The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) SEA Change program has recognized UC Davis with the prestigious Institutional Silver Award, SEA Change announced on Feb. 7.
UC Davis is the first institution nationally to achieve the Silver Award level. A featured program of AAAS, the SEA Change Institutional Award Program recognizes universities that engage in rigorous self-assessment and effective actions that foster an inclusive, creative, and supportive science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) environment. The Bronze, Silver, and Gold award tiers reflect sustained effort to promote thriving STEMM cultures through understanding the causes and consequences of inequity.
UC Davis has been involved with the SEA Change initiative since its inception in 2017, became one of the first Institutional Bronze Awardees in 2019, and signed on as a SEA Change Charter Member in 2020.
The UC Davis 2019 Bronze Award included a 12-point action plan to address institutional systems that create opportunities for—or barriers to—the full participation of every student, staff, and faculty member in STEMM.
The UC Davis 2025 Silver Award recognizes the significant progress the university has made in implementing its 2019 Bronze Award action plan and acknowledges the university’s continued commitment to data-informed self-assessment and sustained impact.
The Silver Award recognizes UC Davis’s progress, building upon its achievement in 2019 as the first campus to earn the Bronze Award. UC Davis continues to serve as a model for UC campuses and other academic institutions. Today, more than half of our undergraduate campuses have been recognized as Bronze Awardees. They include UC Irvine (2021), UC Santa Cruz (2023), UC San Diego (2023), and UC Berkeley (2024). This momentum advances President Drake’s vision of establishing the University of California as the nation’s first multicampus SEA Change system.
Congratulations to UC Davis for this well-deserved recognition.
