The Academy Research and Development Institute (ARDI) provides the academic endowment programs that support distinguished professor chairs and other programs at the Unites States Air Force Academy (USAFA)

Endowments

The Academy Research and Development Institute (ARDI) provides the academic endowments that support distinguished professor chairs and other programs at the Unites States Air Force Academy (USAFA)

The Academy Research and Development Institute (ARDI) provides the academic endowment programs that support distinguished professor chairs and other programs at the Unites States Air Force Academy (USAFA)

Education Technology - Holland H. Coors Chair

Brig. Gen. Dana Born speaks to a group of cadets, including Cadet 3rd Class Erika Martin from Cadet Squadron 08 (Photo by Mike Kaplan)

FalconSAT is one of the programs supported by The Academy Research and Development Institute (ARDI)

FalconSAT

A satellite dish at the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska reflects light from a sunset prior to liftoff of a rocket carrying the Air Force Academy's FalconSAT-5 at the complex Nov. 19, 2010. FalconSAT is a capstone program in which Academy cadets design, build, test and operate a satellite. (U.S. Air Force photo)

ARDI

The Academy Research and Development Institute (ARDI) was established in 1984 to support academic excellence at the United States Air Force Academy. ARDI has raised more than $20 million, endowing distinguished visiting professorships and supporting other academic programs benefiting cadets and enriching the Faculty.

ARDI Endowed Chairs

The endowed chair is a special symbol of excellence in education. For decades, endowed chairs have enhanced the faculty at many of America’s outstanding academic institutions. The Air Force Academy joins them by means of the ARDI endowment program, helping the Academy remain in the top tier of educational excellence.

You can help establish a truly enduring gift which reflects in perpetuity the generous vision of its founder and the power of knowledge. Please contact ARDI to find out how you can support the development of endowments.

New Endowment: The General Benjamin O. Davis Endowed Chair
General Benjamin O. Davis
Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin O. Davis
F-86 flight 51st FIW Korea

ARDI is pleased to announce that this Chair is being developed in honor of General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (1912 – 2002) Davis was the first African-American general in the United States Air Force and advanced to four-star general on December 9, 1998.

Please contact ARDI to find out how you can support the development of these endowments.