Professor and Dean of the College of Applied Arts at Texas State University
About
Jaime Chahin is a professor and the dean of the College of Applied Arts at Texas State University. He has been at the Texas State since 1987 and prior to that, he served as associate vice president of human resources and senior policy analyst for the Select Committee for Higher Education of Texas. His education includes a BA in sociology and political science from Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M) and MSW & PhD in social work and education administration from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Recently, he has chaired the Colonias Committee for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. His most recent research publications include: "Effective Leadership at a Hispanic Serving Institution: Critical Attributes and Principles" (2019); "Dreamers, Growing Up Undocumented in the United States of America" (2018); "Values, Migrant Parents, Leadership and the Public Good" (2017); "Latino Youth Resilience" (2011); "Engaged Scholarship in Hispanic-Serving Institutions" (August 2010); and co-editor of Handbook of US Latino Psychology: Development and Community-Based Perspectives (August 2009). He also was executive producer of two PBS documentaries Mexican American Legislative Caucus: The Texas Struggle for Equality and Opportunity, which premiered on PBS on October 8, 2007, and, The Forgotten Americans, a film about colonias in the US Mexico border, which premiered at the Smithsonian and on PBS on December 14, 2000.
Current Work:
Leadership and Hispanic serving Institutions; graduate students and USDA; virtual technology and access to families and students in underrepresented communities.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Migrants, Hispanic serving institutions, access, graduate students, and DACA
