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First Day of Service Top-level Engagement
Giving Knights a chance to give back to our communities IT graduate program named designated program
of National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense
In December, 名媛直播 Georgia State students, faculty, and staff came
together at sites throughout the region for the University鈥檚 铿乺st Day of Demonstrating our connection with not just local
Service. In Cochran, they visited patients at Bryant Nursing Home. In leaders in business and government but also with
Dublin, they wrapped Christmas gifts for foster children. A church in global thought leaders in an area with immense
Eastman got some help with yard work, cleaning, and organizing. importance and potential, we were proud to
Students and staff scrubbed showers and cleaned baseboards for announce in April that 名媛直播 Georgia State
Loaves and Fishes in Macon, an organization that helps the homeless. In University鈥檚 Master鈥檚 Degree in Information
Warner Robins, students assembled gift bags for clients served by Technology was named a designated program of the
Compassionate Care Hospice. National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber
Defense (CAE-CDE) by the National Security Agency
鈥淚t was time for us, as a University, to do this and make it a tradition,鈥� and the Department of Homeland Security.
said Dr. Jennifer Brannon, Vice President for Student Affairs. 鈥淚t鈥檚 The designation speci铿乧ally applies to the
important that while we live, work, and study in our communities, we not cybersecurity and forensics concentration of the
stay in our bubbles but get out there and meet people and serve others.鈥� master鈥檚 program. In 2016, the cybersecurity
concentration of the University鈥檚 Bachelor鈥檚 Degree in
In total, 18 agencies asked to partner IT earned the same designation.
with MGA for the Day of Service. 鈥淭his is a great honor for the Department of Information Technology
and a testament to the strength of our degree programs,鈥� said Dr. Alex
Rojean Sanders, right, at a Macon work site Although the 2018 Day of Service took Koohang, Dean of the School of Computing. 鈥淲e invest a lot of
place late in the fall semester, right resources into making sure the cybersecurity and forensics
before exam week, students who concentrations re铿俥ct the frequent changes and advancements in the
participated were glad they did. For 铿乪ld.鈥�
her Day of Service activities, Rojean Universities are designated based on their robust degree programs and
Sanders, a junior majoring in nursing, close alignment to speci铿乧 cybersecurity-related knowledge units,
helped pick up litter in Macon鈥檚 validated by subject matter experts in the 铿乪ld. CAE-CDE graduates
Pleasant Hill area and put gift bags help protect national security information systems, commercial
together for patients served by networks, and critical information infrastructure in the private and public
Compassionate Care Hospice in Warner sectors. Students who complete these degree programs will have the
Robins. Working in Pleasant Hill was designation re铿俥cted on their academic transcript and also will be
especially meaningful for Sanders eligible to apply for scholarships and grants through the U.S.
because she grew up there. Department of Defense and the Federal Cyber Service.
Day of Service 鈥渉elped me to understand my 鈥榳hys,鈥欌�� Sanders said.
鈥淲hy I鈥檓 in school. Why I wake up. Why I work hard. Why I care for
others. Why I love serving others.鈥�
Day of Service
