Evaluating CAE Cybersecurity Career Outcomes

January 16, 2026 | Virtual
9 - 10 am Pacific Time

Join us at NCyTE’s January Monthly Meeting where Dr. Tobi West will share her research into how well Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (CAE-C) programs prepare students for cybersecurity careers. 

The session will highlight findings from a ten-month study involving 281 students from 36 colleges and universities across the U.S. The research examined the types of cybersecurity jobs CAE alumni secured after graduation and assessed how closely those positions align with the 52 cybersecurity work roles defined in the recently updated NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NIST). 

We hope you’ll join us for this informative session.

Presenter

Dr. Tobi West

Professor Tobi West is a tenured full-time faculty member of Cybersecurity and Computer Information Systems at Coastline College in Southern California. She is the director of Coastline’s National Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cyber Defense education and serves on multiple national committees supporting cybersecurity workforce development. Ms. West assisted with the startup of the California Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Program at Coastline College, which began in 2017.

The National Cybersecurity Training & Education (NCyTE) Center is an advanced technological education National Science Foundation grant award #2054724.