CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (Renewal): An Enhanced and Integrated Scholar Experience in Cybersecurity

田纳西理工大学(TNTech)项目的续签将使这项CyberCorps®：服务奖学金(SFS)计划能够继续通过培养训练有素的网络安全专业人员来支持国防。该计划通过结合教育、研究和推广方面的综合经验，以及利用现有资源和全校教职员工和管理人员之间的合作，为SFS学者的成功提供支持。TNTech CyberCorps®计划支持本科生和研究生，重点是通过增加女性和代表性不足的少数群体的代表来改善网络安全劳动力的多样性。此外，该项目是田纳西州第一个有机会服务于经济困难的阿巴拉契亚地区的项目。随着Tech计算机科学和网络安全项目的快速增长，续签使TNTech能够继续培养训练有素的网络安全专业人员，他们为国家的网络空间安全做出贡献。它还允许在SFS计划中进行新的创新，并使TNTech的网络安全教育研究和推广中心继续深化其在当地、地区和全国的影响。TNTech SFS计划的目标包括通过联邦奖学金机会继续扩大当地和地区学生在网络安全方面的高等教育选择。该项目还将通过一个重视公平参与教育、研究和外展的计划，提高SFS学者的知识、技能、研究能力和服务学习动机。该计划将继续支持向田纳西州(和该地区)的联邦机构输送SFS学者，同时旨在增加女性和代表不足的少数族裔学生的参与。在这一新的项目期内，将继续评估计划的绩效。该项目继续改进战略和技术，以潜在地有效地应对SFS项目管理挑战，包括学者入学，并为奖学金提供广泛的经验和灵活的途径。该项目由CyberCorps®服务奖学金(SFS)计划支持，该计划为建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劳动力队伍。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。

The renewal of the Tennessee Tech University (TNTech) project will allow this CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program to continue supporting National Defense through the production of well-trained cybersecurity professionals. The program supports the success of the SFS scholars by combining integrated experiences in education, research and outreach and leveraging existing resources and university-wide collaboration among faculty and administration. The TNTech CyberCorps® program supports both undergraduate and graduate students with a focus on improving the diversity of the cybersecurity workforce through increasing the representation of women and underrepresented minorities. In addition, the program is the first in the state of Tennessee with the opportunity to serve the economically distressed Appalachian region. With the rapid growth of Tech’s computer science and cybersecurity program, the renewal allows TNTech to continue to produce highly trained cybersecurity professionals who contribute to the nation’s cyberspace security. It also allows new innovations in the SFS program and enables the Cybersecurity Education Research and Outreach Center at TNTech to continue deepening its local, regional, and national impacts.The objectives of the TNTech SFS program include continuing to expand higher education choices in cybersecurity for local and regional students through federal scholarship opportunities. The project will also enhance SFS scholars’ knowledge, skills, research aptitude, and service-learning motivation through a program that values fair participation in education, research and outreach. The program will continue supporting the pipeline of SFS scholars to federal agencies in Tennessee (and the region) while aiming to increase women and underrepresented minority students’ participation. Program performance will continue to be assessed in this new project period. The project continues to refine strategies and techniques that can potentially be effective in addressing SFS program management challenges including scholar on-boarding and providing wide-ranging experiences and flexible paths for scholars.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.