HAMBURG, N.Y. -- As of this fall, the computer security option under Hilbert College’s economic crime investigation (ECI) program will be designated computer security and information assurance. Students entering the program in Fall 2009 and later will receive their bachelor’s degree under the new program name. This change was the result of input from faculty, the ECI department advisory board and graduates, all of whom saw a need to change the program description to more accurately reflect the course of study.
Also, Hilbert’s academic area has undergone a major structural change that has affected the program. Both the accounting-ECI track and the newly designated computer security and information assurance programs will fall under the Hilbert Professional Studies Division, which is being chaired by Wendy Edson.
These latest changes follow another made last fall when ECI’s financial investigations option was revised to make it a track under the accounting degree program, a decision based on a number of factors that ECI graduates need to have a strong accounting foundation. Students in the accounting degree program with the ECI track still take all anti-fraud specialty courses that students took under the previous ECI program.
Hilbert began offering a bachelor’s degree in ECI in 1999. ECI students have taken courses in three disciplines, accounting, criminal justice and computer security, and followed a financial investigations or computer security concentration. Over the past 10 years, updates have been made to the program’s curriculum as a result of changes in technology, laws and regulations.