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），将招募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将支持总共16名学生在加速和传统的计算机和信息科学硕士。计划，在信息保障和网络防御专业化，以及计算机科学博士课程，与网络安全为重点的研究。除了参与严格的课程、网络安全和学习分析的研究项目、研讨会和黑客马拉松外，这16名学者还将指导密尔沃基高中学生参加联邦三人组项目“向上的数学科学”，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名网络安全博士毕业生，（2）招募来自不同背景的具有高学术成功潜力的未来学者，（3）提供高质量的教学，特别是在核心网络安全课程中，（4）培养一个强大的，与州和联邦机构的合作关系，将学者实习和全职任命，和（5）贡献一个新的程序评估方法，基于概念图，学习分析社区。通过这种新的评估，该项目将进一步评估和比较基于，例如，课程，实习经验，或人口统计学的特定群体的专业发展。CyberWIN有可能揭示提高学生承诺的高影响力做法，以及个人经历可能对确定这些做法产生的任何影响。该项目由CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service（SFS）计划提供支持，该计划资助建立或继续网络安全奖学金计划的提案，并与美国国家网络战略保持一致，以培养一支上级网络安全人才队伍。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 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.