OHIO Online criminal justice student Christina Cox took a non-traditional route to college, starting her associate degree at Sinclair Community College in 2015 after having been a stay-at-home mom for 15 years.
After finding herself in a position where she needed to seek public assistance for food and housing to provide for her three children, Cox decided she needed to find a degree she could complete quickly to gain skills and credentials to enter the workforce.
Cox earned her Associate of Applied Science degree through the Paralegal Program at Sinclair in 2017, leaving with her degree and a job serving as a paralegal for the Greater Dayton Volunteer Lawyers Project.
While working on her associate degree in legal studies, Cox began considering law school.
“I realized I loved law,” she said. Knowing she wanted to continue her education and earn her bachelor’s degree, she took advantage of Sinclair’s articulation agreement with Ohio University which enabled her to transfer credit taken from her associate degree to OHIO as she began work on her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice through OHIO Online.
As a paralegal for the law department in the Civil Division at the city of Dayton she works on legal cases, conducts discovery, and processes claims for lawsuits against the city, in addition to managing the budget for the law department. On top of this work, Cox also has a full course load of 19 credit hours planned for her final semester at OHIO this spring.
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