Project Kitty Hawk to Energy Seven A&T Diploma Packages

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Aug. 12, 2025) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, the nation’s largest traditionally Black school or college, has formalized a brand new partnership with Project Kitty Hawk to energy not less than seven diploma applications designed for grownup learners.

Project Kitty Hawk is a nonprofit affiliate of the University of North Carolina System that helps North Carolina’s public universities develop and launch on-line diploma applications particularly designed for adults previous conventional school age. The diploma applications powered by Project Kitty Hawk, known as “Flight Path” applications, give attention to in-demand fields for grownup learners.

“Partnering with Project Kitty Hawk aligns with our deep commitment to expanding access to high-quality education, this time specifically reaching North Carolina’s adult learners,” mentioned Catherine Edmonds, Ed.D., provost and govt vice chancellor for Academic Affairs. “By leveraging this collaboration, we are not only enhancing our capacity to deliver workforce-relevant programs but also continuing to grow in transformative ways that meet the evolving needs of our students and communities.”

Project Kitty Hawk will assist A&T launch two Flight Path applications in January 2026: B.S. in legal justice and B.A. in liberal research. Come fall, they’ll launch the human assets administration focus of the college’s highly-ranked MBA program, in addition to one other program to be named.

Over the next 18 months, Project Kitty Hawk and A&T count on to launch 4 further applications. They anticipate including a projected 4,000 A&T college students via Flight Path applications over the subsequent 5 years.

Chancellor James R. Martin II and Project Kitty Hawk President and CEO Andrew Kelly, Ph.D., signed a memorandum of understanding throughout a ceremony Tuesday morning on the A&T Farm Pavilion.

“We’re excited to extend N.C. A&T’s reach to adult learners through online degree programs that feature the same academic excellence and rigor that define the university’s brand,” mentioned Kelly.

This makes the fourth such partnership between Project Kitty Hawk and a UNC System college, becoming a member of Appalachian State University, East Carolina University and North Carolina Central University. Project Kitty Hawk additionally works with Fayetteville State University, UNC Greensboro and UNC-Chapel Hill. To date, 15 Flight Path applications are lively.

Deanna Satterwhite, a 32-year-old A&T distance studying pupil, known as Project Kitty Hawk’s mission to empower two million North Carolinians to achieve their academic objectives by 2030 “a lifeline.”

In 2018, simply two weeks earlier than Satterwhite’s first day at A&T, she discovered she had kidney failure and started dialysis. Four years later, she acquired a life-saving kidney transplant. During that very same interval, she misplaced sight in her left eye as the results of a automotive accident.

“The idea of sitting in a classroom every day while managing treatments, appointments, and recovery was overwhelming. But then online learning changed everything,” mentioned Satterwhite, who’s working towards a B.A. in liberal research with a focus in economics. “Online education didn’t just offer flexibility – it offered dignity. It reminded me that I was still capable. That my goals were still valid. And that even on the hardest days, I could still move forward.”

More than 1,700 college students have been served by a Flight Path program because the first program launched in Fall 2023. New pupil enrollment throughout Project Kitty Hawk’s program portfolio grew fivefold from 2023-24 to 2024-25, and applications boast an total persistence charge of 88 %. The educational applications have generated $10 million in further tuition income for college companions.