-: My name is Bruce deGrazia
and I am the Program Chair
for the Cybersecurity Management and Policy Program
in the Graduate School at UMUC.
What we try to do in the Management and Policy Program
is to take students who are interested
in going into the management side of cybersecurity.
There are plenty of opportunities for people
to do the technical stuff, but at some point
in your career you're gonna wanna move up from that.
You're not gonna wanna spend
your entire career pulling cables.
And so those people that wanna make that transition,
that's our target audience.
I spend a lot of time dealing with student issues.
Of course I have to make certain that since UMUC
has a policy of students first then
that's the first thing that I address every morning.
What students have questions about the courses?
What students have questions about the professors?
I do a lot of work on scheduling.
We have a number of courses in hybrid-type courses
that we teach face-to-face as well as online.
I have to make sure that those courses,
when they're filled we have a place for the students
to go and times for them to teach and find professors.
There are about 40 or so, maybe more,
professors in the program.
And I try to make sure that every professor
who wants to teach gets an opportunity
to teach at least a couple of times a year.
So those are the types of issues I handle on a daily basis.
And I do the usual committees
that every university person does.
I have particular interest in the Policy Committee.
I'm on the Academic Advisory Board.
And I am also on the Faculty Success Committee.