29, 2022

Wearing protective face masks and getting a Covid-19 vaccine will be optional in the fall semester, according to school officials Both masks and vaccines were required for at least part of last semester,...

AACCs rep to the Gun Violence Intervention Task Force poses next to Swoop, the college mascot.

College sends rep to AA County gun violence task force

Zack Buster, Editor-in-Chief August 29, 2022

AACC is helping Anne Arundel County’s Gun Violence Intervention Task Force raise awareness about the issue. The college’s representative on the task force, whose mission is to reduce gun-related injuries...

Nick Barton playing lacrosse

Athlete dies in boat accident

Dan Elson, Sports Editor August 29, 2022

A 21-year-old lacrosse athlete died in early June in a boating accident. Third-year student Nick Barton, who played for the Riverhawks since 2020, died after he was thrown into the West River when the...

Zack Buster

New editor takes top job this fall semester

Holden Smith, Reporter August 29, 2022

A second-year communications student became the editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper in August. Zack Buster, who served as associate editor last year, said he wants to improve the online edition of...

Hawkflex class system camera

New class system HawkFlex

Sam Gauntt, Associate Editor August 29, 2022

AACC will continue to test a new class type this fall that allows students to choose each day if they want to attend class in person or virtually. The new class type is called HawkFlex, and the college...

Lester Brooks teaching.

Long-term professors retire

Dan Elson, Sports Editor August 29, 2022

After 38 years of teaching, one of AACC’s first black professors retired on July 1. President Dawn Lindsay said history professor Lester Brooks was a leader in diversity. “He certainly helped...

Tina Smith

College gets interim associate VP

Dan Elson, Sports Editor August 29, 2022

AACC named an interim associate vice president for learning and academic affairs on July 1. Tina Smith, the former academic chair of the psychology department, will temporarily replace Alycia Marshall,...

graph of budget

AACC budget up from last year

Zack Buster, Editor-in-Chief August 29, 2022

The Anne Arundel County Council in June approved a $124.6 million operating budget for AACC for the 2023 school year, $4.4 million more than last year. The college contributed 28% to this year’s budget...

Campus Police identify and charge a former AACC student with shooting video of men using urinals in the Library and Student Union bathrooms.

Police charge former student with taking bathroom photos

Zack Buster, Associate Editor May 20, 2022

Police said Thursday they have charged a former student with videotaping or photographing men using college restrooms. The suspect is charged with three misdemeanors and police are taking steps to ban...

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