CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (Renewal): Cross Disciplinary Cybersecurity Education for a Modern Workforce

该项目支持继续实施马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的CyberCorps®服务奖学金(SFS)计划。该计划利用该大学的高级课程来实现其主要目标，即为服务职业安置教育和培训网络安全研究人员和专业人员。它将支持大约31名本科生和研究生水平的学者，主要来自计算机科学和电气和计算机工程。该计划旨在通过强有力的同行指导、教师建议以及学术和专业支持来培养成功的群体。通过教育跨学科的网络安全学者，该项目将帮助培养新一代专业人员和研究人员，以解决社会和行业面临的新的和具有挑战性的问题。这些学生将有助于行政部门劳动力的现代化，促进政府实验室的科学和技术进步，并确保我们的国防安全。该项目将通过强大的课程、个性化的专业发展、跨学科的丰富、独特的研究机会和高质量的教学相结合，为学生在网络安全领域的成功职业生涯做好准备。该计划将继续积极招募和留住妇女和代表性不足的少数族裔进入马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学的本科生和研究生课程，作为主要目标。该计划包括马萨诸塞州大学阿默斯特分校以外的教职员工，以创建一个来自少数族裔服务机构的学生渠道，这些机构包括邦克山社区学院、霍利奥克社区学院和斯普林菲尔德技术社区学院，以及布鲁克代尔社区学院，这是一个国家科学基金会社区学院网络试点网站。该项目还包括与总部位于马萨诸塞州的非营利组织教育服务合作组织(Collaborative For Education Services)合作，为STEM职业招募高中生，特别是那些有色人种学生或低收入学生。该项目得到了CyberCorps®服务奖学金(SFS)计划的支持，该计划为设立或继续开展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，以培养一支优秀的网络安全队伍。毕业后，奖学金获得者被要求在联邦、州、地方或部落政府组织的网络安全工作中工作，时间与他们的奖学金支持相同。这一奖项反映了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。

This project supports the continuation of the CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst). This program leverages the University's advanced programs to achieve its main objective of educating and training cybersecurity researchers and professionals for service career placement. It will support approximately 31 undergraduate and graduate level scholars, primarily from Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. The program aims to foster successful cohorts through strong peer-mentoring, faculty advising, and academic and professional support. By educating cybersecurity scholars across disciplines, this program will help create a new generation of professionals and researchers to address novel and challenging problems facing society and industry. These students will help to modernize the Executive-branch workforce, advance science and technology at government laboratories, and secure our national defense. The program will prepare students for successful careers in cybersecurity through a combination of strong curricula, personalized professional development, interdisciplinary enrichment, unique research opportunities, and high-quality teaching. The program will continue to actively recruit and retain women and underrepresented minorities into UMass Amherst’s undergraduate and graduate programs as a primary objective. The program includes faculty and staff external to UMass Amherst to create a pipeline of students from minority-serving institutions, including Bunker Hill Community College, Holyoke Community College, and Springfield Technical Community College, as well as Brookdale Community College, which is a National Science Foundation Community College Cyber Pilot site. The program also includes a partnership with the Collaborative for Educational Services, a Massachusetts-based non-profit that recruits high school students for STEM careers, particularly those who are students of color or are low-income. 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.