Jim Frabutt

Jim Frabutt is a faculty member in the Institute for Educational Initiatives and has taught in the Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program, ACE Teaching Fellows, and the interdisciplinary Education, Schooling, and Society program. As an IEI faculty member, he led various initiatives to support children with diverse learning needs and has researched the mental, emotional, and behavioral health of students in Catholic schools.

Frabutt previously served as senior advisor to the provost, a role he held for five years. In that capacity, he supported the provost in the development and implementation of strategic projects, managed academic program reviews, coordinated academic leadership teams (e.g., the Deans' Council and Provost’s Cabinet), guided strategic initiatives and major communications in collaboration with officers and other campus leadership, and coordinated the operations of the Office of the Provost.

He also served for two years as director of academic community engagement in the Office of the Provost, developing strategies to leverage the many intellectual assets of Notre Dame’s faculty for the benefit of local communities.

Frabutt holds a B.A. in psychology and Italian from Notre Dame and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in human development and family studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). The author or co-author of nine books and nearly 60 articles and book chapters, he has employed action-oriented, community-based research approaches to areas such as parenting and child development, delinquency prevention, school-based mental health, teacher and administrator action research, racial disparities in the juvenile justice system, and community violence reduction. Prior to returning to Notre Dame, he was deputy director of UNCG’s Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships.