Sioux City Journal, IA
12-05-06
WIT to offer cyber crime degree
Experts in the field of computer crime investigation will meet in Sioux City this
week to develop a cyber crime investigations degree at Western Iowa Tech
Community College.
The experts will spend today and Wednesday at the Clarion Hotel participating in
session to define the competencies and skills in which students will be trained
and which meet the needs of organizations attempting to deal with computer
crime.
The scope of the program will include forensics investigation, computer and
network security, behavioral sciences, business law and ethics. The two-year
associate degree program is set to launch at WIT in the fall of 2007.
The content experts are Jeff Sypersma, Northwest Area Education Agency,
Sioux City; Deb Hale, Long Lines, Sergeant Bluff; Scott Lanagan, Woodbury
County Law Enforcement Center, Sioux City; Jason Allen, Sioux City Police
Department -- Computer Crimes; Gary Sparks, Metropolitan Community College,
Omaha; Mark Hinds, King Reinsch Prosser & Company, Sioux City; Doug
Jacobson, Iowa State University, Ames.