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

普渡大学西北（PNW），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），与常春藤理工学院和莫雷恩谷社区学院（MVCC），两个CAE-2 Y机构合作，提议共同建立普渡西北网络卫士计划（PCDP），以招募，准备，并支持PNW的18名PCDP学者成功过渡到联邦，州，地方，部落或领土政府就业，成为网络安全专业人员。该项目旨在为开发创新的网络安全教育系统做出重大贡献，该系统可以通过CyberCorps（R）：服务奖学金（SFS）计划培养无与伦比的网络安全未来劳动力。招募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，并使他们能够在进入政府工作队伍时利用自己的经验。该项目旨在为来自MVCC和Ivy Tech的学生建立一个无缝的途径，以继续他们在PNW的CAE-4 Y网络安全计划中的高等教育。机制包括新的计划衔接协议，课程共享，选修课程的建议，和课外活动的合作。这三个机构之间的短距离使这一目标得以实现。PCDP将通过最大限度地提高教师的参与和信息的可访问性来优化招聘;制定招聘代表性不足的学生的计划（例如，非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔，女性）;并阐明计划，以创建一个学生管道的长期可持续性的PCDP计划。该项目所创建的路径可以为社区学院学生转学士学位课程提供一个实用的全国模式，这将有助于大大提高社区学院学生的四年制课程转移率。PCDP项目的成功将为其他STEM学科在学生拓展、招募、指导和安置方面树立榜样。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

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.