After serving honorably in the United States Air Force, Professor Huckins attended Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Secondary Education and a Massachusetts Certification in teaching. He continued his studies at Boston College from which he graduated with a Master of Arts in Teaching. Dr. Huckins then assumed his first teaching position in the English Department of St. John’s Preparatory School, in Danvers, Massachusetts. While there he also completed a Master of Education degree in Counseling Psychology at Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.