Fortifying Cybersecurity and Computing Education

加强网络安全和计算教育

• 批准号: 2055250
• 负责人: Elizabeth Hawthorne
• 金额: $ 59.98万
• 依托单位: Prince George's Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-15 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2055250&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Fortifying; Cybersecurity; Computing; Education

The need for a highly skilled cybersecurity and IT workforce is well documented and unequivocal. “Demand for security skills, once limited primarily to government and the defense industry, has spread throughout the economy” (Burning Glass, 2019). “Job growth is predicted to continue to outpace the number of available qualified workforce” (CyberSeek.org, 2020). Community and Technical Colleges respond to this need through their education of the skilled technical workforce. This project aims to strengthen and grow a specific component of that workforce, namely the nation’s cybersecurity/computing professionals. The project’s approach is to work to increase the quality of the requests for external support that these institutions seek to improve cybersecurity education at their campuses. Towards this end the project investigators plan to attract a diversity of community and technical college teams, composed of faculty, grant writers, and selected administrators and staff and provide team-based professional development designed to increase the competitiveness and innovativeness of each teams’ proposed efforts in support of the education of the cybersecurity/computing skilled technical workforce. In each year, up to twelve community and technical college teams of two faculty members and a grant writer will be accepted through an application process to participate in this team-based professional development and mentoring program. Each team will be carefully matched with and supported by a seasoned mentor who has been trained through a series of coaching sessions by the leadership team. Essential elements of the program, including mentor training, pre-workshop mentee preparation, a multi-day workshop, and post-workshop webinars coupled with team mentoring throughout the entire process, are designed to help participants crystalize their innovative ideas and develop competitive proposals for external support. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.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.

对高技能网络安全和IT劳动力的需求是有据可查的，而且是明确的。“对安全技能的需求，曾经主要限于政府和国防工业，已经遍布整个经济”（Burning Glass，2019）。“预计就业增长将继续超过可用合格劳动力的数量”（CyberSeek.org，2020年）。社区和技术学院通过对熟练技术劳动力的教育来满足这一需求。该项目旨在加强和发展该劳动力的一个特定组成部分，即国家的网络安全/计算专业人员。该项目的方法是努力提高这些机构寻求改善校园网络安全教育的外部支持请求的质量。为此，项目调查人员计划吸引社区和技术学院团队的多样性，由教师，赠款作家和选定的管理人员和工作人员组成，并提供基于团队的专业发展，旨在提高每个团队的竞争力和创新性，以支持网络安全/计算熟练技术劳动力的教育。每年，多达12个社区和技术学院团队的两名教师和一名赠款作家将通过申请程序被接受参加这个基于团队的专业发展和指导计划。每个团队都将得到一位经验丰富的导师的精心配合和支持，该导师已通过领导团队的一系列辅导课程进行了培训。 该计划的基本要素包括导师培训、研讨会前学员准备、为期多日的研讨会和研讨会后的网络研讨会，以及整个过程中的团队指导，旨在帮助参与者明确他们的创新想法，并为外部支持制定有竞争力的提案。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。