Collaborative Research: Engaging the Mississippi Delta in CyberCorps

密西西比州立大学(MSU)提议与密西西比山谷州立大学(MVSU)共同建设网络安全教育能力。密西西比州州立大学是密西西比河三角洲中心的HBCU。在这一努力中，密歇根州立大学将在密歇根州立大学校园为密歇根州立大学的教职员工举办教师发展暑期研讨会。密歇根州立大学和密歇根州立大学将共同开发支持密歇根州立大学学生安全+认证的课程。密歇根州立大学还将与密歇根州立大学合作，加强密歇根州立大学的高中计算机科学夏令营计划。密歇根州立大学的网络创新中心建议与密歇根州立大学的数学、计算机和信息科学系以及密歇根州立大学的网络安全中心合作。这一合作关系将为密歇根州立大学的教职员工提供商业网络认证机会。密歇根州立大学将通过开发和提供认证考试的复习课程来促进这一目标。通过公开认证审查材料，密西西比州州立大学和密西西比州州立大学寻求促进密西西比河三角洲及其他地区的网络安全教育能力和经济发展。这一努力的一个关键早期成果是为密歇根州立大学的学生建立一个渠道，通过网络兵团：密歇根州立大学的服务奖学金(SFS)计划获得奖学金，以继续研究生学习。从长远来看，密歇根州立大学将帮助密歇根州立大学通过国家安全局(NSA)和国土安全部(DHS)共同赞助的国家网络防御学术卓越中心(CAE-CD)项目获得认证。战略目标是将MVSU定位为CAE-CD，并最终在MVSU建立一个服务于密西西比三角洲地区的SFS计划。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。

Mississippi State University (MSU) proposes to build cyber security education capacity with Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU). MVSU is an HBCU in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. In this effort, MSU will conduct faculty development summer workshops on the MSU campus for MVSU faculty. Together, MSU and MVSU will develop curricula that support Security+ certification of MVSU students. MSU will also work with MVSU to enhance MVSU's high school computer science summer camp program. MSU's Center for Cyber Innovation proposes to work with MVSU's Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences Department and MVSU's Center for Cyber Security. This partnership will provide commercial cyber certification opportunities for MVSU faculty and staff. MSU will facilitate this goal by developing and delivering a review course for the certification exam. By making the certification review material publicly available, MSU and MVSU seek to promote cyber security education capacity and economic development in the Mississippi Delta and beyond. A key early outcome of this effort is to establish a pipeline for MVSU students to be awarded scholarships through the CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at MSU to pursue graduate studies. Longer term, MSU will assist MVSU in becoming certified through the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) jointly sponsored National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) program. The strategic goals are to position MVSU as an CAE-CD and ultimately establish an SFS program at MVSU to serve the Mississippi Delta region.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.