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

该计划-IHE资助轨道的目的是扩大应用证明成功的性别平等倡议的STEM教师通过网络适应一个特定的程序或倡议。 仔细的评价预计将扩大对这些举措的了解 机构和机构类型。团队科学研究，卓越和多样性中心（CREDITS）是一个综合的研究和培训计划，旨在提高和增强加州的团队科学能力，效率和卓越。 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。 科学研究可以通过了解不同的观点和不同的（因此往往是更广泛的）研究问题来加强。 众所周知，团队的多样性对创造力、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符合社会需求和利益。 CREDITS项目将在加州大学（UC）和加州州立大学（CSU）系统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）年度团队科学领导和团队形成务虚会; 2）UC和CSU领导的团队科学和机构变革培训/研讨会;和3）评估和研究，这将增加我们对团队科学和多样性的了解，并告知CREDITS编程。 CREDITS项目将学术STEM职业中的团队科学理论与女性和代表性不足的少数民族参与和提升STEM的障碍理论联系起来。 团队科学对科学创新和个人研究事业的好处越来越为人所知，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，特别是询问有关科学团队多元化参与的障碍，多样性如何塑造科学团队的形成，以及多样性和团队科学如何与各种机构类型的晋升和任期实践和政策有关。 CREDITS项目还将建立参加讲习班的教师网络，预计这将影响他们个人的专业成果。 女性和代表性不足的少数民族科学家不太可能参与团队科学合作，他们在这些网络中的参与在他们的职业生涯后期发展。

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.