SFS: Scholarship Partnership with Alabama State University and Tuskegee University

通过这一奖学金计划，奥本大学正在帮助缓解联邦公务员体系中严重缺乏信息保障人员的问题。这种短缺在阿拉巴马州的亨茨维尔-雷石东兵工厂地区尤为严重。蒙哥马利-马克斯韦尔空军基地地区在地理上靠近奥本及其两个学术合作伙伴阿拉巴马州立大学和塔斯基吉大学，也存在短缺。奥本大学的SFS项目是多学科的，向工程学院、商业学院、科学与数学学院的学生以及合作机构塔斯基吉大学和阿拉巴马州立大学的学生提供SFS奖学金。塔斯基吉和阿拉巴马州立大学都是历史上的黑人学校。作为美国国家安全局和国土安全部指定的信息保障教育学术卓越中心，奥本大学致力于培养优秀的信息技术毕业生，并激励他们在联邦信息技术人员队伍中谋职。奥本与亨茨维尔和蒙哥马利地区的长期研究和教育关系使奥本能够通过在奖学金获得者的学术生涯早期将他们与联邦机构联系起来，为SFS项目的成功做出特殊贡献。奥本大学拥有庞大的、多样化的、多学科的教职员工，参与信息保障研究和教育。教师的多样性也反映在学生的多样性上，奥本有一个强有力的SFS学生招募和保留计划，其中有一个强有力的指导部分。SFS的学生也参与了教师的研究。

Through this scholarship program Auburn University is helping to mitigate the severe shortage of information assurance personnel in the Federal Civil Service. This shortage is particularly acute in the Huntsville-Redstone Arsenal region of Alabama. There are also shortages in the Montgomery-Maxwell AFB area that is geographically close to Auburn and its two academic partners, Alabama State University and Tuskegee University. The Auburn University SFS program is multi-disciplinary and is providing SFS scholarships to students enrolled in the College of Engineering, the College of Business, and the College of Science and Mathematics, as well as to students enrolled at partner institutions Tuskegee University and Alabama State University. Both Tuskegee and Alabama State are historically Black institutions. As a National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security designated Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, Auburn University is committed to developing outstanding IA graduates and motivating them for careers in the Federal IA workforce. Auburn's long-term research and education relationship with the Huntsville and Montgomery areas enable Auburn to make special contributions to the success of the SFS program by aligning scholarship recipients with Federal agencies early in their academic careers. Auburn University has large, diverse, multidisciplinary faculty involvement in information assurance research and education. Faculty diversity is also reflected in the student diversity, and Auburn has a strong SFS student recruitment and retention plan in place that has a strong mentoring component. SFS students also are participating in faculty research.