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Universities Address Dearth of Information Security Grads

Carnegie Mellon University is providing resources for historically black and Hispanic institutions to produce information security experts.


PITTSBURGH - Carnegie Mellon University will team with historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions on a program designed to create a next generation of Internet security experts.

The program is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and includes partners, Howard University, Morgan State University and the University of Texas at El Paso.

Carnegie Mellon is providing educational resources that will enable Ph.D. computer scientists to teach survey-level courses in information security to advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students at the universities.

The four-week program, which began on July 8, is designed to give participants the knowledge and expertise to develop and deliver curricula in information security and will increase the number of Ph.D.- level researchers in information security.

The need for qualified information security personnel and educators is great. A June 1999 Department of Commerce report estimated that the United States will require more than 1.3 million new, highly skilled information technology workers between 1996 and 2006.