Atlantic Cape Community College’s Chief of Staff and Chief Advancement Officer Jean McAlister was inducted into the prestigious Atlantic County Women’s Hall of Fame for her enduring volunteerism during a formal dinner ceremony at the Linwood Country Club on June 25.
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The Inlet Community Development Corporation and Atlantic Cape Community College hosted its Summer Kickoff on June 15 with a ribbon cutting ceremony that officially unveiled the Fisherman’s Park Community Garden in Atlantic City.
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Atlantic Cape Community College’s Center for Transition Success will host three, three-day no cost learning workshops at the college’s Mays Landing and Cape May campuses for high school graduates, up to age 24, with intellectual and developmental disabilities this summer.
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Atlantic Cape Community College Professor of Social Science Donna Marie McElroy was recognized with the 2024 Distinguished Faculty Award from the New Jersey Council of County Colleges (NJCCC) on June 11 during the New Jersey Community College Opportunity Summit in Atlantic City, N.J.
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Hammonton-based Kramer Beverage and its Kramer Cares Organization conducted a month-long clothing drive in April to support Atlantic Cape Community College’s Campus Closet. Christina Dunleavy, operations administrator, personally delivered lightly-worn men’s and women’s business casual attire and footwear to the Mays Landing campus on June 11.
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Cole Perfetti, an Atlantic Cape Community College Class of 2023 Academy of Culinary Arts graduate, is keeping the family’s entrepreneurial spirit alive by opening his own new business, Surf Road Coffee Bar & Beach Bowls, in Historic Smithville.
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Nearly 160 local high school students, inspired by this year’s theme of “Don’t Fear Your Future,” attended the Annual Atlantic County Coalition for a Safe Community’s Teen Summit on June 6 at Atlantic Cape Community College’s Mays Landing campus.
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Atlantic Cape’s 4th Annual Cyber Day brought nearly 70 students from three area high schools to the college’s Mays Landing campus on May 29 for a day filled with hands-on technology and cybersecurity activities, practical demonstrations, and interaction with industry professionals and experienced facilitators.
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Atlantic Cape Community College is offering additional summer classes at its three campuses starting July 1. This is the perfect opportunity during summer break to earn credits in as little as six weeks while continuing to work towards earning an associate’s degree or transferring credits to your four-year college/university.
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Atlantic City High School sophomore Glenn Lowe says his love of airplanes started innocently enough by playing Microsoft’s Flight Simulator program. From there he became immersed in watching Pilot’s Day Blog videos on YouTube, which led him to his own personal discovery of wanting to one day become an airplane captain.
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The bright future of Atlantic Cape Community College’s Buccaneers Athletics program was on display as new incoming freshmen student athletes were introduced to the college during Athletics Signing Day, May 17 on the Mays Landing campus in the Student Center.
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As hundreds of soon-to-be graduates queued in line, patiently awaiting the start of Atlantic Cape Community College’s 57th Annual Commencement Ceremony on May 16 at the Mays Landing campus, a wide range of emotions overcame many.
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On May 15, Atlantic Cape Community College’s Nursing Program held its Annual Nurses Pinning Ceremony in the Quad on the Mays Landing campus to continue this storied tradition and celebrate the program’s 79 graduates for completing their arduous educational journey.
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For the 44 culinary and baking & pastry graduates of Atlantic Cape’s Academy of Culinary Arts (ACA), the journey started two years ago with the basic practicing of knife skills, making dead dough and learning the many time-honored traditions of the profession. Those long days and nights of work and study culminated on May 15 with the 42nd Annual ACA Awards Ceremony.
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Atlantic Cape honored its Buccaneers student athletes for their hard work, determination and perseverance in the classroom as well as on their respective fields and courts of play this year at the 3rd Annual Athletics Banquet in Jonathan Pitney Hall Gymnasium on May 14 on the Mays Landing campus.
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With its largest graduating class to date, the Shore Medical Center School of Radiologic Technology recognized 18 students, 13 of which also received their Associate in Applied Science degree from Atlantic Cape, at its 31st Annual Graduation Ceremony on May 14 in the Walter E. Edge Theater on Atlantic Cape’s Mays Landing campus.
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The 57th Annual Atlantic Cape Foundation Scholarship Recognition Ceremony acknowledged the college’s sponsors and donors, and recognized the academic achievements of Atlantic Cape’s students by awarding 351 individual scholarships worth $366,504 to 211 students on May 13 in the Jonathan Pitney Hall Gymnasium on the Mays Landing campus.
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It was a vision that the late Cape May County Park & Zoo Assistant Director and Veterinarian Dr. Alex Ernst had many years ago. On May 10, before a lobby full of attendees, the Zoo held a ribbon cutting ceremony to unveil, in his memory, the Dr. Alex Ernst Zoo Education Center at Atlantic Cape Community College’s Cape May County campus.
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Atlantic Cape’s 17th Annual Communication Awards ceremony was a groovy affair as this year’s best student communications prowess was recognized in the Walter E. Edge Theater on the Mays Landing campus on April 26.
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The nascent idea of the community college first saw the light of day in 1947 as part of then-U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s commission report on the state of higher education in America. A six-volume report suggested the establishment of a network of public community colleges across the country.
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Atlantic Cape’s Student Government Association (SGA) recognized the contributions of its student clubs and its advisors, along with acknowledging and honoring the college’s finest and most dedicated students, staff and faculty members at the SGA’s Annual Club Recognition Program Ceremony on May 2.
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Atlantic Cape’s Center for Student Success (CSS) recognized 20 graduating students for their outstanding academic achievement, as well as, faculty and staff members for their unsung dedication this year at the Annual Graduate Awards Ceremony on May 3 in Walter E. Edge Theater.
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Atlantic Cape’s Men of Atlantic Cape (MAC) recognized the academic accomplishments of six of its members during the club’s Annual Jacket Presentation Ceremony on the Mays Landing campus in Walter E. Edge Theater on May 1.
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Members of the Atlantic Cape Class of 2024 got a jump start on graduation preparations as they gathered for a day of camaraderie, celebration and entertainment at Grad Fair 2024 on the Mays Landing campus on April 25.
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Atlantic Cape’s Chapter of the Psi Beta Honor Society held its 2nd Annual Induction Ceremony in Walter E. Edge Theater on the Mays Landing campus before numerous friends, family, and college faculty, staff and classmates on April 24.
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Atlantic Cape’s Charles D. Worthington Atlantic City campus was recognized with the prestigious Community Service Award during the NAACP Atlantic City Chapter’s 50th Annual Freedom Fund Gala Dinner at Hard Rock Hotel Casino in Atlantic City on April 27.
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Atlantic Cape students, Enin Taggart and Priya Momi, were recognized for their scholarly excellence and named as members of the New Jersey All-State Academic Team at the 2024 New Jersey Community College Scholars Celebration on April 25 at the State Museum in Trenton.
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Atlantic Cape Community College and the Student Government Association celebrated Earth Day with festivities at all three campuses that helped raise awareness to the issues that confront our fragile planet each and every day.
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Atlantic Cape welcomed more than 135 local students from six area high schools to learn all about the various fields of study available to them at the college that can lead to exciting professional careers during College Awareness Day on the Mays Landing campus on April 17.
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Atlantic Cape Community College’s Cape May County campus hosted more than 60 students from the Woodbine Elementary School for Junior Achievement of New Jersey’s Career Day on April 16.
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Atlantic Cape Community College will celebrate and salute our student’s hard work, dedication and well-earned academic successes at the 57th Annual Commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 16, 10:30 a.m. on the Mays Landing campus Quad.
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The Atlantic Cape Foundation recognized six members of the college’s alumni during the Annual President’s Distinguished Alumni and Young Alumni Awards Dinner on Wednesday, April 10 at Carême’s, student-run gourmet restaurant on the Mays Landing campus.
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For Atlantic City native Gina Harvell it began as a dream, one that seemed impossible and unimaginable. Homelessness and drug addiction had led her to existing day-in and day-out in the formerly-dilapidated Brown’s Park. Across from Atlantic Cape’s Atlantic City campus, it was here where Harvell would spend innumerable hours wondering, dreaming and hoping for brighter days.
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The Atlantic Cape Community College Foundation, in collaboration with the Cape May County Women’s Commission, is accepting nominations for the 2024 Women of Wonder (WOW) Award, which will be announced at its Annual Awards Luncheon on November 14 at The Flanders Hotel in Ocean City.
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Atlantic Cape Community College’s English Honor Society, Sigma Kappa Delta, inducted 21 new students into its ranks in the presence of faculty, staff and friends during a lunch ceremony on March 26 on the Mays Landing campus.
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The Inlet Development Community Corporation (CDC) received a $950,000 donation from Ocean Casino Resort during a check presentation on the 11th floor of Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City with members of the leadership teams from Ocean and the Inlet CDC present.
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Guarantee your seat for Atlantic Cape Community College’s upcoming Fall semester at the Cape May campus. Registration opens Monday, April 8 for students with 30+ credits; Tuesday, April 9 for students with 15+ credits; Wednesday, April 10 for students with less than 15 credits and Thursday, April 11 for all other students.
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Guarantee your seat for Atlantic Cape Community College’s upcoming Fall semester at its Mays Landing and Atlantic City campuses. Registration opens Monday, April 8 for students with 30+ credits; Tuesday, April 9 for students with 15+ credits; Wednesday, April 10 for students with less than 15 credits and Thursday, April 11 for all other students.
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Four Atlantic City Community Development Corporations (CDC) each received $1,000,000 in Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Program (NRTC) funds from the State of New Jersey’s Department of Community Affairs, it was announced on March 28.
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Atlantic Cape Community College’s Academy of Culinary Arts (ACA) raised nearly $2,500 during its annual Italy dinner fundraiser on March 28 at Carême’s on the Mays Landing campus to support its students planning to attend the ACA’s upcoming Marco Polo Study Abroad Program in Italy.
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Two members of the Atlantic Cape Community College staff were honored by the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce on March 28 at the organization’s Annual Business Excellence Awards ceremony held at The Carriage House in Galloway.
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Atlantic Cape Community College President Dr. Barbara Gaba was recognized on March 27 as the Winslow Township Middle School’s Women’s History Month “Woman of Distinction” during a ceremony at its Atco, NJ campus.
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More than 120 students from several local colleges, universities and high schools took part in the 2nd Annual First-Generation Student Conference, “Maximizing Your College Experience,” at Atlantic Cape’s Mays Landing campus on March 21.
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Celebrating a Springtime in Paris, more than 840 guests attended the 41st Annual Atlantic Cape Community College Restaurant Gala and helped raise a record $306,210 towards student scholarships while also honoring three deserving members of the community on March 21 at the Harrah’s Waterfront Conference Center in Atlantic City.
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The Atlantic Cape Community College Foundation will honor six alumni recipients at the 2024 President’s Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner on Wednesday, April 10, 5:30 p.m. at Careme’s Restaurant on the Mays Landing campus.
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Atlantic Cape Community College’s new, 1,700-square-foot Wind Training Center at the Charles D. Worthington Atlantic City campus will officially begin Global Wind Organization (GWO) Basic Safety (Onshore) Training classes in April.
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This summer, give your children the gift of a unique, hands-on experience where they can learn new skills, make new friends and explore new horizons. Registration is now open for Kids College and Summer Academy at Atlantic Cape Community College’s Mays Landing and Cape May campuses.
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Atlantic Cape Restaurant Gala will recognize Travis Lunn, president and chief operating officer, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, as its community honoree and Chef Demetrios Haronis, 1990 Academy of Culinary Arts (ACA) alumnus and current executive chef at Tropicana Atlantic City, as its ACA honoree.
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Atlantic Cape’s Campus Closet received a generous offering of donated gently-worn men’s and women’s professional business attire from representatives of the South Jersey Democratic Women’s Forum (SJDWF) Atlantic-Cape Chapter on February 29.
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41st Annual Atlantic Cape Restaurant Gala announced its complete list of food and beverage participants who will be on-hand for this year’s Paris-themed event on Thursday, March 21, 6-9:30 p.m. at the Harrah’s Waterfront Conference Center in Atlantic City.
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Professor Dr. Theodore Darden never wanted to become a policeman. Accounting was his chosen path at Blackhawk Technical College in Janesville, Wisconsin until one day everything changed. What followed was an illustrious 17-year career in law enforcement before embarking upon a career in higher education.
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Summertime at Atlantic Cape Community College is the perfect opportunity to earn credits in as little as six weeks as you continue working towards earning your associate’s degree or simply want to transfer credits to your four-year college/university while enjoying warm, lazy days at the beach or staying indoors to keep cool.
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Three exciting raffle ticket packages are now available for purchase to help support Atlantic Cape Community College’s 41st Annual Restaurant Gala to be held on Thursday, March 21, 6-9:30 p.m. at the Harrah’s Waterfront Conference Center in Atlantic City.
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Atlantic Cape officially broke ground on its new $1.48 million baseball field of dreams on its Mays Landing campus on February 15 that will permanently bring the Buccaneers’ baseball program home in time for the 2025 season after spending the past decade playing its home games at Surf Stadium in Atlantic City.
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The Southern New Jersey Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club presented a history of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers as part of Atlantic Cape's recognition of Black History Month at the Atlantic City and Cape May campuses on February 7 and 14, respectively.
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Atlantic Cape President Dr. Barbara Gaba and Rutgers University-Camden Chancellor Dr. Antonio D. Tillis officially signed a memorandum of understanding on February 14 creating a Premier Partnership between the two institutions of higher education.
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The Atlantic Cape Buccaneers Men’s Volleyball team enters the 2024 season with an exciting roster dominated by enthusiastic, high-energy freshmen who saw success as seniors at the local Cape Atlantic League (CAL) high school level last year and a duo of sophomores prepared to lead by example.
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To the Twin Poets, brothers Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills, their words are a lens into the strong history of a tight familial bond, of overcoming the trials and tribulations of youth, of faith, failure and redemption, and, most importantly, of celebrating life and love.
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Atlantic Cape Community College hosted the southern venue portion of the 2024 New Jersey State Indoor Archery Championships in Jonathan Pitney Gymnasium on the Mays Landing campus February 3-4 as the Buccaneers’ Archery team opened the Spring semester half of its 2023-24 season.
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Atlantic Cape begins its month-long celebration of Black History Month on February 1 with the annual raising ceremony of the Pan African flag on the Mays Landing and Atlantic City campuses, weekly educational forums and cultural awareness events, and the return of the Twin Poets on February 8.
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Spencer’s and Spirit Halloween donated more than 400 new and gently-worn professional clothing items to Atlantic Cape Community College’s Campus Closet at the Mays Landing campus on Thursday, January 25.
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Careme’s, Atlantic Cape Community College’s Academy of Culinary Arts student-run gourmet restaurant located on the Mays Landing campus, will welcome guests back for dinner beginning Wednesday, February 7.
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Tickets, sponsorships and advertising opportunities are now available for Atlantic Cape Community College’s 41st Annual Restaurant Gala to be held on Thursday, March 21, 6-9:30 p.m. at the Harrah’s Waterfront Conference Center in Atlantic City.
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Nine students from Atlantic Cape’s Academy of Culinary Arts (ACA) program participated in the 2nd Annual Wing Wars competition on January 26 at the Mays Landing campus for the privilege of participating in the Annual Wing Fest at Golden Nugget on February 3.
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Rutgers Statewide, Division of Continuing Studies Vice President Richard J. Novak presented Atlantic Cape alumna Gina Harvell with the inaugural Lifelong Learner Award, whose creation was inspired by her story, on Thursday, January 11 at Atlantic Cape’s Mays Landing campus.
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Atlantic Cape Community College staff members, students and alumni participated in the Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service by volunteering their time at Sister Jean’s Pantry & Kitchen and Atlantic City Rescue Mission on Monday, January 15.
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From an early age, Atlantic Cape Community College alumna Soleil Yakita was exposed to time-tested and treasured fairy tales, such as popular children’s authors the Brothers Grimm and J.R.R. Tolkien to Hans Christian Anderson and others, by her mother and father.
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Atlantic Cape Community College announced Victor Moreno, senior manager, Special Projects for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, as its 2024 Employee of the Year during a breakfast ceremony on Monday, January 8 at the Mays Landing campus.
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Atlantic Cape Community College will be holding a One-Stop Enrollment Day on Monday, January 8, 3-6 p.m. at our Mays Landing, Atlantic City and Cape May campuses for new and returning students to register for the upcoming Spring semester.
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