"This is really great and it's the outcome we've been hoping to achieve," UNC Vice President for Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer Dale Pratt said after the meeting.
"It's important to me because ever since I was little I wanted to get a degree," Duarte said. "If I wanted a better future, I knew I had to finish school."
A 3D design class in the UNC School of Art and Design wanted to bring awareness to mental health challenges through art activism, according to an April 18 post on the school's Instagram page.