Examining the Impact of Implementing Cyber Security Articulation Agreements Between Public and Private Higher Educational Institutions in 9-12 High Schools
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Over the past decade, the term cyber security has become quite the buzzword in the publicand private sectors in the United States and abroad. Further, there has been explosive growth and interest in cybersecurity majors at colleges and universities globally. In addition to added growth in higher education, many highschool students (grades 9-12) are now seeking out programs that offer science, engineering, technology,mathematics (STEM) and cyber security-based curriculum at the high school level. Educating young men and womenin cyber security curriculum prior to college will address the work sector shortage of STEM based professionals forboth males and females that exists today. It is imperative that both 9-12 high schools and higher educationalinstitutions take notice to the growing trends in cyber security curriculum today. This work in progress paper willoutline proven best practices that public and private 9-12 high schools can use to establish relationships with collegesand universities to secure valuable cyber security and STEM education articulation agreements. Over the past fouryears, a private high school in the state of Nebraska (lead by the author of this paper) has utilized several strategiesto formulate a collaborative relationship and articulation agreement with the University of Nebraska-Omaha to offercollege credits to grades 9-12 for those that take a dual-enrollment course entitled Cyber Security. The outcomes ofthis research will focus on strategies to: collaborative course syllabus development with host universities, coursecredit and semester hour allocations, training students, professional development for cyber security faculty,integrating field trips to data centers, bringing in professional cyber security speakers from the private sector andgovernment agencies, establishing networking and internship opportunities, offering hands-on and virtual computernetworking labs, and much more.. This work in progress will present data results, graduation records, course majors,job placement results, internship results, and much more from those students who have taken Cyber Security overthe 48 months.