Report on the implementation of NSF-SFS scholarship grant #0210644 and NSF-SFS capacity grant # 0210147 from 2002-2004 at Morehouse College

• Authors: William M. Rivera
• Venue: Proceedings of the 1st annual conference on Information security curriculum development
• Year: 2004

Federal money was used to fund 15 students (including 8 students or 30% of the May 2004 Computer Science graduating class: 13 U.S. and 2 International) and train 50 students to develop information security skills in the context of an Operating Systems course at Morehouse College, the all male top ranked member of the group of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) from July 2002 to June 2004. The undergraduate teaching assistants were responsible for developing project descriptions, showing competency with a designated core Operating System program and with a corresponding Information Security program, leading the programming laboratories, grading programs, submitting grade sheets, writing teaching philosophies and teaching self evaluations and (in Spring 2004) giving oral and/or poster presentations at the Morehouse Mapp Symposium. Rivera- the Principal Investigator (Pl)-was responsible for teaching the lecture part of the course (partly in support of the laboratory section), selecting and developing the fundamental material in Operating Systems and Information Security, grant administration: (student selection, invited speaker selection and support, payroll procedures, employee paycheck retrieval and distribution, budgeting and accounting, advising scholarship students on how to complete their requirements and monitoring their progress in other Information Security courses, defending his PI-ship of the grant against the efforts of supervisors to appropriate that position for themselves), transportation of students to talks off campus, attending consortium meetings, developing a program web site, interacting productively with other co PIs, filing periodic reports with PIs at the major institution. The PI also provided students with guidance in all of their duties and productions.