TENNESSEE CYBERCORPS: A HYBRID PROGRAM IN CYBERSECURITY

该提案将在田纳西理工大学启动一个赛博军团：服务奖学金（SFS）项目。混合项目，确保学生？参与网络安全方面的研究和推广活动，将为田纳西州的学生、女性学生和全国各地未被充分代表的少数族裔学生提供加速和传统的研究生学习途径。拟议的CyberCorps®是一项全校范围的努力，利用了计算机科学系、网络安全教育研究与推广中心、工程学院、学生成功中心、招生办公室、研究生院、图书馆、研究办公室和就业服务的资源和专业知识。这个CyberCorps®项目将是田纳西州的第一个项目，它将有机会服务于田纳西州的阿巴拉契亚地区。该项目将提供有潜力有效解决与SFS项目管理相关的挑战的策略和技术。该项目将根据已证明的证据，听取专家的建议，制定和实施一套有效管理SFS项目的最佳做法。该项目将借鉴研究人员的教学、研究和外联经验，以及评估专家的评估经验。该项目通过提供一个SFS计划，将带来更广泛的参与和更好的信息保障和网络安全劳动力准备，从而产生更广泛的影响。网络安全专业中代表性不足的学生是这个项目的主要焦点。因此，该项目的预期更广泛的影响是促进美国高等教育企业培养多元化网络安全专业人员的能力。作为其更广泛影响的一部分，该项目将通过向受TN承诺倡议影响的第一代/低收入社区大学生提供网络军团奖学金机会，为全州范围内解决技术工人短缺的努力做出贡献。由于TTU位于阿巴拉契亚中部并服务于阿巴拉契亚地区，因此该项目将有机会服务于TN的阿巴拉契亚地区，这是该国最贫穷的地区之一。该地区的受教育程度也低于全国平均水平。

This proposal will inaugurate a CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at the Tennessee Technological University. The hybrid program, ensuring students? participation in research and outreach activities alongside education in cybersecurity, will offer both accelerated and traditional graduate studies paths to students from Tennessee as well as students from women and underrepresented minority populations across the nation. The proposed CyberCorps® is a university-wide effort leveraging resources and expertise from the Computer Science Department, Cybersecurity Education Research and Outreach Center, College of Engineering, Student Success Center, Office of Admissions, College of Graduate Studies, Library, Office of Research, and Career Services. This CyberCorps® program will be the first one in the state of Tennessee and it will have the opportunity to serve the Appalachian area in Tennessee.The project will provide strategies and techniques that have the potential to be effective in addressing challenges associated with SFS program management. The project will take recommendations from experts based on demonstrated evidence to develop and exercise a suite of best practices for effective management of SFS program. The project will draw upon teaching, research and outreach experiences of the investigators, and the assessment experience of the evaluation specialist.The project provides broader impact by delivering a SFS program that will lead to broader participation and better preparation of the information assurance and cybersecurity workforce. Students underrepresented in cybersecurity are a major focus of this project. As such, an expected broader impact of the project is to contribute to the ability of the United States higher education enterprise to produce a diverse group of cybersecurity professionals. As part of its broader impact, this project will contribute to the statewide effort to meet a shortage of skilled workers by having the CyberCorps scholarship opportunity accessible to first-generation/low-income community college students impacted by the TN Promise initiative. Since TTU is situated within and serves Central Appalachia, this project will have the opportunity to serve the Appalachian area in TN, which is one of the poorest regions in the country. The region also has a lower education attainment level than the country as an average.