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

Coach Conway Johnson will lead AACC Athletics new esports team.

Esports kicks off 1st video game season

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

AACC’s new athletic esports team will kick off its first season on Feb. 7 with a tournament featuring the video game Rocket League. Coach Conway Johnson said the players will play the video games...

blue police phone

Police chief gives safety tips

Zack Buster, Associate Editor January 24, 2022

Because more students are going back to in-person classes this spring semester, the crime level on campus could increase slightly, AACC’s police chief said earlier this month. However, Sean Kapfhammer...

A man sitting, playing a bongo

New director is pro dancer

Dominic Salacki, Contributor January 24, 2022

A professional dancer with more than two decades of experience became AACC’s new coordinator of dance last semester. Robert Kleinendorst, an alum of the prestigious Paul Taylor Dance Company in New...

Collection of previous editions.

Newspaper prints for 1st time since COVID

D'Angelo Williams, Co-Editor January 24, 2022

The staff of AACC’s student newspaper revived the print edition of the award- winning paper on Jan. 24. Campus Current stopped publishing the monthly print edition in March 2020 when the college closed...

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...

Dan Elson - Sports Editor

Editor joins in January 2022

D'Angelo Williams, Co-Editor January 24, 2022

A first-year communications student will become the editor of AACC's award-winning campus newspaper on Jan. 24. Dan Elson, who lives in Arnold, said his first goal as editor is to revive the print edition...

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...

Adjunct professor Courtney Buiniskis speaks to voters while campaigning for office.

2 adjunct professors run for state delegate

Maggie Brown, Co-Editor January 24, 2022

Two AACC adjunct professors are running for state delegate from Anne Arundel County. Democrat Courtney Buiniskis, who has taught communications part-time at AACC for five years, has filed to run for...

Zane Saab, in dark purple, front right, earns a spot on NJCAAs Division III Second-Team All-American. Saab is a goalie for the Riverhawks mens soccer team.

Riverhawk makes NJCAA All-American

Lilly Roser, Reporter December 10, 2021

The National Junior College Athletic Association last week named a first-year AACC soccer player to its Division III Second Team All-American. Transfer studies student Zane Saab, a goalie, is the first...

A move by the state Legislature this week opens the door for AACC employees and faculty to form unions and participate in collective bargaining.

Community college employees, faculty may unionize

Dan Elson, Reporter December 9, 2021

The Maryland Legislature on Monday voted to override Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a bill that grants community college employees the right to form unions. The law will allow AACC employees and faculty...

The college is aiming to have 50% of course sections on campus in the spring semester. Shown, students in a communications course wear masks to every class this semester.

College aims to offer 50% of classes on campus in spring

Sydney Klabnik, Reporter December 2, 2021

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

AACC alum Conway Johnson, who created the student ESports Club in 2014, is the new head coach of an athletic esports team set to start competing in the spring. Shown, Johnson checks out a new esports lab in CALT where the team will practice and compete.

New lab for esports athletic team opens in CALT

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief November 30, 2021

AACC Athletics has opened a lab in the CALT building on West Campus where players on a new esports team can practice and compete in tournaments once the squad is formed. Athletics hired AACC alumnus...

Load More Stories