Collaborative Project: Expanding Information Assurance Education

自1997年以来，FSU一直致力于建立和支持信息保障与安全的教育和研究项目。第一批信息保障课程于1999年秋季和2000年春季学期开设。此后，随着信息保障课程的增加和学生人数的增加，该项目稳步发展。FSU和FAMU之间的合作旨在通过帮助FAMU开发一个目前不存在的IA项目来使FAMU受益，并通过扩大其研究工作，增加少数民族在研究生项目中的代表性，以及通过提高本科水平的教学课程内容来加强FSU的项目。这个项目的创新之处在于它的适应性，以及它对巨大资源库的认可和利用。在FSU建立研究生IA项目中获得的知识和经验被转移到FSU和FAMU的本科项目中，那里有大量的学生正在寻求这样的机会。更广泛的影响这种方法从以前未开发的资源中产生了大量的IA毕业生。统计数据显示，在每年预计的100名毕业生中，60%至70%的学生将来自贫困和弱势群体。

FSU has been committed to building and supporting an education and research program in Information Assurance and Security since 1997. The first Information Assurance courses were offered in the fall 1999 and spring 2000 semesters. The program has grown steadily since, with the addition of expanded Information Assurance courses and a growing student population.This collaborative effort between FSU and FAMU is intended to benefit FAMU by helping to develop an IA program at FAMU that does not currently exist and to strengthen the program at FSU by broadening its research effort, increasing minority representation in its graduate program, and by enhancing its instructional course content at the undergraduate level.Intellectual MeritThis project is innovative in its adaptive nature and its recognition and leverage of a vast resource pool. The knowledge and experience gained in establishing the graduate IA program at FSU is transferred to undergraduate programs at FSU and FAMU, where large numbers of students are seeking such opportunities.Broader ImpactsThis approach produces a large number of IA graduates from previously untapped resources. Of the anticipated one hundred graduates per year, statistics show that sixty to seventy percent of these students will be from underprivileged and disadvantaged groups.