County staff and commissioners discussed a formal partnership between Crawford County Technical Education Center (CTEC) and Wichita State University that will include a new aviation program and an Aug. 14 ribbon cutting and luncheon.

Commissioner Carl said the CTEC-WSU arrangement replaces a prior affiliation with another institution and will include an aviation program taught by a retired instructor who will serve local junior and senior high school students. "We're all invited to go, August 14 at 11:30... and then at 03:30, we're gonna have a ribbon cutting," Carl said. He described WSU as having "a cutting edge program" and noted the county's interest in the program's expansion to serve area high schools.

Officials said the partnership has been discussed for several months and that local stakeholders have worked to secure WSUparticipation; commissioners were invited to the lunch and ribbon-cutting events. No formal county funding was discussed during the remarks included in the transcript excerpt.