Minnesota aviation program gets donation to keep running
April 29, 2010, 09:00 pm
An aviation program at a university in Minnesota will continue on for the next three years because of private donors and businesses.
According to the Mankota Free Press, Minnesota State University's aviation program was given $600,000 to keep running over that time, though there are some strings attached to the gift. The program will be in a probationary state and will have to be able to attract enough interest from students to pay for itself.
"It was losing about $400,000 a year," university president Richard Davenport told the paper. "So that would have been the equivalent of four faculty."
To help encourage enrollment in the program, Davenport said the university will increase its attempts to attract students. He said students from a number of nearby states come to take part in the program, and that the school will focus on those areas.
While the university's program got a breather for the time being, other aviation education programs in the country have expanded. For example, the Federal Aviation Administration said its Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative was expanded by five schools for a total of 36.
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