Improving the Success of Low-Income Students in a Cybersecurity Program

提高低收入学生在网络安全计划中的成功率

• 批准号: 1742309
• 负责人: Brian Payne
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Old Dominion University Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1742309&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Success; Low; Income; Students

With funding from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the "Improving the Success of Low-Income Students in a Cybersecurity Program" project will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. The program targets students in the Cybersecurity program at Old Dominion University. This five-year S-STEM Track 2 project will fund up to 18 scholarships and will provide students with academic support through mentoring and other program activities. This S-STEM program at Old Dominion University consists of the scholarship program, the support systems, and a strong evaluation and research plan. It aims to accomplish the following outcomes: (1) generate knowledge about the effectiveness of curricular and extracurricular activities that increase retention and graduation of low-income students from three specific groups: military-affiliated, first-generation, and underrepresented minority students; (2) develop a student-support approach that solves the challenges in this cybersecurity STEM program, which is inherently interdisciplinary; and (3) implement a program that engages students in hands-on labs, cyber competitions, research, and internships, so that they develop the hands-on skills desired by the cybersecurity industry.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在NSF科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）计划的资助下，“提高低收入学生在网络安全计划中的成功”项目将支持表现出色的低收入学生。 该计划的目标是在旧自治领大学网络安全计划的学生。这个为期五年的S-STEM轨道2项目将资助多达18个奖学金，并将通过指导和其他计划活动为学生提供学术支持。这在老自治领大学的S-STEM计划包括奖学金计划，支持系统，以及强大的评估和研究计划。它旨在实现以下成果：（1）产生有关课程和课外活动的有效性的知识，这些活动增加了来自三个特定群体的低收入学生的保留和毕业：军事附属，第一代和代表性不足的少数民族学生;（2）开发学生支持方法，解决这个网络安全STEM计划中的挑战，这本身就是跨学科的;以及（3）实施一个让学生参与动手实验室、网络竞赛、研究和实习的计划，以便他们发展网络安全行业所需的动手技能。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。