Faculty Notes Chapa promoted to full professor LBJ School Associate Professor and demographics expert Jorge Chapa was promoted to full professor in December. Chapa's teaching and research have focused on race relations, minority presence in higher education, and applied demographic analysis. He is on leave from the LBJ School this year at Michigan State University, serving as interim director of the Julian Samora Research Institute. Chapa coauthored The Burden of Support, a book that examines the social, economic, and political consequences of ethnic population trends in California. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. After the Hopwood court decision, Chapa helped to craft a new policy that automatically admits Texas high school students in the top 10 percent of their graduating class to public Texas universities. For several years he was UT Austin's associate dean of graduate studies, serving concurrently as director of the university's Graduate Opportunity Program. Rodríguez delivers speech in Mexico LBJ School Associate Professor Victoria Rodríguez was invited by the U.S. State Department to deliver the keynote speech at a February meeting on "Federalism in North America" at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. About 500 people attended the event, which was cosponsored by the American Consulate in Monterrey and the International Relations Department of the Tecnológico de Monterrey. Rodríguez spoke on "The Evolution of Federalism in Mexico and the United States." Barbara Jordan biography released The late Barbara Jordan--at various times a U.S. Representative, Texas State Senator, and LBJ School professor--is commemorated in a new book published in December by Bantam Books. Barbara Jordan, American Hero was written by Mary Beth Rogers, another former LBJ School professor who is now the chief executive officer for public television station KLRU in Austin. The book chronicles Jordan's life and achievements and looks behind the veil of privacy she maintained until her death in 1996. Jordan was the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy at the LBJ School from 1979 until 1996. Since her death, the School has named an endowed chair in her honor and hosts the Barbara Jordan Memorial Forum on Diversity in Public Policy each February around the time of her birthday (see story). Wilson holds distinguished chair in São Paulo While on leave during the spring semester, LBJ School Professor Robert Wilson taught two classes in one of Brazil's top graduate programs in public administration. As the Phillips Corporation Distinguished Visiting Chair at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo, Wilson also advised doctoral students and worked on two writing projects. In addition, he participated in a UT Austin/FGV exchange program funded by the Ford Foundation. Wilson is the Mike Hogg Professor in Urban Policy and director of UT Austin's Urban Issues Program. Hamilton returns from Oxford Professor Dagmar Hamilton returned to the LBJ School this spring after spending a term at the University of Oxford in England. She was a visiting fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law. During her time in Britain, Hamilton lectured at Oxford's Center for Sociological Studies and also spoke to the political science department at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. At both places, she discussed the subject of constitutional grounds for impeachment. Hamilton served on the legal staff of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment inquiry of President Nixon in 1973 and 1974. In October, Hamilton was invited back to the United States for a dinner at the U.S. Supreme Court to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Justice William O. Douglas' birth. Hamilton was a research associate and editor for Douglas on seven books, including his autobiography. She teaches a seminar at the LBJ School and Law School that focuses on Douglas' ideas and their relation to current policy.

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