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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...

Sui o le Kolisi Tu’ufa’atasi a Amerika Samoa i le taimi na molimau ai i luma o le Komiti Soofaatasi a le Fono mo le iloiloina o le latou paketi mo le tausaga tupe fou i le taeao ananafi. [ata AF]

Silia miliona o lo o aitalafu ai le malo i le Kolisi Tu’ufa’atasi

O lo o fa’aauau pea ona fetaia’i le pulega a le Kolisi Tu’ufa’atasi a Amerika Samoa (ASCC) ma lu’itau tau tupe i le taimi nei, e mafua mai i le vaega tupe e silia i le $1 miliona lea o lo o aitalafu ai le malo i le Kolisi Tu’ufa’atasi, e ala i vaega tupe ua mae’a ona fa’atulafono e tatau ona totogi...