CyberCorps Scholarship for Service at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

这项提议将在马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校开启CyberCorps®服务奖学金(SFS)计划，该大学是英联邦？S的旗舰高等教育机构。该项目将支持和扩展S大学的几个高级项目，以教育和培训网络安全研究人员和专业人员。它将支持马萨诸塞州大学四个国家认可的学院和系的七名学者组成的四个跨学科队列：计算机科学、电气和计算机系统工程、数学和统计以及商科。拟议的计划有几个关键目标。它将创建CyberCorps®社区，通过强有力的同行指导、教员建议以及学术和专业支持确保他们的成功。该项目旨在100%安置在政府的网络安全职位，利用加州大学马萨诸塞州大学的教职员工S与各种联邦和州实验室和办公室的许多关系。马萨诸塞州大学S在网络安全方面的学术项目已经并将继续提供高质量的教育和研究机会，得到该领域领先学者的指导和合作。它的学术项目将通过继续扩展和整合跨学科材料来解决网络安全的多方面性质。该项目将通过强大的课程、充分的专业发展、广泛的咨询、跨学科的丰富和获得招聘机会的机会，为学生在网络安全领域的成功职业生涯做好准备。此外，该计划将继续并扩大马萨诸塞州大学S分校现有的机制，以招募和保留女性和未被充分代表的少数民族进入我们的本科生和研究生课程。该计划将通过培训28名网络安全专业人员直接影响网络安全工作人员。此外，该计划还直接鼓励教师之间的跨学科合作。更广泛地说，该计划下的发展，包括课程设置、专业发展、广泛的跨学科合作，以及以女性和代表性不足的少数族裔为重点的招聘，将为在可预见的未来吸引更多学生进入麻省理工大学S网络安全课程提供广泛和持续的基础。

This proposal will inaugurate a CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) at Amherst, the Commonwealth?s flagship institution of higher education. This program will support and expand several of the University?s advanced programs that educate and train cybersecurity researchers and professionals. It will support four interdisciplinary cohorts of seven scholars across four nationally-recognized colleges and departments at UMass: computer science, electrical and computer systems engineering, mathematics and statistics, and business. The proposed program has several key objectives. It will create the CyberCorps® community that ensures their success through strong peer-mentoring, faculty advising, and academic and professional support. The program intends a 100% placement in government cybersecurity positions, leveraging the UMass faculty?s many relationships with various federal and state labs and offices. UMass?s academic programs in cybersecurity have and will continue to provide high-quality education and research opportunities, with instruction from and collaboration with leading scholars in the field. Its academic programs will address the multifaceted nature of cybersecurity by continuing to expand and integrating interdisciplinary material. The program will prepare students for successful careers in cybersecurity, through a combination of strong curricula, ample professional development, extensive advising, interdisciplinary enrichment, and access to recruiting opportunities. In addition, the program will continue and expand UMass?s existing mechanisms to recruit and retain women and underrepresented minorities into our undergraduate and graduate programs. This program will directly impact the cybersecurity workforce by training 28 cybersecurity professionals. Further, this program directly encourages interdisciplinary work between faculty. More generally, the developments under this program, including curriculum, professional development, broad interdisciplinary collaboration, and recruiting focused on women and underrepresented minorities will provide a broad and sustained base to attract more students into UMass?s cybersecurity programs into the foreseeable future.