CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Expanding the Cybersecurity Workforce and Curriculum Assessment Methods in the State of Wisconsin (CyberWIN)

马奎特大学(MU)的CyberWIN项目是国家网络防御教育学术卓越中心(CAE-CDE)，将招聘和培训下一代网络安全专业人员，以满足公共部门的需求。CyberWIN将在加速和传统的计算机和信息科学硕士项目中支持总共16名学生，这些项目的专业是信息保障和网络防御，以及计算机科学博士项目，重点是网络安全研究。除了参与严格的课程作业、网络安全研究项目以及学习分析、座谈会和黑客马拉松外，这16名学者还将指导密尔沃基联邦三重奏项目-向上界限数学与科学项目的高中生，目标是扩大对计算和网络安全的参与。CyberWIN有五个目标：(1)在项目的五年期间培养14名网络安全硕士毕业生和2名博士毕业生，(2)从不同背景招募具有高学术成功潜力的潜在学者，(3)提供高质量的指导，特别是在核心网络安全课程方面，(4)与州和联邦机构建立牢固的合作关系，将学者安排在实习和全职任命中，以及(5)基于概念图，为学习分析社区贡献一种新的项目评估方法。通过这一新颖的评估，该项目将进一步评估和比较特定群体的专业发展，例如，基于课程作业、实习经验或人口统计。CyberWIN有可能发现提高学生承诺的高影响力实践，以及个人经历可能对决定他们的任何影响。这一框架旨在通过丰富的、可供其他机构采用的多维分析来获取完整的教育经验。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。奖学金获得者毕业后必须在联邦、州、地方或部落政府组织中从事网络安全工作，工作时间与他们的奖学金支持期限相同。 该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 CyberWIN project at Marquette University (MU), a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CDE), will recruit and train the next generation of cybersecurity professionals to meet the needs of the public sector. CyberWIN will support a total of 16 students across the accelerated and traditional Computer and Information Science M.S. programs, with a specialization in Information Assurance and Cyber Defense, and the Computer Science PhD program, with cybersecurity-focused research. Apart from their involvement in rigorous coursework, research projects in cybersecurity and learning analytics, symposia, and hackathons, the 16 scholars will also mentor Milwaukee high school students of the federal Trio program, Upward Bound Math & Science, with the goal of broadening participation in computing and cybersecurity. CyberWIN has five goals: (1) produce 14 Master’s degree graduates and 2 PhD degree graduates in cybersecurity during the five-year period of the project, (2) recruit prospective scholars with high potential of academic success from diverse backgrounds, (3) provide high quality instruction, especially in core cybersecurity classes, (4) cultivate a strong, collaborative relationship with state and federal agencies to place scholars in internships and full time appointments, and (5) contribute a novel program assessment methodology, based on concept maps, to the learning analytics community. Through this novel assessment, the project will further evaluate and compare the professional development of specific groups based on, for example, coursework, internship experiences, or demographics. CyberWIN has the potential to uncover the high-impact practices that increase students’ commitment and any effects that personal experiences may have on determining them. This framework aims to capture the whole educational experience through rich, multi-dimensional analysis that can be adopted by other institutions.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.