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Campus Current

The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

AACC students can apply for paid internships in January working with state politicians.

Political paid internships offered for students in January

Tomi Brunton, Reporter September 22, 2022

AACC students can sign up for paid internships working with state delegates and senators starting in January when the Maryland General Assembly begins its next session. Students interested in the internship,...

Alford Shinaberry, AACC’s mailroom supervisor, will retire on Oct. 1 after 52 years with the college. His hobbies include skydiving. Shown, in a jump over Laurel Delaware.

AACC mailworker retires after 52 years

Ava Herring, Diversity Editor September 14, 2022

The employee who has worked the longest at AACC retired on Oct. 1 after 52 years in the mailroom.  Alford Shinaberry, who turns 70 in November, started working in the campus mailroom in September 1970...

Internships program coordinator Gwen Johnson says she helped start the Career Mentoring Network to help students get career advice and coaching from faculty mentors in their field.

Students get mentors, career advice this fall

Zack Buster, Editor-in-Chief September 8, 2022

Students will have the chance to work with career advisers in their fields this fall. AACC’s Sarbanes Center for Career and Civic Engagement launched a program to connect students with faculty mentors...

Academic chair of the Entrepreneurial Studies Institute Stephanie Goldenberg (right) and instructional specialist Stephen Berry oversee the Ratcliffe Entrepreneurship Scholarship.

Student entrepreneurs get scholarships, mentors

Zack Buster, Editor-in-Chief September 8, 2022

Student entrepreneurs could win $12,000 scholarships this year as part of a $300,000 donation from the Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation. Stephanie Goldenberg, the Entrepreneurial Studies...

Information desk

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,...

AACC's 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...

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