Embry-Riddle Awarded $30 Million Military Education
Contract
Daytona Beach, Fla., Dec. 9, 2002 -- Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University has been awarded a $30 million contract
from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) that maintains
the university's status as the sole provider of aviation-related
degree programs to the U.S. military in Europe.
The contract extends the 30-year presence of Embry-Riddle
at U.S. military bases throughout Europe. Since 1972,
the university has provided aviation education to U.S.
military members under five consecutive contracts with
the DOD. The new award is effective August 2003 through
July 2013. Over the three decades that Embry-Riddle has
delivered programs overseas, more than 7,000 students
stationed in eight European nations have earned undergraduate
and graduate degrees and have gone on to pursue successful
careers in the military and in the aviation and aerospace
industries.
"As a long-standing provider of an exemplary university
experience to service members and their dependents worldwide,
we're delighted with this expression of confidence in
our ability to continue to do so in Europe," said Dr.
Robert Myers, chancellor of Embry-Riddle's Extended Campus.
Embry-Riddle's European Region of the Extended Campus
has established 10 fully staffed teaching centers, educating
as many students currently as have already graduated from
the program, over 7,000. More than 100 full-time and part-time
faculty members provide classroom education at U.S. military
bases in Giebelstadt, Hanau, Katterbach, Ramstein, and
Spangdahlem, Germany; Lakenheath and Mildenhall, England;
Aviano and Sigonella, Italy; and Rota, Spain.
The university's graduate and undergraduate Web-based
distance learning program is used at these centers, at
other remote bases and sites, and aboard ships--wherever
Internet access is available. The new DOD contract applies
to all lower-level and upper-level undergraduate aviation-related
courses leading to the A.S. and B.S. in Professional Aeronautics
and the B.S. in Management of Technical Operations. It
also covers all graduate courses required for the Master
of Aeronautical Science.
Embry-Riddle, the world's largest, fully accredited university
specializing in aviation and aerospace, meets the needs
of students and industry through its educational, training,
research, and consulting activities. The university educates
more than 25,000 students annually through the master's
level. Embry-Riddle's Extended Campus provides educational
opportunities for civilian and military professionals
in aviation and aerospace who prefer to attend classes
at times and locations that are convenient to them and
their busy professional and personal lives. Academic programs
are offered through the Extended Campus in the classroom
through a network of more than 150 teaching centers in
the United States and Europe and through distance learning.
For more information on Embry-Riddle in Europe, contact
Europe Regional Manager Dennis Grotrian at 011-49-631-98843
or grotriad@erau.edu.
Complete university information is available online at
www.embryriddle.edu.
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