Advancing Strategies in Cybersecurity Education and Career Development

保持计算机和信息系统的安全是一项关键需求，也是一项重大挑战。因此，企业、工业和政府需要准备充分的技术人员，他们可以预防、检测和调查网络安全漏洞。网络威胁的增长创造了对更多拥有保护数字基础设施的知识和技能的工人的需求。该项目将提供机会，通过教育技术人员以满足网络安全领域不断变化的需求，并通过加强从高中到大学再到雇主的渠道，扩大网络安全劳动力的参与。该项目将建立在迈阿密戴德学院先前NSF资助的项目（DUE-1800958）的基础上，该项目侧重于培养大学教师在网络安全方面的能力，开发大学学分证书和为期两年的网络安全理学副学士学位，并为首次进入大学和非传统学生创造获得这些证书的途径。新项目将侧重于加强与高中的关系，以改善学生到学院网络安全项目的管道，并支持保留，毕业，和就业安置的学生在科学副在网络安全计划。该项目的目标是加强管道从高中到大学-水平的网络安全学位课程，并通过调整他们的学习与雇主知情的技术和软技能能力嵌入结构化，应用学习经验，提高学生的就业能力。活动将包括在迈阿密戴德县公立学校的合作高中实施应用网络安全课程，为高中教师提供专业发展，为合作高中提供双招生课程，为高中学生举办网络安全夏令营，与商业/行业合作伙伴合作，将学生安置在实习和工作中，制定能力清单和实习计划样本，以指导雇主和学生，并提供学术成功辅导，以帮助学生完成网络安全计划的科学副学士。项目评估将专门研究招募高中生进入网络安全领域的策略，特别是来自STEM职业中尚未公平代表的群体的学生。 评估还将包括衡量高中教师为教授网络安全所做的准备以及进入当地公司网络安全职位的学生的准备情况。 该项目由先进技术教育（ATE）计划资助，该计划的重点是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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Keeping computers and information systems secure is a critical need and a major challenge. Thus, business, industry, and government need well-prepared technicians who can prevent, detect, and investigate cybersecurity breaches. The growth of cyber-threats has created a need for many more workers who have the knowledge and skills to protect digital infrastructure. This project will provide opportunities to broaden participation in the cybersecurity workforce by educating technicians to meet the evolving needs of the cybersecurity field and by strengthening the pipeline from high school to college to employer. This project will build on the results of Miami Dade College's prior NSF-funded project (DUE-1800958), which focused on building the capacity of college faculty in cybersecurity, developing a College Credit Certificate and a two-year Associate of Science degree in cybersecurity, and creating a pathway to these credentials for first-time-in-college and nontraditional students. The new project will focus on strengthening the relationship with high schools to improve the pipeline of students to the college's cybersecurity programs and supporting the retention, graduation, and job placement of students in the Associate of Science in Cybersecurity program.The project's objectives are to strengthen the pipeline from high school to college-level cybersecurity degree programs and to increase students' employability by aligning their learning with employer-informed technical and soft-skill competencies embedded in structured, applied learning experiences. Activities will include implementing an applied cybersecurity curriculum across partner high schools in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, providing professional development for high school teachers, offering dual-enrollment courses for partner high schools, hosting cybersecurity summer camps for high school students, collaborating with business/industry partners to place students in internships and jobs, developing a competency checklist and a sample internship plan to guide employers and students, and providing academic success coaching to help students complete the Associate of Science in Cybersecurity program. The project evaluation will specifically examine strategies for recruiting high school students into cybersecurity, especially students from groups that are not yet equitably represented in STEM careers. Evaluation will also include measures of high school teachers’ preparation for teaching cybersecurity and the preparedness of the students who move into cybersecurity positions at local companies. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program, which 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.