Our Story
The TAPDINTO-STEM Alliance was founded to empower postsecondary students with disabilities (SWD) in STEM fields.
Rooted in a commitment to dismantling barriers, the alliance’s aim is to improve academic practices and address bias and discrimination to enhance inclusion, increase persistence, and advance success of SWD. With concurrent objectives targeting degree completion, workforce entry, and collaboration across stakeholders, TAPDINTO-STEM envisions a future where every student, regardless of ability, finds a welcoming and supportive path to success.
Coast-to-Coast and Beyond
TAPDINTO-STEM is a national collaborative effort divided into 6 regional hubs involving 37 colleges and universities in 19 states,
Washington D.C., and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Collective Impact
Through implementation of the NSF INCLUDES’s Collaborative Infrastructure model, TAPDINTO-STEM Alliance employs Collective Impact ensuring a common agenda, shared measurements, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and support of a dedicated project backbone.
Our Goals Can Be Attained
Thurston, L.P., Shuman, C., Middendorf, B. J., & Johnson, C. (2017). Postsecondary STEM Education for Students with Disabilities:
Lessons Learned from a Decade of NSF Funding. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 30(1), 49-60.
The TAPDINTO-STEM Alliance is primarily funded by NSF’s Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative, a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion, and broadening participation in STEM. The Alliance is jointly funded by the NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program.
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