AACC’s Board of Trustees on Tuesday voted to raise tuition by $2 per credit hour. The increase is part of an operating budget of $117 million, which the Board of Trustees—a panel of seven community...

President Donald Trump said Thursday he thinks community colleges should call themselves “vocational schools” instead, apparently believing the two unrelated terms mean the same thing. “I think...

A screen-printing professor and AACC’s new chief diversity officer will offer a series of occasional lectures to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, starting in February. “This past year...

Janice Oakley, 37, recalls the day she rolled out of bed three years ago to get ready to step into a college classroom for the first time in 17 years. She says she was nervous and lacked confidence, and...

At midnight on Jan. 20, the U.S. government shut down when lawmakers couldn’t reach an agreement to fund it. Two days later, on Jan. 22, the Senate passed a temporary spending bill that reopened the...

AACC will introduce a new program called “fields of interest” in the fall, and we like the idea. Here’s what it means: When you first came to AACC, odds are you didn’t bring a road map. Maybe...

AACC opened late on the first day of the spring semester because of snow. Vice President of Learning Resources Management Melissa Beardmore decided to close the college until 1 p.m. on Jan. 17 because...

Thanks to an abundance of donations over the holidays, AACC’s food pantry is overflowing. The donors responsible for the success of the food pantry include participants in last year’s Turkey Trot,...

Students can earn an associate degree in six majors without ever setting foot on the Arnold campus, and AACC administrators hope to grow that number. Although AACC has two satellite campuses and four...

Students enrolled in spring classes especially late this spring due, in part, to the cold weather. AACC’s Vice President for Learning Mike Gavin said he is “convinced” the January cold snap caused...