McGraw-Hill's Aviation Week Group Announces Strategic Partnership with Embry-Riddle
Washington, D.C., Nov. 14, 1996 -- The McGraw-Hill Companies' Aviation Week Newsletter Group announced today that Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has joined the group's Aviation/Aerospace Scholars Program.
By partnering with Aviation Week Newsletters, Embry-Riddle will receive Internet access to the Aviation Week newsletters, which include Aviation Daily, Aerospace Daily, Airports, The Weekly of Business Aviation, O&M News and ATC Market Report.
They will also gain direct access to the publisher and editorial staffs of these prestigious and award-winning publications in person on campus, by telephone and via e-mail.
Other benefits are the ability to search the Aviation Week Newsletter Group's extensive historical database on the company's World Wide Web site and link to aviation- and aerospace-related companies and government agencies.
"This is a momentous occasion for both Aviation Week Newsletter Group and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University," said Aviation Week Newsletter Group publisher Edmund Pinto. "Our scholars program is an important educational initiative, where we can forge direct links between the classroom and business."
"By providing the most current and important intelligence on what's happening in the industry today to the aviation and aerospace professionals of tomorrow, we create a bridge between classroom and workplace that is critical to students and their instructors, and provide the aviation and aerospace industries with the opportunity to recruit graduating students who have up-to-the-minute real world knowledge."
Richard Waddell, Director of Library Services at Embry-Riddle said, "We are thrilled at the possiblities this partnership offers the students and faculty of Embry-Riddle. We can now provide our students around the world with Web access to the valuable information in the Aviation Week newsletters."
With campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, and teaching centers throughout the United States and Europe, Embry-Riddle is the world's oldest and largest university specializing in aviation and aerospace. It offers over 30 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering, aeronautical science, business administration, computer science, aviation maintenance and avionics, and space studies.
The McGraw-Hill Companies is a leading information services organization serving worldwide markets in education, business, the professions, finance and government. In addition to the newsletters, publications of The McGraw-Hill Companies' Aviation Week Group include Aviation Week & Space Technology, Business and Commercial Aviation and the World Aviation Directory.
For more information on how your school can participate in the Aviation Week Newsletter Group's Aviation/Aerospace Scholars Program, contact Barry Sheldon at 1-800-636-3438 or 202-383-2399.
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