Friday, June 08, 2007

2006 FBI Director's Community Leadership Award recognizes Capella student's contributions to cyber security

A master's degree student studying education with an emphasis on enrollment management at capella university, Tammy Alexander is the director for information assurance and cyber security training at Fountainhead College of Technology in Knoxville, Tenn. She is also the recipient of the 2006 FBI Director's Community Leadership Award.

The award publicly recognizes individuals or organizations efforts to make a difference in their communities through working to deter violence and drugs and was presented to Alexander for her contributions to cyber security, the law enforcement community and Infragard - a FBI program that aims to improve and extend information sharing between private industry and the government, particularly the FBI, when it comes to critical national infrastructures.

"Critical infrastructures are those physical and cyber-based systems essential to the minimum operations of the economy and government. These systems are so vital, that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the defense or economic security of the United States." - President William J. Clinton, 1998

About Capella University
Founded in 1993, Capella University is an accredited* online university that offers graduate degree programs in business, information technology, education, human services, and psychology, and bachelor’s degree programs in business and information technology. Within those areas, Capella currently offers 82 graduate and undergraduate specializations and 16 certificate programs. The online university currently serves more than 17,900 students from all 50 states and 56 countries. It is committed to providing high-caliber academic excellence and pursuing balanced business growth. Capella University is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Capella Education Company, headquartered in Minneapolis. For more information, please visit capella.edu or call 1-888-CAPELLA (227-3552).


* Capella University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), ncahlc.org.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This blog post was based on information provided by Blogitive. For more information, please visit Blogitive.com

Labels:

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home


Privacy Policy