New and Early-Career Faculty Members

⬅ CoP-CD

CAE Community of Practice Cyber Defense

New and Early-Career Faculty Members

Initiative Co-Chairs

Gretchen Bliss - University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS)
Paige Flores - California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB)

Initiative Committee Members

Blair Taylor, Towson University
Terri Johnson Akse, University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS)
Pam Schmelz, Ivy Tech Community College
Rene Tejon, Nova Southeastern University
Anthony Pinto, University of West Florida
Litany Lineberry, Hinds Community College
Luis Alberto Tatis Morales, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico – San Juan
Deveeshree Nayak, University of Washington
Thomas Hill, Montreat College
Manghui (Michael) Tu, Purdue University Northwest
Satchit Hegde, Touro University
Michael Burt

CAE-CD New and Early-Career Faculty Members

The aim of this CAE-CD initiative is to engage new and early-career faculty members, bringing their voices to the CAE Community. It will provide monthly workshops for new and early career faculty members to learn more about CAE Community initiatives related to hands-on learning to increase the quality of classroom instruction. This will be accomplished by conducting outreach to CAE POCs to solicit involvement from their new and young faculty (via CAE Community newsletter and PMO notifications), listening to the needs of those faculty members, and developing monthly workshops to support their exploration and application of tools and resources to strengthen the cybersecurity offerings at CAE institutions.

Upcoming Workshops:

November 14, 2025 12PM-2PM EST

Title: AI Tools to Make Learning Fun

Presenters: [Coming soon!]

December 12, 2025 12PM-2PM EST

Title: Teaching Networking with Wireshark + Packet Tracer

Presenters: [Coming soon!]

Workshops Registration:

All sessions will be via Zoom. Only those using their .edu email to register and are from a current CAE (CD, CO, and/or R) or part of the CAE Program Development or Application Assistance will be considered. Do not use Gmail! Sessions will be recorded and individually posted on the CAE Community YouTube channel.

All sessions meet 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern

Updated: October 24, 2025

May 16, 2025 - Designation and Redesignation Process

Presenters:

Emma Graves - NCyTE

Michael Burt

Watch the Recording

April 25, 2025 - Overview of the CAE Knowledge Units (KUs) CD & CO

Presenters: Yair Levy, Seth Hamman, Blair Taylor, and Sidd Kaza

Description: Learn about the various sets of CAE Knowledge Units (KUs) that we use to align our curriculum for Program Validation (CD, CO, & CyberAI) and explanation about the CAE designations (CD & CO).

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March 21, 2025 - Linux: Episode 2

Anthony Pinto – University of West Florida

Litany Lineberry – Hinds Community College

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February 21, 2025

We offered 10-minute slots to faculty or tool creators who would like to showcase a lesson, tool, or teaching methodology they use in the classroom. The format was very casual, with the goal of providing an opportunity to connect and share helpful resources and ideas with one another.

This workshop was moderated by:

- Paige Flores – Towson University
- Gretchen Bliss – University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS)

Workshop Schedule and Recording Links:

- Rene Tejon "Using Certify and Emates"
- Elizabeth Rasnick "Sherlock Holmes, Social Engineer"
- Jon Craton "LLM Prompt Injection"
- Mary Wallingsford "Student Club Activities"
- Litany Lineberry "TryHackMe and AWS for Teaching Cyber for an Online Course"
- Alexander Hillock "XPCyber"
- James Ashley "Try Cyber"
- Daniel Olson "UCCS Presentation"

January 17, 2025 - Meet the CAE-CD CoP New and Early Career Faculty Group

Since the NCyTE monthly meeting is scheduled at the same time and it's the start of the semester, we wanted to use this opportunity to connect with new and early-career faculty outside of a traditional workshop format. Our goal is to showcase the materials we have on YouTube from the past two semesters and encourage more people to get involved in planning and running workshops. This session will be shorter than our typical workshops.

Paige Flores – Towson University

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December 20, 2024 - Risk Management and Business Continuity

Pam Schmelz – Ivy Tech Community College

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November 22, 2024 - Student Clubs and Activities

Terri Johnson Akse – University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS)

Litany Lineberry – Hinds Community College

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October 25, 2024 - Through the Enemies Eyes: Adversarial Thinking in the Classroom

Deveeshree Nayak – University of Washington

Paige Flores – Towson University