Choose Teaching as Your Cybersecurity Career Path
The National Community College Cybersecurity Fellowship Program Gets You There - Applications are Now Open!
Come explore the possibility of becoming a teacher in the community college space. Teachers, please consider hosting one of these fellows in a teaching assignment.
Cybersecurity instructors are needed across the nation, including in Washington community and technical colleges. To address this need, the National Cybersecurity Training and Education Center's (NCyTE's) National Community College Cybersecurity Fellowship Program prepares participants for a career path teaching cybersecurity in a community college setting.
Two options are available:
- Final-Year Students and Recent Graduates: Open to college/university students in their final year of or recently graduated (within a year) from a bachelor’s or master’s degree program in cybersecurity or STEM fields.
- Industry Professionals and Former Military: Open to industry professionals and former military with cybersecurity experience.
The fellowship program includes several workshops designed to:
- Kickstart your journey into the dynamic world of cybersecurity education
- Instill you with fundamental knowledge and skills to be an effective community college cybersecurity educator
- Understand classroom management, learning pedagogy, curriculum development, and cultivation of student workforce skills
- Use cybersecurity fundamentals or advanced technologies to create lesson plans, instructional materials, assessments and rubrics, and lab activities
Some workshop days are virtual; some are in-person at Moraine Valley Community College. Stipends are available to help with the cost of attendance.
Upon successful completion of all workshops, participants will be placed at a community college for a teaching assignment where they will perform 60 hours of service, lead at least one lesson, and provide the required deliverables as per a student teaching assignment agreement.
Fellows will be looking for placement for their teaching assignment in summer and fall 2025. If you are a cybersecurity instructor willing to host a fellow at your community or technical college, please fill out the form on either information page (links below).
For more information, application requirements, and submission details, please visit the following NCyTE webpages:
Final-Year Students and Recent Graduates:
https://www.ncyte.net/students/student-resources/fellowship-program
Industry Professionals and Former Military:
https://www.ncyte.net/industry/industry-resources/faculty-fellowship-program
