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Persons with disabilities are one of the most significantly underrepresented groups in STEM education and employment, comprising a disproportionately smaller percentage of STEM degrees and jobs compared to their percentages in the U.S. population [1]. TAPDINTO-STEM employs a collective impact approach with dozens of partnering institutions to increase the number of students with disabilities (SWDs) who complete associate, baccalaureate and graduate STEM degrees and enter the STEM workforce. 

Description of the development and use of a dynamic portal for supporting an alliance of colleges and universities focused on supporting students with disabilities and transitioning to careers in science and technology. Called SOAR, the portal is designed to support separate institutes achieve collective impact through shared measures. Significant aspects of SOAR are the user-driven design with three different communication roles, dynamic generation of survey forms, the ability to schedule surveys, collecting data through the surveys, and data presentation through dynamic chart generation. SOAR utilizes and advances the best practices of Universal Access and is central to the alliance’s ability to empower individuals with disabilities to live their best lives. One of the most interesting features is the ability for different institutes to customize their forms and collect campus-relevant data that can be changed and the application of machine learning to produce the dynamic chart generation. SOAR allows the alliance to meet individual campus needs and the reporting and evaluation needs of the National Science Foundation.