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HANCOCK COUNTY—Ten years ago, Janice Hansen began working for the University of Southern Mississippi as a fiscal systems analyst with the Mississippi Enterprise for Technology at the John C. Stennis Space Center.

At that time, Hansen's colleagues invited her to begin taking classes in accounting at Southern Miss. She agreed and enrolled in two or three classes each semester but quickly realized her school load, coupled with working full time and raising two teenage children, was not feasible. Instead of leaving her studies behind, this nontraditional student remained committed to earning a degree and completed one class each semester...

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