With five returning sophomores on Head Coach Karla Maisto’s roster in 2024, the Atlantic Cape Buccaneers Women’s Volleyball team will be relying upon their collective experience and leadership to guide the squad this year.
Atlantic Cape’s Cape May County campus will host Sean Burcher of Project Monarch for the first event of TEDxCapeMay Salon’s 13th season, titled “New Horizons,” on Thursday, September 19, 5:30 p.m.
Atlantic Cape’s Athletics Department will unveil its 10th Buccaneer sports program today when the Women’s Cross Country team takes part in its inaugural race in the Stockton Open at Stockton University in Galloway, NJ at 4:45 p.m.
Former Atlantic Cape Community College Buccaneers Men’s Basketball standout David Coit recently received a full Division I scholarship to the University of Kansas for his senior year.
Atlantic Cape welcomed nearly 200 incoming freshmen students and more than 100 accompanying parents to the College’s three campuses for New Student Orientation sessions held throughout the month of August in preparation for the start of the Fall Semester on September 3.
Atlantic Cape Community College’s Arts & Humanities Department is inviting high school and college history teachers to submit abstracts for 30-minute papers/panel discussions for the upcoming, Teaching Revolutionary New Jersey symposium, on Friday, May 23, 2025.
The Atlantic Cape Foundation and the Cape May County Women's Commission are excited to announce the 2024 Women of Wonder award recipients, who will be recognized at this year’s annual fundraising event on Thursday, November 14, 11:30 a.m. at The Flanders Hotel in Ocean City.
Girls Volleyball student athletes from five local high schools competed in Atlantic Cape’s 2nd Annual High School Girls Volleyball Summer Showcase tournament on August 14 in the Jonathan Pitney Hall Gymnasium on the Mays Landing campus.
Jocelyn Caceres, a member of Atlantic Cape Community College’s Academy of Culinary Arts Class of 2023, has been selected as the State of New Jersey’s 2024 New Century Workforce Pathway Scholar recipient.
Atlantic Cape’s Cape May County campus hosted a newly-funded summer camp aimed at getting students to disengage from their phones, step outside of their homes and participate, with others their age, in a camp that would pique their curiosity while challenging them intellectually.
Family and friends, as well as former colleagues, alumni and current employees of Atlantic Cape gathered in the Student Center on the Mays Landing campus on August 8 to celebrate the life of former College President Dr. Peter L. Mora, Sr., who passed away on June 30 at the age of 81.
Thirteen Atlantic Cape nursing students received their pins during the inaugural Practical Nursing Completion Ceremony on August 7 in the Walter E. Edge Theater on the Mays Landing campus before numerous family and friends.
Atlantic Cape Community College is excited to announce that it was awarded a $551,818 grant for its proposed Preparing Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (sUAS) Data Technicians project by the National Science Foundation.
A 10-member leadership group of Atlantic Cape Community College staff and faculty recently completed a nearly-three-year partnership project with 25 other institutions of higher education throughout the country to create a Student Success Hub with the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).
It’s that time of year again. Registration, advertising and sponsorship opportunities are now available for the 2024 Atlantic Cape Community College Foundation’s Annual Scramble ‘FORE’ Scholarships Golf Tournament scheduled for Friday, October 4 at Cape May National Golf Club.
Registering for Fall Semester classes at Atlantic Cape Community College can understandably take a backseat during lazy, hazy days of summer trips to the beach, family barbecues and well-earned vacations. Not to worry, though. There is still time to register for fall classes at Atlantic Cape.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.