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Lolo admin working to identify new $$ sources to help ASCC and LBJ

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It was at last week’s cabinet meeting where Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga revealed that the administration is working to identify possible new funding measures for submission to the Fono to help the American Samoa Community College and the LBJ Medical Center. Lolo told...

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2019 CIP money will fund ASTCA Hawaiki cable to the tune of $2Mil

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Of the nine projects to be funded for fiscal year 2019 with Capital Improvement Project money from the federal government, one of the them is funding for the Hawaiki submarine cable. The American Samoa branching unit is owned and operated by the American Samoa...

ASCC-ACNR faculity member Pauline McFall, current ASCC students Sherlean Amato, Chloe Tuaua, and Darius Shimasaki-Vaofanua, and ASCC faculty member Derek Helsham.

Three ASCC Students attend BUILD EXITO Orientation

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Three American Samoa Community College (ASCC) students returned recently from a week-long orientation in Portland, Oregon for BUILD EXITO, a program designed to support undergraduate students interested in pursuing research careers in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical...

ASCC-ACNR summer internships underway

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Twelve students from the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) are participating in local and off-island summer internships in Agriculture and related fields through ASCC’s Agriculture, Community and Natural Resources (ACNR) Division. “Over the summer, the interns will...

ASCC conducts BlueSky professional development training

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Community College (ASCC) takes pride in collaborating with the Territory’s public and private sectors in their efforts to raise their level of internal effectiveness and public service. Towards this goal, the College offers a variety of professional...

Mitizie Jessop-Taase, Legal Counsel to the President of the Fono, spoke to the ASCC Political Science Club in late April. She is pictured with faculty and students from the Political Science Department following her talk. [courtesy photo]

How a bill becomes a law — American Samoa's Fono legal counsel explains the process

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In late April, the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) Political Science Club welcomed Mitzie Jessop-Taase, the Legal Counsel to the President of the Senate as their guest speaker. PoliSci Club President Faafetai Luamanu conducted the meeting, which started with an...

Lt. Governor Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga conferring with ASCC President Dr. Rosevonne Makaiwi-Pato earlier this semester. Lemanu will give the keynote address at the 68th ASCC Commencement Ceremony tomorow, Friday, May 18, beginning at 10 a.m. in the Auditorium of the College’s new Multi-Purpose Center. [photo: J. Kneubuhl]

Lt. Gov. Lemanu to give keynote speech at 68th ASCC commencement

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Community College (ASCC) will hold its 68th Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 18, beginning at 10 a.m. in the College’s new Multi-Purpose Center (MPC) Auditorium. While the final number will depend on examination results, an initial count of 135...

Organizer Doris Tulifau (right) celebrates after the conclusion of a successful Poetry Slam at ASCC in late April. Joining her are guest speaker Sala Pa’au (left) and Sina Auva’a Hudson of the ASCC Student Services Division. The Poetry Slam, which featured students from ASCC and local high schools, went by the theme “Embrace Your Voice” to empower young people to speak out about domestic and sexual violence. [photo: J. Kneubuhl]

ASCC Poetry Slam

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Local advocacy group the Alliance for Strengthening Families, in collaboration with the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) Student Services Division and Health & Human Services Department, organized a “poetry slam” in late April at the College that went by the...

Members of the ASCC chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society recently hosted 17 visitors from the School of International Training. (SIT). The two groups are seen here enjoying an afternoon of fellowship at Utulei Beach Park. [Photo: J. Kneubuhl]

ASCC-PTK hosts School of International Training

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — One component of the Mission of the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) is to promote awareness of Samoa and the Pacific, while one of the College’s Institutional Learning Outcomes is that students acquire proficiencies as Global Citizens. A recent project by the...

QUEST students and staff pose for a photo after a successful day of reef fish surveys in the water, last week, as part of the Quantitative Underwater Ecological Surveying Techniques (QUEST) field course, a component of the class MSC 280, Marine Science Special Projects. The QUEST course took place from March 12-17, in Nu’uuli uta, with surveys conducted at Avao. [Courtesy photo]

Training future coral reef managers

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — How are American Samoa’s coral reefs doing? With coral (amu) bleaching in the news so often, and American Samoa’s reefs featured in the documentary “Chasing Coral”, many American Samoa Community College (ASCC) students have been wondering what they can do to help. One of...

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