The 2024-2025 Free Application for Federal Student Aid will open by Dec. 31 this year, three months later than the usual Oct. 1 opening. The Department of Education is making significant changes to...

Rise Up Coffee Roasters did not open on the Arnold campus in November as scheduled because of a delay in obtaining approval from the Anne Arundel County Health Department. Rise Up will repaint the spot...

The C of the energy drink Celsius has surged on campus and at colleges around the country. Hawk’s Nest Grill & Deli, Subway and vending machines around campus sell Celsius, which contains twice as much...

The Ceramics and Culinary Departments teamed up for a charity fundraiser in November to raise $3,340 for AACC’s HelpLink, which offers emergency financial aid to students. Students, staff and faculty...

AACC’s Entrepreneurial Studies Institute in November awarded $2,500 to a student who sells jump ropes to people with mobility problems. Entrepreneurship student Patti Kuhlman won first place in ESI’s...

AACC this semester began requiring students to reveal during registration where they will be physically located while taking courses. The U.S. Department of Education instructed AACC’s Federal Compliance...

An AACC personal counselor said students who suffer from test anxiety should prepare as much as possible for their exams to build confidence. Melissa Boling also recommended that students keep self-care...

Throughout my high school years, I always got Cs and Ds in my classes. My teachers and classmates would constantly tell me that I would never amount to anything. Halfway through my 10th-grade year, I...

Professors in a handful of classes have discarded the traditional system of grades in favor of “ungrading,” in which they don’t assign scores to individual tests and assignments. In those classes,...

Lack of motivation leads more students to drop classes than any other reason, according to an October survey by the college’s Center for the Study of Local issues. In fact, the 223 AACC students who...

The Student Government Association’s vice president of campus activities resigned from the position on Nov. 20. Vanessa Cardozo, a third-year nursing student, said she is dropping all of her classes...

AACC’s Facilities Department closed Siegert Stadium and the track around it on Nov. 14 to replace the floodlights. The field will reopen temporarily on Nov. 22 and 23 for the AACC Turkey Trot and...