Award Abstract # 1241585
Establishing the Information Assurance Student Pipeline Through Community College Outreach

NSF Org: DGE
Division Of Graduate Education
Recipient: PACE UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date: August 19, 2012
Latest Amendment Date: August 19, 2012
Award Number: 1241585
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Victor Piotrowski
vpiotrow@nsf.gov
 (703)292-5141
DGE
 Division Of Graduate Education
EDU
 Directorate for STEM Education
Start Date: October 1, 2012
End Date: September 30, 2017 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $294,477.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $294,477.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2012 = $294,477.00
History of Investigator:
  • Li-Chiou Chen (Principal Investigator)
  • Charles Tappert (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Xiangdong Li (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Darren Hayes (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Pace University New York Campus
1 PACE PLZ
NEW YORK
NY  US  10038-1502
(212)346-1200
Sponsor Congressional District: 10
Primary Place of Performance: Pace University
1 Pace Plaza
New York
NY  US  10038-1502
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
10
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): Y738A5L1B3V1
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): CYBERCORPS: SCHLAR FOR SER
Primary Program Source: 04001213DB NSF Education & Human Resource
Program Reference Code(s): 7254, 9178, SMET
Program Element Code(s): 166800
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.076

ABSTRACT

This project aims at increasing the number of undergraduate students studying information assurance and pursuing careers in the field. The project is led by Pace University and collaborates with four partner colleges: State University of New York - Rockland Community College, State University of New York - Westchester Community College, City University of New York - New York City College of Technology, and City University of New York - Borough of Manhattan Community College, of which the latter two are minority serving institutions.

A set of activities designed for both faculty and students fosters collaboration among the participating institutions, attracts students to study information assurance, and provides faculty with development opportunities in the information assurance area. These activities include student information assurance workshops, collaborative student/faculty research teams, a community college/university faculty collaborative working group and faculty development workshops.

The project is expanding the information assurance student pipeline at Pace University through outreach to community colleges. In addition, this partnership is establishing, implementing and evaluating the infrastructure needed for such pathways, and thus is providing a reference model which can be adopted by other schools. The overall impact of the project is to produce more and better prepared information assurance professionals.

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Gonzalo E. Perez, John V. Monaco, Charles C. Tappert, and Li-Chiou Chen "Cybersecurity Outreach for Underrepresented Minority Students" he National Cybersecurity Institute Journal , v.2 , 2015
Jenny Li, Li-Chiou Chen, John V. Monaco, Pranjal Singh and Charles C. Tappert "A comparison of classifiers and features for authorship authentication of social networking messages" Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience , 2016
J. Navarro-Machuca and L.-C. Chen, "Embedding Model-Based Security Policies in Software Development" the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud , 2016
L. Jain, J.V. Monaco, M.J. Caokley, and C.C. Tappert "Passcode Keystroke Biometric Performance on Smartphone Touchscreens is Superior to that on Hardware Keyboards." Int. J. Research in Computer Apps. & Info. , v.2 , 2014 , p.29
Longbin Chen, Li-Chiou Chen, Nader Nassar and Meikang Qiu "An Analysis of Server-side Design for Seed-based Mobile Authentication" The Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing , 2016

PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT

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This project established the Pace Cybersecurity Academic Partnership (PCAP). The goal of PCAP is to create a pipeline of students who will study cybersecurity and apply for cybersecurity programs at Pace University (Pace). The project also aimed at establishing a reference model for building such pipeline between 2-year community colleges and 4-year universities.

PCAP (https://sites.google.com/site/pcapproject/) supported a set of academic activities for both students and faculty from Pace and its partner colleges. These activities aimed at fostering collaboration among the participating institutions, attracting students to study cybersecurity, and providing faculty with development opportunities in student mentoring and curriculum development. The activities included a student mentoring program focusing on female students, collaborative research teams between Pace and partner colleges, cybersecurity research seminar series, a cybersecurity virtual lab environment for training and competitions, cybersecurity student workshops and a collaborative working group among faculty from seven partner colleges.

Because of the academic activities conducted through this partnership, Pace CyberCorps could extend its program to community colleges. Among nineteen Pace CyberCorps scholars, seven of them were accepted directly to Pace after completing their Associates’ degrees from a community college and one of them is currently enrolling in Westchester Community College, supported by a sub-award from Pace’s CyberCorps program.

The intellectual merits are from the reference model that we created in sustaining PCAP and the pipeline established between community colleges and Pace’s cybersecurity programs. The collaborative relationship and the student pipeline created from the academic activities still sustain after the project came to an end because of the academic infrastructure that was created to support this model. The project had also generated a broader impact that benefited community college students, many of whom were minority students and underrepresented groups in cybersecurity. These students would in turn have an impact on both the public and private sectors as cybersecurity professionals.


Last Modified: 12/15/2017
Modified by: Li-Chiou Chen

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