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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Earlier this month, the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) provided a venue for the INSPIRE Research Symposium presented by the American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition. INSPIRE (Indigenous Samoan Partnership to Initiate Research Excellence) is a five-year program...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Community College has recommended to the Fono to consider legislation that would regulate private institutions of higher learning opening up in American Samoa, as well as online college education programs.
The verbal recommendation was made by ASCC...
Family members join ASCC student Aofaigaimanu Ta’afua at her induction into the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society last week at the College. The PTK induction ceremony welcomed 16 new members into the prestigious honor society. Read story posted earlier this week. [photo: J. Kneubuhl]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Alpha Epsilon Mu Chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) International Honor Society at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) holds an induction ceremony during each Spring and Fall semester to welcome some of the “best and the brightest” academic achievers into...
Pago Pago, AMRICAN SAMOA — For their first public event of the Fall 2019 semester, the Teacher Education Department (TED) at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) hosted an Educators Night at the end of August, which was open to all teachers from Tutuila’s public and private schools.
At the...
O se va’aiga i le vaega laiti o i latou na fa’atinoa le Laumei ma le Malie. O i latou nei sa a’oa’oina fa’apitoa e le Pacific Islands Production ma sa faia le latou fa’atinoga lea o le Laumei ma le Malie i le ASCC MPC i le aso To’ona’i na te’a nei. [ata: foa’i]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tuesday’s launching of a new digital platform 3D Hologram at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) has been labeled a “historic” moment in the territory, with ASCC president, Dr. Rosevonne Makaiwi Pato saying it’s “history in the making as we move forward in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA and Honolulu, HAWAI’I — American Samoa Community College on Tuesday switched on a ground-breaking new digital platform that will stream 3D holograms of UH academics to deliver classes and engage with ASCC students in real-time.
Running on Hawaiki transpacific submarine...
As ASCC gets its Fall 2019 school year underway, seven new faculty members were welcomed at an assembly earlier this week. They are (l-r): Alvin Mamea (Physical Education), Patrick Solia (English CAPP), Nyrese Pato (English CAPP), Dr. Carol Pese-Bird (Language & Literature), Pria Prasad (...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Trade Technical Department (TTD) at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) has been awarded a grant from the American Apprenticeship Initiative (AAI) which in turn is under the federal Technical Assistance Program (TAP).
The TTD offers both regular daytime...

![ASCC Health & Human Services Department chairman Derek Helsham (left) congratulates ASCC alumnus and current Portland State University student Alice Tausaga following her presentation of her current research at the INSPIRE Symposium earlier this month. [courtesy photo] Derek Helsham (left) congratulates ASCC alumnus Alice Tausaga](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ascc_alumnus.jpg?itok=mJiKe1Mz)
![ASCC president, Dr. Rosevonne M. Pato [SN file photo] ASCC president, Dr. Rosevonne M. Pato](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/_dr._rosevonne_pato_0.jpg?itok=jG-q3URP)

![ASCC Phi Theta Kappa honor society member Precious Ameperosa and her mother join the celebration for new members at the PTK Induction Ceremony last week at the College. [photo: J. Kneubuhl] Precious Ameperosa and her mother](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ameperosa.jpg?itok=G-q2dObF)
![Some of American Samoa’s in-service teachers gather around Dr. Larry Purcell (back row, in white shirt), a core faculty member of the ASCC Teacher Education Department, during the department’s Educators Night held last week. [photo: J. Kneubuhl] Some of American Samoa’s in-service teachers gather around Dr. Larry Purcell (back row, in white shirt)](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/teachers_1.jpg?itok=Oi7K3nzX)

![Dr. Rosevonne Makaiwi Pato, president of the American Samoa Community College, during her remarks Tuesday at the Hologram launching ceremony in the ASCC Multi Purpose Center Building. [photo: FS] Dr. Rosevonne Makaiwi Pato](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ascc_3190.jpg?itok=49I8keuu)
![The livestream 3D hologram of University of Hawaii president Dr David Lassner, speaking yesterday to a small group of VIPs and others, during the official launch of the HoloCampus at the Hologram classroom on the second floor of the ASCC Multi Purpose Building. The live hologram was streamed from the UH campus in Honolulu. At the same time, a separate video broadcast from inside the classroom was shown on the large screen for the audience inside the auditorium at the ASCC-MPB. [photo: FS] The livestream 3D hologram of University of Hawaii president Dr David Lassner](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/holocampus.jpg?itok=_bqDC8bo)

![Auto mechanics is one of 10 trade-related courses that will be offered in the fall semester of the Apprenticeship/Workforce Development Progam offered by the Trade & Technical Department at ASCC. [Photo: J. Kneubuhl] Young man in ASCC-TTD auto mechanic garage](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ascc_ttd_apprentice_program.jpg?itok=VmpssVoI)