CSW|Streisand Center Community Members Honored with UCLA Distinguished Teaching Awards

The UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center is proud to recognize two members of our community—Lynette Dixon and Professor Tracy Johnson—as recipients of the 2025 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, one of the university’s highest honors for excellence in teaching.

Lynette Dixon, former coordinator of the Center’s Thinking Gender graduate student research conference and a lecturer in the UCLA Department of Gender Studies, and Tracy Johnson, CSWAC member and professor in the Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, were selected from a highly competitive pool of nominees. This award celebrates their outstanding contributions to student learning, educational innovation, and mentorship.

This year marks a significant expansion of the award program: for the first time, six non-Senate faculty members were honored, matching the number of Senate faculty recipients. Awardees were nominated across four newly expanded categories: The Practice of Teaching, Innovation and Impact, Community-Engaged Teaching, and Undergraduate Mentorship. In addition, five awards were given to exceptional Teaching Assistants.

The Distinguished Teaching Award is administered by the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center and is designed to honor faculty who demonstrate creativity in the classroom, a commitment to inclusive pedagogy, and a dedication to student success. Nearly 50 nominations were received for the Distinguished Teaching Assistant category alone—a record number for this honor.

All awardees will be celebrated at the Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching, to be held in Fall Quarter 2025.

To read the full list of recipients and learn more about the awards, visit the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center’s announcement:
2025 Distinguished Teaching Awards

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Lynette Dixon and Professor Tracy Johnson for this well-deserved recognition.