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The global cybersecurity crisis has challenged academic institutions to build and grow cybersecurity programs to help produce a skilled and knowledgeable cyber workforce. The current state of cybersecurity education is faced with three intersectional challenges: 1) a dire shortage of faculty and teachers, 2) a rapidly evolving field, and 3) limited access to quality curricular materials. While addressing the shortage of faculty requires a long-term solution, it has been shown that high-quality curricula not only helps institutions build programs, but also improve student learning outcomes. Increasing access to better curricula is a relatively inexpensive, yet impactful intervention. To help meet these challenges, the National Security Agency funded the CLARK Cybersecurity Curriculum Library (www. clark.center). CLARK hosts over 700 quality-assured learning objects from over 70 institutions organized as collections, including the NSA National Cybersecurity Curriculum Program (NCCP) and the National Science Foundation C5 (c5colleges.org) collections. This fastpitch will introduce the highlights of CLARK and provide examples of high-quality cyberlearning objects that can be immediately deployed in the classroom.

Sidd Kaza, Towson University, and Mark Loepker, National Cryptologic Museum
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