Securing the Future: Inclusive Cybersecurity Education for All

确保未来：全民包容性网络安全教育

• 批准号: 2350448
• 负责人: Michael E Hardin
• 金额: $ 64.9万
• 依托单位: Kentucky Community & Technical College System
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-05-01 至 2027-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2350448&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Securing; Future; Inclusive; Cybersecurity; Education

This project aims to serve the national interest by creating an inclusive cybersecurity technician education for all at Bluegrass Community and Technical College in order to secure the future cybersecurity workforce. The project intends to address Kentucky's shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals. The project team plans to investigate factors influencing high school and college students' career decisions, identify potential barriers to credential completion, and assess the impact of faculty and peer mentoring on student success. The project team intends to identify effective mentoring attributes in order to effectively recruit skilled technical employees. The project has the potential to increase enrollment in cybersecurity credentials by enhancing access to accurate information for high school students, teachers, and counselors. The project will support peer mentors, and summer workshops for high school teachers. A part-time retention and recruitment specialist plans to engage near-peer mentors to support minority and female students by hosting workshops of the cybersecurity career exploration across the college campus. The project team plans to recruit 240 diverse students (including female students and students from groups underrepresented in STEM) from local high schools into a hybrid campus program. This hybrid program includes various activities to expose students to cybersecurity skills, credentials and career pathways. The project will recruit and train 20 teachers or counselors over the life of the project. The project team will provide teachers or counselors with a basic understanding of cybersecurity so that they will be able to facilitate success for high school students enrolled in dual credit cybersecurity courses. The project findings will be disseminated to other community colleges across the state. 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.

该项目旨在通过为蓝草社区和技术学院的所有人创建包容性的网络安全技术教育来服务国家利益，以确保未来的网络安全劳动力。该项目旨在解决肯塔基州熟练的网络安全专业人员短缺的问题。项目团队计划调查影响高中和大学生职业决定的因素，确定凭证完成的潜在障碍，并评估教师和同伴指导对学生成功的影响。项目团队打算确定有效的指导属性，以有效招募熟练的技术员工。该项目有可能通过增强高中生，老师和辅导员获得准确信息的访问来增加网络安全证书的入学率。该项目将为高中老师提供同伴导师和夏季讲习班。兼职保留和招聘专家计划通过在大学校园内举办网络安全职业探索的讲习班来吸引近点导师，以支持少数民族和女学生。该项目团队计划从当地高中招募240名不同的学生（包括来自STEM中代表性不足的小组的学生），为混合校园计划。该混合动力计划包括各种活动，以使学生了解网络安全技能，证书和职业道路。该项目将在该项目的一生中招募和培训20名教师或辅导员。项目团队将为教师或辅导员提供对网络安全的基本了解，以便他们能够为参加双重信用网络安全课程的高中学生提供成功。该项目的发现将被传播到全州其他社区大学。该项目由先进的技术教育计划资助，该计划的重点是推动国家经济的高级技术领域的技术人员的教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来支持的。