SAC Cyber Service Scholarship Program

SAC 网络服务奖学金计划

• 批准号: 1842287
• 负责人: Kim Muschalek
• 金额: $ 56.88万
• 依托单位: San Antonio College
• 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: 2018-09-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1842287&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SAC; Cyber; Service; Scholarship; Program

The Cyber Service Scholarship (CSS) project is funded under the National Science Foundation's Community College Cyber Pilot Program (C3P). Its objective is to enable 20 academically talented Computer and Information Science majors at San Antonio College (SAC), who are veterans of the Armed Forces and/or bachelor's degree holders, to complete the AAS in Information Assurance (IA) and Cyber Security and enter a federal, state, local, or tribal government position related to cybersecurity. The project is in alignment with the National Defense Authorization Act of 2018. San Antonio is an optimal location for this pilot effort as it is a major hub for veterans and for government-funded cybersecurity operations that are actively looking for qualified employees. Developing and testing a model for improving cybersecurity education at SAC provides a unique opportunity to assess the effectiveness of the proposed interventions on veterans and Hispanic students. SAC is designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense 2-Year Education (CAE-2Y).This CSS project will integrate research on best practices in persistence and retention strategies for veteran and underrepresented STEM majors and will advance the discovery and understanding about these issues among cybersecurity educators while promoting teaching, training and learning through faculty-student advising and mentorship. The project aims to generate knowledge associated with improving cybersecurity education and student outcomes at SAC, a Hispanic-Serving Institution that educates the largest student veteran population in San Antonio, along increasing the number of highly skilled, academically talented students who enter government service immediately after graduation. The project outcomes can provide potential solutions for other CAE and CAEY2-designated programs that are preparing a significant portion of the nation's cybersecurity workforce. SAC is also in a unique position to disseminate this knowledge via its role as a regional support center for prospective CAE and CAEY2 programs throughout the southwest.Co-funding for this project is provided from the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) and NSF Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) programs, reflecting alignment of the project with major emphases of the ATE program on involvement of community colleges and the S-STEM program on financial and co-curricular support for high-achieving students with demonstrated financial need.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.

网络服务奖学金（CSS）项目由国家科学基金会的社区学院网络试点计划（C3 P）资助。它的目标是使20个学术人才的计算机和信息科学专业在圣安东尼奥学院（SAC），谁是武装部队的退伍军人和/或学士学位持有人，完成AAS信息保证（IA）和网络安全，并进入联邦，州，地方或部落政府的位置与网络安全。该项目符合2018年国防授权法案。圣安东尼奥是这项试点工作的最佳地点，因为它是退伍军人和政府资助的网络安全业务的主要中心，这些业务正在积极寻找合格的员工。开发和测试一个模型，以改善网络安全教育在SAC提供了一个独特的机会，以评估拟议的干预措施对退伍军人和西班牙裔学生的有效性。SAC被指定为国家网络防御两年制教育学术卓越中心（CAE-2 Y）。该CSS项目将整合对资深和代表性不足的STEM专业的持久性和保留策略的最佳实践的研究，并将促进网络安全教育工作者对这些问题的发现和理解，同时通过师生咨询和指导促进教学，培训和学习。该项目旨在产生与改善网络安全教育和学生在SAC，一个西班牙裔服务机构，教育在圣安东尼奥最大的学生退伍军人人口相关的知识，沿着增加高技能，学术才华的学生毕业后立即进入政府服务的数量。该项目的成果可以为其他CAE和CAEY 2指定的计划提供潜在的解决方案，这些计划正在为国家的网络安全劳动力的重要部分做准备。SAC也处于一个独特的位置，通过其作为整个西南部潜在CAE和CAEY 2项目的区域支持中心的角色来传播这方面的知识。该项目的共同资金来自高级技术教育（ATE）和NSF STEM奖学金（S-STEM）项目，反映了该项目与ATE计划关于社区学院参与的主要重点以及S-STEM计划关于财务和合作的主要重点的一致性，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是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的支持。