From the article:
CTI = College Training Initiative.
Thirty-six colleges around the nation (including ASU) offer degrees in air traffic management. The FAA has changed it hiring policy from hiring from a pool of military vets and graduates from universities with air traffic management programs.
The new policy is to hire “off the street”, with part of the screening process an online “biographic exam”. The FAA will then train the air traffic control applicants.
IOW, they are using our money to endanger us, and denying opportunities to qualified applicants, because...why? They think we deserve it? They think it will help members of a preferred race?