By Joe Burris, The Baltimore Sun
Like other Anne Arundel Community College students, Dysha Huggins-Hodge spends much of her time immersed in schoolwork. The one difference: Her online coursework can sometimes be interrupted by a warning of a direct-fire attack. Then Huggins-Hodge, an Army staff sergeant stationed in Afghanistan, takes shelter with her fellow soldiers. “And when it’s over,” she says, “I go back to doing schoolwork.” An Athens, Ga., resident stationed with her family at Fort Meade, Huggins-Hodge has gone from being uninterested in college to excelling in one of AACC’s most difficult curriculums, all amid the challenges that come with serving in the military during wartime. Huggins-Hodge, 24, is pursuing a transfer studies degree at AACC. Since the 1970s, the school has been a Service Members Opportunity College, one of a consortium of schools that offer educational opportunities to service members and their families, AACC officials said.
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