Fresno State teams up with other CSUs to increase number of cybersecurity professionals

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno State is piloting a programme successful concern with 2 different California State Universities to summation skilled cybersecurity professionals.

Fresno State students are learning astir the latest exertion erstwhile it comes to cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

The assemblage is hoping to code a captious shortage of cybersecurity professionals passim the authorities and the nation.

Fresno State is doing this by collaborating with California State Universities San Bernardino and San Jose.

The extremity is to make a exertion and vocation acquisition pipeline and pathway from simple schoolhouse to college.

"I deliberation it's going to marque a immense antithetic for each of our kids to bring them up into the 21st period skills and opportunities," Fresno State Criminology Professor Keith Clement, Ph. D., said.

Clement calls Central California a exertion godforsaken compared to Los Angeles and Silicon Valley.

He says it's important that students are processing the skills indispensable present successful the Central Valley to marque them competitive.

"Many of our section kids successful our section schools request entree to high-paying, high-demand, hard-to-fill benignant of positions," Clement said.

The 3 universities are tasked with creating a aviator programme with goals and metrics processing strategies and tactics to physique palmy determination alliances and multi-stakeholder partnerships.

The extremity end is to leverage the CSU strategy to beryllium a operator for processing the cyber workforce.

"By the extremity of the program, my anticipation is truly to spot a vocation pipeline pathway successful cyber information that starts from a precise young age, goes each the mode done precocious postgraduate defence programs and doctoral grade programs successful this area," Clement said.

Clement thinks by connecting well-educated students straight to the workforce, it volition assistance capable critically needed roles successful the Valley, the authorities and crossed the country.

"I deliberation that blending the acquisition and the workforce improvement unneurotic is critical," Clement said.

The programme is funded done June 2026.

Fresno State and San Jose State each received $1 cardinal portion the pb campus, San Bernardino, received $2 million.

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