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Former AACC student Keshea Tyrell filed a racial and disability discrimination lawsuit against the college at Maryland’s District Court.

Past AACC student files discrimination lawsuit

Roxanne Ready, Editor-in-Chief May 1, 2018

A former student of AACC’s Physician Assistant Certificate program sued the college on March 3 for racial and disability discrimination. Keshea Tyrell claims in the lawsuit that AACC professors treated...

Students feel safe but remain cautious

Daniel Salomon, Digital Editor May 1, 2018

AACC students said they don’t worry that they will be sexually harassed on campus. In an informal poll of 20 students, 12 said they do not feel vulnerable to sexual harassment anywhere on the AACC...

The area around AACC’s Martin Luther King Jr. memorial will receive a redesign this summer.

King memorial will get redesign over summer

Alexandra Radovic, Associate Editor May 1, 2018

The West Campus memorial where Maryland’s only statue of Martin Luther King Jr. stands will get a redesign over the summer. AACC has chosen a design by first-year landscape architecture student Kathryn...

Third-year visual design student Jesseca Greene debates first-year business student Jacob Smith about their Student Government Association presidential platforms. Vote on The Nest April 30 to May 4.

Candidates for student president run for office

Ashley Sokolowski, Reporter May 1, 2018

A third-year visual design student and a first-year business management student are running for Student Government Association president. AACC students will elect Jesseca Greene or Jacob Smith during...

Human services students from AACC volunteered to help the college host the Mid-Atlantic Consortium for Human Services' 2018 conference.

Regional human services conference comes to AACC

Roxanne Ready, Editor-in-Chief April 16, 2018

AACC students and faculty hosted an annual three-day human services conference over the weekend. Friday through Sunday, students attended the Mid-Atlantic Consortium for Human Services. Attendees engaged...

A section of Ring Road—highlighted here in red—was closed for about five hours today.

Broken water main briefly closes road, Schwartz building

Roxanne Ready and Daniel Salomon April 3, 2018

A section of Ring Road was closed for about five hours today while workers repaired a broken water main. The section of road between College Drive and Main Access was off-limits to students from about...

Student organization representatives nominated candidates for Student Government Association president at a mandatory monthly meeting Monday.

2 candidates run for student body president

Roxanne Ready, Editor-in-Chief April 2, 2018
Student representatives nominated four candidates on Monday for president of the Student Government Association in the 2018-2019 academic year, but only two plan to run.
Dr. Richard Otten, a gender and sexuality studies  professor, is an advocate for allowing faculty unions.

Legislators fail to vote on 2 faculty union bills

Roxanne Ready, Editor-in-Chief April 1, 2018

For the fifth consecutive year, state lawmakers chose on March 20 not to vote on a pair of bills that would allow community college faculty members to form and join unions. Unions allow workers to join...

Professors can choose whether to use extra days built into the semester to make up for the two days canceled so far this spring because of snow.

Snow days might mean extra school for some

Alexandra Radovic, Associate Editor April 1, 2018

AACC professors may choose to extend their classes for two extra school days in May to make up for time lost to snow. The college has built-in make-up days on May 7 and 8 between the end of the usual...

The Glen Burnie campus recently added a Learning Success Center where students can use college computers and receive tutoring in five subjects.

GBTC upgrades tutoring center

Mary Kane, Graphic Desinger April 1, 2018

AACC’s Glen Burnie Town Center campus added math, reading and science tutors and a Technology Learning Center in March. The new Learning Success Center, in Room 314 on the remote campus, is a place...

AACC plans to offer an applied bachelor’s degree in interior design but must wait for approval from the Maryland Higher Education Commission.

College to delay 1 year on applied bachelor’s

Alexandra Radovic, Associate Editor April 1, 2018

The Maryland Higher Education Commission has put AACC’s proposal to offer its first four-year applied bachelor’s degree on hold for a year. AACC Vice President for Learning Michael Gavin said AACC...

Professor Robert Beatty helps AACC students and community members like Suanne Roueche file their taxes for free.

Faculty assists with tax filings

Alexandra Radovic, Associate Editor April 1, 2018

Volunteers on campus can prepare and file taxes for students and community members on campus in just one hour. Anyone with an income of less than $54,000 per tax year can go to the Careers Center, Room...

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