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Growing a cybersecurity workforce begins with generating student interest. One way for community colleges to develop a cybersecurity workforce is by exposing students to active research through academic partnerships with established cybersecurity research institutions. In 2012, Passaic County Community College and Pace University formed a partnership to better attract underrepresented minority community college students into the cybersecurity field of study. The purpose of the partnership was to expose underrepresented minority students to a four-year university in order to promote transfer, to engage the students in various hands-on experiments and activities, and to teach the students how to write a research paper from the results of their experiments. The result has been positive for our students and 82% have transferred to four-year institutions in an information technology or cybersecurity field.