- Over 90% of BSS graduating seniors say their faculty cared about their success.
- Over 90% of BSS graduating seniors would recommend their majors to others.
- Over 90% of BSS graduating seniors say their faculty were available during office hours.
College Awards
Congratulations Award Recipients
Award Recipients
Jessica Ramirez
2020 Valene Smith Outstanding Student Leader & 2020 Chico State Outstanding Student Leader
"Being a leader means understanding and acknowledging the privilege that I hold and using such privilege to create space and opportunity for others to have an equitable chance at life and self-autonomy."
Emily Lees
2020 Sol Narad Memorial Student 
Leadership Award
"We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an unjust civilization is build upon sand. It does not long survive a storm."-Mace Windu
Caitlyn Patterson
Gerontology Award
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." - Edward Everett Hale
Manuel Alexis Bautista Lua
Professional Attire Fund Award
Autumn Brock
Professional Attire Fund Award
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller
Cristian Castro
Professional Attire Fund Award
Susie Fernandez
Professional Attire Fund Award
"Gratitude opens the door to... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude." - Deepak Chopra
Kimberly Gomez
Professional Attire Fund Award
"our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry." -rupi kaur (women of colour)
Briana Guerrero-Vega
Professional Attire Fund Award
Briana Guerrero-Vega is a double major in social work and multicultural gender studies. She is a first-generation Chicana student who been accepted into the MSW graduate program here at Chico State this coming school year.
Elsa Itzel Lopez Montano
Professional Attire Fund Award
"I'm grateful for all the support to help me succeed."
Gustavo Martir Luna
Professional Attire Fund Award
"A leader is someone who progresses towards a worthy ideal, while motivating and inspiring others to do the same. I believe in you to be that leader."
Kathryn Palmer
Professional Attire Fund Award
Arely Saldana
Professional Attire Fund Award
"Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.” - Dan Brown