Looks like University of North Dakota has set up a "pathway" program with Sun Country Airlines for UND's grads. Appears to follow the university-instructing-airline model. But...how will this be better than the pipelines leading to a regional ? The regionals lead to much quicker access to turbine PIC time (assuming the career-destination airlines will think this is important enough to be a discriminator) whereas upgrade at Sun Country will likely be rather long:
"Eligible students at UND will be required to complete their flight hours at the university. These hours can be and often are accrued when students become paid flight instructors for the school. This means that more qualified student-pilots will
remain at UND as flight instructors and continue teaching up-and-coming pilots."
http://media.aero.und.edu/avit.und.e...un-Country.pdf