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

田纳西理工大学（TNTech）项目的更新将使该CyberCorps®：服务奖学金（SFS）计划通过培养训练有素的网络安全专业人员继续支持国防。该计划通过结合教育，研究和推广方面的综合经验，并利用现有资源和教师和行政部门之间的大学范围内的合作，支持SFS学者的成功。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民族的代表性来提高网络安全劳动力的多样性。此外，该计划是田纳西州第一个有机会为经济困难的阿巴拉契亚地区服务的计划。随着Tech的计算机科学和网络安全计划的快速增长，更新使TNTech能够继续培养训练有素的网络安全专业人员，为国家的网络空间安全做出贡献。它还允许在SFS计划的新的创新，并使网络安全教育研究和推广中心在TNTech继续深化其地方，地区和国家的影响力. TNTech SFS计划的目标包括继续扩大高等教育的选择在网络安全为地方和地区的学生通过联邦奖学金的机会.该项目还将通过一个重视公平参与教育、研究和推广的计划，提高SFS学者的知识、技能、研究能力和服务学习动机。该方案将继续支持田纳西州（和该地区）联邦机构的SFS学者管道，同时旨在增加妇女和代表性不足的少数民族学生的参与。在这个新的项目期间，将继续评估方案绩效。该项目继续完善战略和技术，可能有效地解决SFS计划管理的挑战，包括学者入职，并为学者提供广泛的经验和灵活的路径。该项目由CyberCorps®奖学金服务（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，以制定一项上级网络安全人员。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 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.