Because of ISU’s designation as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, the Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship program is available to ISU students.
ISU students who are not currently employed by DoD may apply for scholarships through the IASP Recruitment Program. Under this program, DoD funds scholarships in eligible Information Assurance disciplines for rising juniors or seniors in college, as well as individuals who are accepted into, or currently enrolled in a master’s, PhD, or graduate certificate program.
Students selected for the IASP recruitment program are awarded funding for:
- tuition
- required books
- fees
- labs
- equipment
- stipend to cover room and board ($14,000 for undergraduates; $19,000 for graduates)
- Paid internships at select Department of Defense organizations
If you will be a junior, senior, or graduate student in the 2012-2013 academic year, pursuing an information assurance-related major or sequence and are interested in this opportunity please contact Dr. Doug Twitchell as soon as possible. The deadline for scholarship materials is February 10, 2012.
Doug Twitchell
Campus Box 5150
Normal, IL 61790
dtwitch@ilstu.edu
309-438-7756
For more information, please see the IASP website at: http://cio-nii.defense.gov/sites/iasp2/pro_recruit.html
To be eligible for this scholarship, you must meet the following requirements:
- 18 years of age or older and a U.S. citizen at time of application.
- Pursuing a course of study and/or have a declared major with an IA concentration in one of the scientific, technical or managerial disciplines related to computer and network security.
- For undergraduate applicants, must have completed at least the first two years of an undergraduate degree program by August of the calendar year in which scholarship funding will commence and be eligible to begin either the third or fourth year of the degree. GPA must be at least a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale (or an analogous rank based on a comparable scale).
- For graduate applicants, must be eligible to begin the first or second year of a master’s degree program; pursue doctoral studies; or complete a graduate IA certificate program. GPA must be at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale (or an analogous rank based on a comparable scale).
- Able to obtain a security clearance.
