ADVANCE PLAN IHE: Center for Research, Excellence and Diversity in Team Science (CREDITS)

国际基础结构、水利和环境工程学院资助轨道旨在通过对特定方案或倡议进行网络调整，为STEM教职员工扩大已被证明成功的性别平等倡议的应用。预计仔细评估将扩大各机构和各类机构对这类举措的了解。团队科学研究、卓越和多样性中心(Credits)是一个综合性的研究和培训计划，旨在提高和加强加州的团队科学能力、有效性和卓越。在过去的二十年里，基于团队科学的研究在科学发现中变得越来越重要。当不同的观点和不同的(因此往往是更广泛的)研究问题被告知时，科学研究可以得到加强。众所周知，团队中的多样性对创造力、创新和生产力有积极的影响。科学和科学团队的多样性有助于确保科学问题和研究与社会需求和利益保持一致。该学分项目将在加州大学(UC)和加州州立大学(CSU)系统中的西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)之间建立合作关系和伙伴关系。该计划包括三个相互关联的活动：1)年度团队科学领导力和团队组建务虚会；2)针对加州大学和CSU领导层的团队科学和制度变革培训/研讨会；以及3)评估和研究，将增加我们对团队科学和多样性的知识，并为学分规划提供信息。Credits项目将学术STEM职业生涯中的团队科学理论与女性和代表不足的少数族裔在STEM中的参与和晋升障碍理论联系起来。团队科学对科学创新和个人研究事业的好处正变得广为人知，但对性别和科学团队的了解较少，迄今为止还没有关于种族-民族多样性和团队科学的明确研究。Credits将开始研究这些问题，特别是提出以下问题：科学团队多样化参与的障碍、多样性如何影响科学团队的组建，以及多样性和团队科学如何与各种机构类型的晋升和终身教职做法和政策相关联。学分项目还将建立参加讲习班的教员网络，预计这将影响他们的个人专业成果。女性和代表性不足的少数族裔科学家不太可能参与团队科学合作，而且她们在职业生涯后期参与这些网络。

The PLAN-IHE funding track is designed to expand the application of proven-successful gender-equity initiatives for STEM faculty through networked adaptation of a specific program or initiative. Careful evaluation is expected to expand understanding of such initiatives across institutions and institution types. The Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Science (CREDITS) is an integrated research and training program to increase and enhance Team Science capacity, effectiveness, and excellence in California. Over the past two decades, Team Science based research has become increasingly central in scientific discovery. Scientific research can be enhanced when informed by diverse points of view and diverse (and thus often broader) research questions. Diversity on teams is known to have positive effects on creativity, innovation, and productivity. Diversity in science and in scientific teams helps ensure scientific questions and research align with social needs and benefits. The CREDITS project will forge collaborative relationships and partnerships among Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) systems. The program includes three interrelated activities: 1) Annual team science leadership and team formation retreats; 2) Team science and institutional change training/seminar for UC and CSU leadership; and 3) Evaluation and research that will increase our knowledge about team science and diversity and inform CREDITS programming. The CREDITS project links theories about team science in academic STEM careers with theories about barriers to participation and advancement in STEM for women and underrepresented minorities. The benefits of team science to science innovation and individual research careers is becoming well-known, but less is known about gender and science teams, and there has been no explicit research to date on racial-ethnic diversity and team science. CREDITS will begin to study these issues, particularly asking questions about barriers to diverse participation on science teams, how diversity shapes the formation of science teams, and how diversity and team science is implicated in promotion and tenure practices and policies at a variety of institutional types. The CREDITS project will also build the networks of the faculty participating in the workshops which is expected to affect their individual professional outcomes. Women and underrepresented minority scientists are less likely to participate in team science collaborations, and their participation in these networks develops later in their careers.