Collaborative Project: Expansion and Enhancement of the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Program

密西西比州立大学(MSU)是美国国家安全局信息保障教育卓越中心(COE/IAE)，它将与杰克逊州立大学(JSU)和堪萨斯大学(KU)合作，共同努力提高这两个机构在信息保障方面的能力，并加强密西西比州立大学的COE/IAE项目。这三所院校的教师将致力于在JSU和KU开发IA课程，期望这两所学校将在2004-2005学年申请COE/IAE资格。这些合作努力旨在使三方不仅在两所目前没有IA课程的大学开发IA课程，而且通过扩大研究力度、增加少数族裔在其博士课程中的代表性以及通过增强其教学课程内容来加强MSU的IA课程。密歇根州立大学将通过让商业学院和艺术与科学学院参与我们的研究来进一步扩大其IA课程。这项建议启动了一个创新的项目，将促进学生在这一领域的研究和出版。

Mississippi State University (MSU), an NSA Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education (COE/IAE), will work with Jackson State University (JSU) and the University of Kansas (KU) though a collaborative and cooperative effort to increase these two institutions capacity in information assurance and to strengthen the COE/IAE program at MSU. The faculty from all three institutions will work to develop an IA curriculum at JSU and KU with an expectation that both schools will apply for COE/IAE status during academic year 2004-2005.These collaboration efforts are intended to be beneficial to all three parties in not only developing an IA program at two universities that currently do not have one but also in strengthening the program at MSU by broadening its research effort, increasing minority representation in its PhD program, and by enhancing its instructional course content. MSU will additionally expand its IA offerings by involving the College of Business and the College of Arts and Sciences in our research. This proposal initiates an innovative programs that will promote student research and publication in this area.