CyberCorps Scholars: Mentoring for Success through a Community-Based Life-Cycle Approach

Cyber​​Corps 学者：通过基于社区的生命周期方法指导成功

• 批准号: 1921840
• 负责人: Lonnie Decker
• 金额: $ 398.57万
• 依托单位: Davenport University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1921840&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CyberCorps; Scholars; Mentoring; Success; through

The new CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at Davenport University (DU) will support and prepare a total of 28 students for cybersecurity careers in the federal, state, local, and tribal government workforce. This program will help address the shortage of cybersecurity professionals in Michigan and across the U.S., while diversifying the cyber defense field, with a focus on recruiting veterans, minorities, and women. DU's distinctive SFS program will leverage: the efficacy of the cascade mentoring model; a robust experiential learning curriculum, including industry-based research and public and private-sector internships; experience administering the Department of Defense's Cybersecurity Scholarship Program (CySP) (formerly IASP) and Information Security and Assurance Center (ISaAC) programming; engagement in collegiate cyber defense competitions; and a student-centered cybersecurity faculty with diverse expertise and industry experience. DU will produce cohorts of diverse SFS Scholar graduates who have not only mastered a rigorous cybersecurity curriculum and gained ample industry-based experience in cyber defense but have also developed skills in collaborating with peers, creating connections within the cybersecurity community, and mentoring up-and-coming cybersecurity students. In partnership with Michigan K-12 institutions, community colleges, and industry, DU will develop a Cyber Education Taskforce that will identify and address gaps in the pipeline through outreach, mentoring, cohort development, and experiential learning. The program's strategies will be evaluated and disseminated to serve as best practices for replication at other National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CD) institutions. DU is designated as a CAE-CD and a Center of Digital Forensics Academic Excellence. The goal of DU's SFS program is to address the urgent shortage of cybersecurity professionals in Michigan and across the nation by directly supporting Scholars and by building DU's capacity to recruit, support, retain, and graduate future cybersecurity students in coordination with Grand Rapids educational partners. DU's SFS program will support 24 undergraduate and four graduate Scholars enrolled in cyber defense degree programs. Nine of these undergraduates will begin as sophomores enrolled in the Cyber Security Program at Grand Rapids Community College and then transfer to DU's College of Technology (CoT) to complete their bachelor's degrees. SFS Scholars will pursue degrees in one of six CoT cybersecurity bachelor's programs or in one of three cybersecurity master's programs. Methods for supporting and retaining SFS Scholars include new cohort-building activities; cascade mentoring opportunities with faculty, alumni, industry professionals, and peers; career preparation and internships; academic support; and enhanced research experiences. DU will leverage its track record in placing students in public sector cybersecurity positions to ensure that SFS Scholars will be well-equipped to serve government agencies, with federal agencies in the executive branch, and to fulfill their service obligations. To expand both internal and external cybersecurity capacity, DU will work with community partners in cybersecurity education to implement a Community-Based Life Cycle approach, which will improve coordination to address attrition at various time-points in the cybersecurity education pipeline through the creation of mentoring relationships for SFS Scholars and other students who follow them in the pipeline.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.

达文波特大学(DU)新的CyberCorps：服务奖学金(SFS)计划将支持和准备总共28名学生在联邦、州、地方和部落政府的工作人员中从事网络安全职业。该计划将帮助解决密歇根州和全美网络安全专业人员短缺的问题，同时使网络防御领域多样化，重点是招募退伍军人、少数族裔和女性。DU独特的SFS计划将利用：级联指导模式的有效性；强大的体验式学习课程，包括基于行业的研究和公共和私营部门的实习；管理国防部的网络安全奖学金计划(CySP)(前身为IASP)和信息安全与保障中心(ISAC)编程的经验；参与大学网络防御比赛；以及以学生为中心的网络安全教员，拥有不同的专业知识和行业经验。杜军将培养一批形形色色的SFS学者毕业生，他们不仅掌握了严格的网络安全课程，在网络防御方面获得了丰富的行业经验，而且还培养了与同行合作的技能，在网络安全社区内建立联系，并指导未来的网络安全学生。杜克大学将与密歇根州K-12教育机构、社区学院和行业合作，开发一个网络教育特别工作组，通过外展、指导、队列发展和体验式学习来确定和解决管道中的差距。该计划的战略将被评估和传播，作为其他国家网络防御教育学术卓越中心(CAE-CD)机构复制的最佳做法。杜军被指定为CAE-CD和数字取证学术卓越中心。杜克大学SFS项目的目标是解决密歇根州和全国网络安全专业人员的紧迫短缺问题，方法是直接支持学者，并与大急流城的教育合作伙伴合作，建设杜邦大学招收、支持、留住未来网络安全学生并使其毕业的能力。杜的SFS项目将支持24名本科生和4名研究生注册网络防御学位项目。其中九名本科生将从大急流社区学院网络安全项目的大二开始，然后转到杜克大学技术学院(COT)完成学士学位。SFS学者将在六个COT网络安全学士课程之一或三个网络安全硕士课程之一攻读学位。支持和留住SFS学者的方法包括新的队列建设活动；与教师、校友、行业专业人士和同行的级联指导机会；职业准备和实习；学术支持；以及增强研究经验。DU将利用其在公共部门网络安全职位安排学生的过往记录，以确保SFS学者将拥有良好的装备，为政府机构服务，与行政部门的联邦机构合作，并履行其服务义务。为了扩大内部和外部的网络安全能力，杜克大学将与网络安全教育中的社区合作伙伴合作，实施基于社区的生命周期方法，通过为SFS学者和其他在管道中跟随他们的学生创建指导关系，改善协调，以解决网络安全教育管道中不同时间点的自然减员问题。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。