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Download full textDiana Maurer; Chelsa Kenney – US Government Accountability Office, 2024
The Department of Defense (DOD) offers education and training to foreign military personnel--known as international military students--at United States (U.S.) DOD sites. After a student killed 3 people at a base in Florida in 2019, questions were raised about personnel safety at DOD sites hosting students for training. The William M. (Mac)…
Descriptors: Military Training, Public Agencies, Federal Government, Foreign Students
Peer reviewedIda L. Oesteraas – Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, 2023
The National Security Agency (NSA) awards Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) designations to institutions that commit to producing cybersecurity professionals who will work in careers that reduce vulnerabilities in our national infrastructure. A review of the curricula in the 327 institutions and their degree programs reveal that only two…
Descriptors: National Security, Federal Government, Public Agencies, Computer Security
Direct linkPollak, Calvin – Written Communication, 2021
Scholars in discourse studies have defined legitimation as the justification (and critique) of powerful institutions and their practices. In moments of crisis, legitimation tactics often shift. This article considers how such shifts are incited by unauthorized information leaks. Leaks, I argue, constitute freshly available texts that reveal…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Access to Information, Public Agencies
Gearon, Liam F.; Parsons, Scott – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2019
Addressing the complex and longstanding relationship between universities and security and intelligence agencies, this article provides a tentative, working conceptual framework for research ethics in a global higher education environment. The article does so in the light of intensified threats of international terrorism which have brought this…
Descriptors: Ethics, Higher Education, Information Security, National Security
Clark, Ulku; Stoker, Geoff; Vetter, Ron – Information Systems Education Journal, 2020
The rising number and cost of cybersecurity attacks justifies continued strong interest in the National Security Agency (NSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) jointly sponsored program for National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD). After briefly outlining the current state of the cybersecurity challenge, this…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Information Security, Public Agencies, National Security
Russell, Eric J.; Russell, Jamie L.; Lindquist, Christian O., Jr.; Broomé, Rodger E.; McCarthy, Kevin P. – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
The purpose of the study was to ascertain how online asynchronous security coursework influenced learner's understandings by analyzing their end-of-course reflective writings. Following a qualitative single case study protocol, the researchers set forth to discover how a semester-long asynchronous online security course influenced students. The…
Descriptors: Reflection, Introductory Courses, Asynchronous Communication, Online Courses
Andrews, Stuart; Duggan, Patrick – Research in Drama Education, 2021
Performing City Resilience is a collaborative research project that investigates interrelations between theories, practices and strategies of city resilience, and those of performance. In this essay, the authors explore ways performance might conceive of and contribute to practices of hazard mitigation strategy to better understand how these might…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), National Security, Emergency Programs, Public Agencies
Gearon, Liam – Transformation in Higher Education, 2017
With intensified threats to global security from international terrorism, universities have become a focus for security concerns and marked as locus of special interest for the monitoring of extremism and counter-terrorism efforts by intelligence agencies worldwide. Drawing on initiatives in the United Kingdom and United States, I re-frame three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Terrorism, School Security, Universities
Ahn, Elise S. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
In 2019, the U.S. Department of Education (DED) began increasing its enforcement of the Higher Education Act, Section 117 statute, which provides instructions for institutional reporting regarding foreign and contracts. The three questions guiding this article include: What were DED's stated premises for the investigations? How was international…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Trend Analysis, International Cooperation, Public Agencies
US House of Representatives, 2024
This document records testimony from a hearing before the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development of the Committee on Education and the Workforce exposing the dangers of the influence of foreign adversaries on college campuses. Opening statements were provided by: (1) Honorable Burgess Owens, Chairman, Subcommittee on Higher…
Descriptors: National Security, Hearings, Public Officials, Administrator Attitudes
Tsado, Lucy – Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, 2019
The human resource skills gap in cybersecurity has created an opportunity for educational institutions interested in cybersecurity education. The current number of schools designated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Security Agency (NSA) as Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE) to train cybersecurity experts are not…
Descriptors: Information Security, National Security, Computer Security, Computer Science Education
Alexandra Hegji; Sylvia L. Bryan; Elayne J. Heisler – Congressional Research Service, 2024
The number and availability of service-contingent loan forgiveness and loan repayment programs have expanded considerably since the establishment of the first major federal loan forgiveness program under the National Defense Education Act of 1958. This report provides information on federally authorized service-contingent student loan forgiveness…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Loan Repayment, Public Agencies, Financial Support
Gearon, Liam – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2018
Against a backdrop of acute global terrorist actions and international counter-terrorist initiatives, and newly marked involvement of UK universities in counter-terrorism with the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, this article reviews a wide multidisciplinary literature to provide a structural analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorism…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Terrorism, Prevention, Universities
Gearon, Liam; Wynne-Davies, Marion – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2018
These are broad and expansive themes and so what we wish to do is to provide a perhaps dramatic case study example of state engagement with the arts for political and security purposes. Our critical case is that of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) engagement with the arts during the Cold War and newly uncovered archival evidence of the CIA…
Descriptors: National Security, Public Agencies, Case Studies, History
Hanlon, Philip J., Ed.; Murthy, Jayathi Y., Ed.; Rovito, Sarah M., Ed. – National Academies Press, 2023
More than 100 U.S. institutions of higher education hosted Confucius Institutes (CIs), Chinese government-funded language and culture centers, on campus during the late 2000s and 2010s. While CIs provided a source of funding and other resources that enabled U.S. colleges and universities to build capacity, offer supplemental programming, and…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Asian Culture, Cultural Education, Chinese
