CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Preparing Future Cybersecurity LeADERS through Applied Learning Experiences

Old自治领大学（ODU）网络安全学院将通过其CyberCorps®服务奖学金（SFS）网络领袖计划解决网络安全领域对合格政府工作人员的需求。这一举措将使ODU，Tidewater社区学院（TCC）和托马斯纳尔逊社区学院（TNCC）的教师保持一致，将应用经验充分融入24名SFS学生的学术课程。SFS学生将包括计划转入ODU的社区大学学生和寻求网络安全学士和硕士学位的ODU学生。使用ODU的LeADERS计划作为基础，参与SFS网络领导者将获得指导和经验，使他们走上网络安全政府职业生涯的道路。更具体地说，鼓励领导者参加课程或从事与领导力，学术实习，多样性，创业精神，研究和服务学习相关的应用经验。学生通过电子档案袋（e-portfolio）的开发记录和展示他们的学习，电子档案袋由首字母缩略词“LeADERS”中的小写字母“e”表示。ODU网络安全学院是美国最早的跨学科网络安全学院之一，提供本科和研究生课程。ODU网络安全学院是美国最早的跨学科网络安全学院之一，是美国最早的网络安全学院之一，也是美国最早的网络安全学院之一。 合作机构，TCC和TNCC，都提供副学士学位，并已被指定为国家安全局（NSA）学术卓越中心（CAE）在网络防御教育和ODU的网络操作主要已被指定为网络操作的NSA CAE。ODU的跨学科本科和研究生网络安全课程包括法律，政策，领导力，跨学科写作，犯罪学，哲学，信息技术，计算机科学和计算机工程课程。该方法将利用ODU的创新LeADERS计划，激励学生参与综合和应用学习体验。 除了开发电子投资组合，完成实习，并从事服务学习，SFS网络领袖将参加辅导活动，结构化的研究项目，跨学科的编程，以及由网络安全和英联邦网络倡议学校提供的其他活动。学生的课外活动将与弗吉尼亚海岸网络创新中心协调，该中心是英联邦网络倡议（CCI）的一部分。该项目有可能为未来在NSA CAE指定项目之间转移学生的模式提供信息。该项目还将有助于提高政府网络安全工作人员的多样性，因为非裔美国人和西班牙裔学生占ODU网络安全学生的一半以上。 该项目由CyberCorps®服务奖学金（SFS）计划支持，该计划为建立或继续网络安全奖学金计划的提案提供资金，并与美国国家网络战略保持一致，以培养一支上级网络安全人才队伍。毕业后，奖学金获得者需要在联邦，州，地方或部落政府组织的网络安全工作与他们的奖学金支持相同的时间。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已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。

The Old Dominion University (ODU) School of Cybersecurity will address the need for qualified government workers in cybersecurity fields through its CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) Cyber LeADERS program. This initiative will align faculty from ODU, Tidewater Community College (TCC), and Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) to fully integrate applied experiences into the academic programming of 24 SFS students. The SFS students will include community college students planning to transfer to ODU and ODU students seeking Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in cybersecurity. Using ODU’s LeADERS program as a foundation, participating SFS Cyber LeADERS will receive guidance and experiences that put them on a pathway to a government career in cybersecurity. More specifically, LeADERS are encouraged to take courses or engage in applied experiences related to leadership, academic internships, diversity, entrepreneurship, research, and service learning. Students chronicle and demonstrate their learning through the development of an electronic portfolio (e-portfolio), which is represented by the lower case “e” in the acronym “LeADERS”. The combination of an interdisciplinary academic program that employs active learning and other high impact teaching strategies is expected to produce experienced graduates who are prepared to enter a wide range of governmental careers and address the national need for skilled cybersecurity professionals.Offering both undergraduate and graduate programming, the ODU School of Cybersecurity is one of the first interdisciplinary cybersecurity schools in the country. The partner institutions, TCC and TNCC, both offer associate’s degrees and have been designated as National Security Agency (NSA) Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cyber Defense Education and ODU’s Cyber Operations major has been designated as an NSA CAE in Cyber Operations. ODU’s interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate cybersecurity programs include courses in law, policy, leadership, interdisciplinary writing, criminology, philosophy, information technology, computer science, and computer engineering. The approach will leverage ODU’s innovative LeADERS program, which incentivizes students to participate in integrative and applied learning experiences. In addition to developing an e-portfolio, completing internships, and engaging in service learning, SFS Cyber LeADERS will participate in mentoring activities, structured research projects, interdisciplinary programming, and other activities provided by the School of Cybersecurity and the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative. Student co-curricular activities will be coordinated with the Coastal Virginia Center for Cyber Innovation that is part of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI). This project has the potential to inform future models of transferring students between NSA CAE designated programs. The project will also contribute to improving the diversity of the government’s cybersecurity workforce as African American and Hispanic students make up more than half of ODU cybersecurity students. This project is supported by the CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, which funds proposals establishing or continuing scholarship programs in cybersecurity and aligns with the U.S. National Cyber Strategy to develop a superior cybersecurity workforce. Following graduation, scholarship recipients are required to work in cybersecurity for a federal, state, local, or tribal Government organization for the same duration as their scholarship support.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.