Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
They are cutting the flight program to make room for new nursing and education courses. 10 years from now all the students will wonder why their school is located next to an airport. The real shame is the impact on the airport. The maintenance companies on the field will lose a lot of business, the FBOs on the field will lose the spillover business (which represents 80% of their customers), and the airport will lose funding as the daily operations tank.
ITT handled it poorly. They told students that had no interest in ending the flight program when they bought the place, but it turns out they planned on doing this from the beginning. In the original plan for the ITT buy out, they agreed that they would not make any major alternations to the day to day activities on campus.
And.................. ITT goes bankrupt, Daniel Webster College is finished. Maybe it will make a nice asbestos filled apartment complex one day.