FAA OKs Eight Additional Schools For ATC TrainingThe FAA has added eight schools to its list of colleges and universities approved to train students for careers as air traffic controllers. In the past five years, schools that are part of the FAA’s CTI program — the Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative — have graduated more than 4,000 students from their aviation programs. Three thousand of those graduates were hired by the FAA. The agency plans to hire more than 2,000 additional new controllers in fiscal year 2009. “These schools are an excellent jump start for a job in air traffic control,” said Robert Sturgell, the FAA’s acting administrator. “These institutions will give thousands of future controllers an inside track on a great career.” The addition of the eight new schools increases the number of CTI schools to 31. All of the schools are accredited and offer a non-engineering aviation degree.
The eight new schools are: Aims Community College (Colorado), Broward Community College (Florida), Eastern New Mexico-Roswell (New Mexico), Embry Riddle-Prescott (Arizona), Jacksonville University (Florida), LeTourneau University (Texas), St. Cloud State University (Minnesota), and Tulsa Community College (Oklahoma).
