{"id":16464,"date":"2020-09-22T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=16464"},"modified":"2020-09-22T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T12:40:53","slug":"more-schools-join-the-uas-collegiate-training-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/aviation-education\/more-schools-join-the-uas-collegiate-training-initiative\/%20","title":{"rendered":"More Schools Join the UAS Collegiate Training Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced recently\nthat an additional 15 schools have been selected to participate in the Unmanned\nAircraft Systems (UAS) Collegiate Training Initiative (UAS-CTI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new schools are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Austin Community College, Austin, Texas<\/li><li>Atlantic Cape Community College, Mays Landing,\nNew Jersey<\/li><li>Big Bend Community College, Moses Lake,\nWashington<\/li><li>Blue Ridge Community and Technical College,\nMartinsburg, West Virginia<\/li><li>Carroll Community College, Westminster, Maryland<\/li><li>Clark State Community College, Springfield, Ohio<\/li><li>Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City,\nNorth Carolina<\/li><li>Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida<\/li><li>Fullerton College, Fullerton California<\/li><li>Kansas State Polytechnic, Salina, Kansas<\/li><li>Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia<\/li><li>Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro,\nTennessee<\/li><li>Mitchell Technical College, Mitchell, South\nDakota<\/li><li>Southern West Virginia Community and Technical\nCollege, Mount Gay, West Virginia<\/li><li>Yavapai College, Prescott, Arizona<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The FAA\u2019s CTI program allows educational institutions to\ncollaborate with the FAA to help students pursue their aviation career goals.\nThe UAS-CTI program recognizes institutions that prepare students for careers\ninvolving UAS, commonly referred to as drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new schools join 26 schools that have already been\nselected to participate in the program. These previously selected schools are\nlisted below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton,\nOregon<\/li><li>Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon<\/li><li>Dakota College, Bottineau, North Dakota<\/li><li>Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona\nBeach, FL, Prescott, AZ, and Worldwide Campus<\/li><li>Green River College, Auburn, Washington<\/li><li>Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City,\nFlorida<\/li><li>Hazard Community and Technical College, Hazard,\nKentucky<\/li><li>Hinds Community College, Raymond, Mississippi<\/li><li>Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho<\/li><li>Indiana State University, Terra Haute, Indiana<\/li><li>Mira Costa College, Carlsbad, California<\/li><li>Mountain Empire Community College, Big Stone\nGap, Virginia<\/li><li>Mountwest Community and Technical College,\nHuntington, West Virginia<\/li><li>Niagara Community College, Sanborn, New York<\/li><li>North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North\nCarolina<\/li><li>Northeastern Technical College, Cheraw, South\nCarolina<\/li><li>Northland Community and Technical College, Thief\nRiver Falls, Minnesota<\/li><li>Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse,\nMichigan<\/li><li>Oklahoma City Community College, Oklahoma City,\nOklahoma<\/li><li>Palomar College District, San Marcos, California<\/li><li>Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa,\nCalifornia<\/li><li>Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California<\/li><li>Tallahassee Community College, Tallahassee,\nFlorida<\/li><li>University of Maine at Augusta, Augusta, Maine<\/li><li>University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North\nDakota<\/li><li>WSU Tech, Wichita, Kansas<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The FAA launched the UAS-CTI program in April 2020.\nParticipating institutions will engage with the FAA, each other, general\nindustry, local governments, law enforcement, and regional economic development\nentities to address labor force needs. UAS-CTI school graduates will have the\nknowledge and skills needed to pursue a successful career in a UAS-related\nfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post-secondary institutions with UAS curriculums seeking recognition as UAS-CTI partners may still apply for this distinction. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/uas\/educational_users\/collegiate_training_initiative\/\">Program guidelines<\/a> are posted on the FAA website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-254)\nrequired the FAA to establish a collegiate training initiative program relating\nto unmanned aircraft and to establish a process to designate consortia of\npublic, two-year institutions of higher education as Community and Technical\nCollege Centers of Excellence in Small Unmanned Aircraft System Technology\nTraining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced recently that an additional 15 schools have been selected to participate in the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Collegiate Training Initiative (UAS-CTI). The new schools are: Austin Community College, Austin, Texas Atlantic Cape Community College, Mays Landing, New Jersey Big Bend Community College, Moses Lake, Washington Blue Ridge Community and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-unmanned-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FAA-Drone-Program.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16466,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464\/revisions\/16466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}