Goseva-Popstojanova, K., & Mackin Freeman, D., & Hensel, R. A. (2024, June), Board 396: Supporting Students' Success in the Cybersecurity Field: Accomplishments and Lessons Learned by the ACCESS project  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2--46982

\bibitem{asee_peer_46982}
  Goseva-Popstojanova, K., \& Mackin Freeman, D., \& Hensel, R. A. (2024, June), \emph{Board 396: Supporting Students' Success in the Cybersecurity Field: Accomplishments and Lessons Learned by the ACCESS project}
  Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Portland, Oregon.
  10.18260/1-2--46982

Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Daniel Mackin Freeman, and Robin A.M. Hensel.  "Board 396: Supporting Students' Success in the Cybersecurity Field: Accomplishments and Lessons Learned by the ACCESS project".  2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 2024, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/46982 Internet.  22 Feb, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_46982}
  Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Daniel Mackin Freeman, and Robin A.M. Hensel.
  "Board 396: Supporting Students' Success in the Cybersecurity Field: Accomplishments and Lessons Learned by the ACCESS project".
  \emph{2024 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 2024, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/46982 Internet.  22 Feb, 2025

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AB  - The NSF S-STEM funded project "Attracting and Cultivating Cybersecurity Experts and Scholars through Scholarships" (ACCESS) has a goal to increase the number of high-achieving undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need who complete a degree in the cybersecurity field. This goal contributes towards addressing the huge unmet need for cybersecurity experts. This paper presents the activities and the accomplishments of the ACCESS project thus far. The ACCESS project has successfully awarded scholarships to four cohorts of students consisting of a total of 50 unique students and has achieved its objective to increase the annual enrollment in the B.S. and Area of Emphasis (AoE) in Cybersecurity at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. Specifically, the enrollment has more than doubled since the beginning of the project. Over four years, the ACCESS project developed and offered numerous co-curricular activities and student support services and has strengthened its partnerships with many cybersecurity employers from the public and private sectors. Students’ feedback about the ACCESS project, which was provided using surveys and focus groups discussions conducted by the external evaluation team, was overwhelmingly positive and highlighted significant benefits to students’ academic success and their future professional careers. This paper also presents the lessons learned that were synthesized using the observations made by the project team and evaluation team, and the feedback provided by the students. These lessons learned can be institutionalized at West Virginia University and elsewhere in higher education to aid students' success in their education and future professional careers in the cybersecurity field.
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