Overview

The Department of Political Science at The University of Akron (UA) launched Ohio’s first interdisciplinary Center for Intelligence and Security Studies (CISS) in 2021. With a renowned advisory board made up of 15 career intelligence experts throughout the country, the CISS is a resource for preparing UA students to be the foremost national security professionals of tomorrow. The CISS will bring together students from a wide variety of disciplines with faculty and national security practitioners and experts for training, research and education in the areas of national security, cybersecurity, community security and law enforcement, as well as intelligence analysis and operations. CISS is also a place for faculty and students to meet and coordinate interdisciplinary research efforts. UA faculty come from the fields of political science, criminal justice studies, computer science and computer information systems, mathematics and communication. The CISS is a forum for these and other UA faculty to give talks on real-world security issues, such as biosecurity, cyber-conflict, disinformation, policing, espionage, human trafficking, domestic terrorism, climate change and conflicts around the world.