Springfield, Ohio — Clark State Community College has joined Wright State University in adding advanced technical intelligence to its academic offerings — part of a collaborative effort to fill an estimated 500 ATI-related jobs coming to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and related employers.

The schools have partnered with the Advanced Technical Intelligence Center for Human Capital to create a Certificate in Advanced Technical Intelligence, with Wright State also offering a certificate in Remote Sensing and Clark State's Greene Center, this fall, offering an Associate of Science in ATI. Sinclair Community College will come on board in the spring with its Associate of Science in ATI.

Wright State awarded its first ATI certificates to 22 graduates in May. All have secured jobs in the field, said Jan Long, ATIC's staff developer.

"There are jobs readily available that are related to technical intelligence," Long said.

The ATI degree and certificate programs "are the first of several new programs that are being developed at the Greene Center in order to meet the immediate and future community and workforce needs of Greene County," said Clark State's president, Karen Rafinski.

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