Review Assessment Report

Part 1: Contact & Program Identification

Report Year and Contact Information
Academic Year	Modified By	Date Modified
2021-2022	nsaline@cnm.edu	2022-10-20T19:59:44.582Z

School	Name of Program	Courses
BIT	Computer Information AAS Degree: Cyber Security	BCIS 1110,BUSA 1110,BUSA 1130,CIS 1250,CIS 1410,CIS 1415,CIS 1610,CIS 1680,CIS 1858,CIS 2670,CIS 2853,CIS 2857,CIS 2860,CIS 2999,COMM 2120,ENGL 1210

Part 2: Program Summary

Provide a high level review of the program to include highlights, successes, challenges, significant changes, and significant resources needed to support the program
Overall our cyber program is doing well. We have seen any increase in the number of declared majors from 202 last year to 232 this year. One of the most difficult thing for many cyber programs is the lab environment. These environments need to be flexible and easy to use for students and faculty. Students not only need to be able to access the lab environment from campus but also from their homes as well. Last year this was a challenge with both the environment itself and the number of labs that we had to our disposal. This year we have come a long way and this is quickly becoming one of the strengths of the program.

Provide a high level review of the program to include highlights, successes, challenges, significant changes, and significant resources needed to support the program

Overall our cyber program is doing well. We have seen any increase in the number of declared majors from 202 last year to 232 this year. One of the most difficult thing for many cyber programs is the lab environment. These environments need to be flexible and easy to use for students and faculty. Students not only need to be able to access the lab environment from campus but also from their homes as well. Last year this was a challenge with both the environment itself and the number of labs that we had to our disposal. This year we have come a long way and this is quickly becoming one of the strengths of the program.

Part 3: Data Review

	2019-2020	2020-2021	2021-2022
Annual number of graduate awards is greater than 10	6	24	9
Number of declared majors	191	202	232
Average Class Size	21.7	21.4	19.6
Annual Average Class withdrawal rate is 30% or below (SAGE 35%)	14%	11%	11%
Annual C-Pass rate for coursework is 60% or above	74%	71%	70%
Average class fill rate at 60% or above capacity within a term or over a year	75%	77%	71%
Graduate Transfer to 4-year Schools	n/a	n/a	n/a
Full-time Faculty Coverage by Section	56%	63%	22%

Summarize how your program met or did not meet the target measures based on the data above
Our average class fill rate for the last three years has exceeded 60% at, 75% (2019-2020), 77% (2020-2021 and 71% (2021-2022)). Our annual retention rate for the last three years has equaled or exceeded 70% for all three years. Our annual C-pass rate for the last three years has exceeded 65% at 74% (2019-2020), 71% (2020-2021), 70% (2021-2020). In academic year 2019-2020 we had 6 graduates, for 2020-2021 it jumped to 24. Then in academic year 2021-2022 we had 9 graduates which is slightly below the 10.

Summarize how your program met or did not meet the target measures based on the data above

Our average class fill rate for the last three years has exceeded 60% at, 75% (2019-2020), 77% (2020-2021 and 71% (2021-2022)). Our annual retention rate for the last three years has equaled or exceeded 70% for all three years. Our annual C-pass rate for the last three years has exceeded 65% at 74% (2019-2020), 71% (2020-2021), 70% (2021-2020). In academic year 2019-2020 we had 6 graduates, for 2020-2021 it jumped to 24. Then in academic year 2021-2022 we had 9 graduates which is slightly below the 10.

Part 4: Program Learning Outcome Analysis

Learning Outcome	Population or Course(s) Assessed	Description	Summary of Assessment Results
1. Create a threat model for a given scenario, identifying assets, threats, and mitigations	CIS 2857	Paper	Overall students have done very well this assignment with the following score: Spring 92% Fall 94%
2. Apply principles of secure system design to host and network security scenarios	CIS 2853, CIS 2999.	Paper	Overall students have done very well these assignments with the following score: Spring 88% Fall 91%
3. Use derived requirements such as authentication and access control to secure systems and networks	CIS 2853	Homework Assignments Paper	This outcome in measured in the following assignments: Create and deploy ACLs............................................................................................98% Create and deploy ip tables/Firewall.....................................................................87% Create and configure an intrusion detection system (IDS)................................85% Demonstrate Operating system hardening both for Linux and Microsoft....95% This gives us a total average score of 91% Since students are doing so well with these concepts, we feel it would be beneficial for us to add single sign on to the course materials.
4. Perform forensic analysis of systems and create a report of results	CIS 2860.	Homework Assignments	Students score between 98% - 81%. Students are meeting our target range and we feel that students are getting the materials and assignments are about right.

Interpretation of Assessment findings
Since last year we have add a large amount of materials to our program. We add these materials two better prepare students for the next level courses and in response for our advisory committee. Students have responded well to these additions and we are seeing an improvement in there understanding these concepts.

Part 5: Additional Action Plan in Support of Student Learning (If Appropriate)

Upcoming Year	Changes Planned for the upcoming year	Data Motivating this change
2021-2022	We are concerned to see that graduation rates went down from 24 last year to 9 this year. We are reviewing our program to see where the bottle neck is and what we can do to resolve it.	We are concerned to see that graduation rates went down from 24 last year to 9 this year.
2021-2022
2021-2022

Please select all of the following that characterize the types of changes described in the above action plan

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