Tomi Brunton

Wikimedia Commons photos Student voting habits tend to be shaped by their identities, according to Dan Nataf, the director of the Center for the Study of Local Issues.

An English professor will teach a course this fall focused on interpreting singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s lyrics as literature. Students in the special topics class English 290 will analyze Dylan’s lyrics, his music and his cultural impact, according to professor Rob Hurd. “Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature,” Hurd said. “There have been Bob...

The Hawk’s Nest Grill & Deli started selling baked treats in April, like chocolate cupcakes and caramel popcorn, created by culinary students. Melissa Hawkins, a hospitality, culinary arts and tourism instructional specialist, said the students are baking different kinds of pastries each week. Hawkins said the student bakers are “very hands-on” in the process of...

A panel of professors hosted an open forum in April for more than 100 students and faculty to debate book banning in schools. At Meeting of the Minds, the audience of students and faculty discussed book banning through lenses such as censorship, child development and whether it’s appropriate for kids to learn about sex. “It...

During two years at AACC, a theater student might have opportunities to perform in a comedy, a tragedy, a musical and a classical play. Madeline Austin, a theater professor, said the theater program’s faculty plans mainstage productions every semester to offer as much variety to students as possible. “We’re trying to do a musical every...

A business professor was suspended from his job over the summer after agreeing to comply with a protective order filed against him by one of his 18-year-old former students. Reb Beatty, 43, said he agreed to the Anne Arundel County District Court order requiring him not to contact the teenage student and to stay away...

Thirty-five music students will travel to New York City in November for a four-day residency with a Grammy award-winning composer, culminating in a performance at Carnegie Hall. Select members of AACC’s Concert Choir and Chamber Singers will join student and professional groups from across the country to learn from and perform with conductor Eric Whitacre....

Thirty-five music students will travel to New York City in November for a four day residency with a Grammy award-winning composer, culminating in a performance at Carnegie Hall. Select members of AACC’s Concert Choir and Chamber Singers will join student and professional groups from across the country to learn from and perform with conductor Eric...

When most people hear Shakespeare’s name, they imagine something erudite and archaic, not to be understood by us common folk. They imagine something serious, something profound, and nothing at all like AACC Theater’s raunchy, raucous production of “Twelfth Night.” Delightful slapstick and mistaken-identity shenanigans gave vibrant life to Shakespeare’s 17th century rom-com. The physicality of...

More than half of AACC’s full-time faculty have committed this semester to join the Riverhawk Educators United union. The majority consensus means the full-time professors can move on to officially certifying the union, then begin negotiating with AACC administrators. “Reaching majority membership is a wonderful achievement,” math professor and REU representative Abby Brackins said in...