CyberCorps (R): Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program at Purdue University Northwest

普渡大学西北分校（PNW）是国家安全局/国土安全部指定的国家网络防御教育学术卓越中心（CAE），与两所CAE- 2y机构常青藤理工学院和莫雷纳山谷社区学院（MVCC）合作，提议共同建立普渡大学西北网络防御计划（PCDP），以招募，准备和支持18名PCDP学者在PNW成功过渡到联邦，州，地方，部落或地区政府雇佣网络安全专业人员。该项目旨在为创新网络安全教育体系的发展做出重大贡献，该体系可以通过网络军团：服务奖学金（SFS）计划培养无与伦比的网络安全未来劳动力。招收学生并让他们接触现实世界的网络安全研究和实践，将激励他们在这一关键领域发展实用的专业知识，并使他们在进入政府工作队伍时能够利用自己的经验。该项目旨在为MVCC和常春藤理工学院的学生建立一个无缝的途径，让他们继续在PNW的CAE-4Y网络安全项目中接受高等教育。机制包括新的课程衔接协议、课程共享、选修课推荐和课外活动合作。这三所学校之间的距离很近，这使得这一目标可以实现。PCDP将通过最大化教师参与和信息可及性来优化招聘；制定计划招收代表性不足的学生（如非裔美国人、西班牙裔、女性）；并制定计划，为PCDP项目的长期可持续性创造学生渠道。本项目创建的路径可以为社区大学生转本科提供一个实用的全国模式，有助于大幅度提高社区大学生四年专业转学率。PCDP项目的成功将为其他STEM学科在学生拓展、招聘、指导和安置等领域树立榜样。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Purdue University Northwest (PNW), a National Security Agency/Department of Homeland Security designated National Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cyber Defense Education, in collaboration with Ivy Tech and Moraine Valley Community College (MVCC), two CAE-2Y institutions, propose to jointly establish the Purdue Northwest Cyber Defenders Program (PCDP) to recruit, prepare, and support 18 PCDP Scholars at PNW to successfully transition to federal, state, local, tribal or territorial government employment as cybersecurity professionals. This project aims to make a significant contribution to the development of an innovative cybersecurity education system that can train an unrivaled cybersecurity future workforce through the CyberCorps(R): Scholarship for Service (SFS) program. Recruiting students and exposing them to real-world cybersecurity research and practices will motivate them to develop practical expertise in this critical field and allow them to leverage their experience as they enter the government workforce. This project seeks to establish a seamless pathway for students from MVCC and Ivy Tech to continue their higher education in PNW's CAE-4Y cybersecurity program. Mechanisms include new program articulation agreements, curriculum sharing, elective course recommendations, and extra-curricular activity collaboration. The short distances between the 3 institutions make this goal achievable. The PCDP will optimize recruitment by maximizing faculty involvement and information accessibility; developing plans to recruit underrepresented students (e.g., African American, Hispanic, female); and articulating plans to create a student pipeline for the long-term sustainability of PCDP program. The pathway created by this project can provide a practical national model for the transfer of community college students to a bachelor degree program, which will help to greatly improve the four-year program transfer rate for community college students. The success of PCDP program will establish a model for other STEM disciplines in the areas of student outreach, recruitment, mentoring, and placement.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.