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Partnerships to Solve Community Problems
Welcome to CABPortal
CABPortal is the official home of the NSF-supported research project: Collaborating Across Boundaries to Engage Undergraduates in STEM Learning (NSF DUE Award #1914869). CABPortal is also a repository for past projects and ongoing research that uses interdisciplinary collaborations and community engaged learning models. Faculty, admins, and community partners can use CABPortal to share information regarding interdisciplinary projects both related to and distinct from CABPortal's Collaborating Across Boundaries to Engage Undergraduates in STEM Learning research project.
Creating an account on CABPortal enables users to submit new projects and review existing projects. CABPortal has recently implemented a built-in point system to encourage user engagement on the site. Points are awarded for submitting new projects, citations, and influence.
Community Collaboration
Coordinates synergistic efforts between educators and their communities.
Interdisciplinary Effort
Fosters collaboration between STEM students and students in other knowledge domains.
New Pedagogy
Supports a novel and multi-disciplinary approach to community-engaged learning.
Framework
Utilizes a collaborative model for devising technology-based solutions to community problems.
CABPortal’s current research project
CAB (Collaborating Across Boundaries to Engage Undergraduates in STEM Learning) Research Project
Collaborating Across Boundaries to Engage Undergraduates in STEM Learning (NSF DUE Award #1914869) was conceived at The College of New Jersey to meet the growing need for STEM-literate professionals across a range of disciplines.
Classes from different disciplines—STEM and non-STEM—are paired to work under the guidance of their instructors with a community partner on a community-identified problem. After experiencing their first partnership, each participating instructor commits to partner with one new colleague and one new community partner on a second community-identified problem.
This continued application of the model offers a way to build a community of practice around collaboration, interdisciplinarity, and community-engaged learning, as well as conduct ongoing research on best practices using this model.
How To Get Involved With CAB
We are looking for educators, computer science students, students in computing-dependent fields, and community partners who are interested in new models for interdisciplinary collaboration and community-engaged learning.
Learn more about us by participating in one of our events.
