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

普渡大学西北分校(PNW)是美国国家安全局/国土安全部指定的国家网络防御教育学术卓越中心(CAE)，它与常春藤理工大学和莫雷恩山谷社区学院(MVCC)这两所CAE-2Y院校合作，提议共同建立普渡西北网络防御者计划(PCDP)，以招募、准备和支持PNW的18名PCDP学者，以成功过渡到联邦、州、地方、部落或地区政府工作，成为网络安全专业人员。该项目旨在通过CyberCorps(R)：服务奖学金(SFS)计划，为开发创新的网络安全教育系统做出重大贡献，以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真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专业知识，并使他们能够在进入政府工作人员时利用自己的经验。该项目旨在为MVCC和常春藤理工大学的学生在PNW的CAE-4Y网络安全项目中继续他们的高等教育建立一条无缝的途径。机制包括新的课程衔接协议、课程共享、选修课程推荐和课外活动合作。这三个机构之间的距离很短，这使得这一目标是可以实现的。PCDP将通过最大限度地提高教师参与度和信息可获得性来优化招聘；制定计划以招收代表性不足的学生(例如，非裔美国人、西班牙裔、女性)；并阐明为PCDP计划的长期可持续性创建学生管道的计划。该项目打造的路径可以为社区大学生本科转学提供一个实用的全国范本，有助于大幅提高社区大学生四年制项目转化率。PCDP项目的成功将在学生拓展、招生、指导和安置领域为其他STEM学科树立典范。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.