Spring 2025
Section 5404 of DRD700
Learning Strategies -- : Jan 14 - May 13 2025
This section is for college success strategies for student-athletes softball.
Section 5819 of DRD700
Learning Strategies -- : Jan 13 - May 12 2025
This section is for college success strategies for student-athletes women's basketball.
Section 5821 of DRD700
Learning Strategies -- : Jan 15 - May 14 2025
This section is for college success strategies for student-athletes football.
Section 5822 of DRD700
Learning Strategies -- : Jan 15 - May 14 2025
This section is for college success strategies for student-athletes men's soccer.
Section 5827 of DRD700
Learning Strategies -- : Jan 16 - May 15 2025
This section is for college success strategies for student-athletes women's soccer.
Section 6365 of DRD700
Learning Strategies -- : Jan 13 - May 16 2025
This section is for concussion education/baseline testing for intercollegiate and club sports.
Fall 2024
Section 1556 of DRD700
Learning Strategies -- : Aug 21 - Dec 11 2024
This section is for college success strategies for student-athletes football.
Section 1557 of DRD700
Learning Strategies -- : Aug 22 - Dec 12 2024
This section is for college success strategies for student-athletes women's soccer.
Section 1558 of DRD700
Learning Strategies -- : Aug 21 - Dec 11 2024
This section is for college success strategies for student-athletes men's soccer.
Section 1562 of DRD700
Learning Strategies -- : Aug 20 - Dec 10 2024
This section is for college success strategies for student-athletes softball.
Section 1565 of DRD700
Learning Strategies -- : Aug 19 - Dec 09 2024
This section is for college success strategies for student-athletes women's basketball.
Section 1588 of DRD700
Learning Strategies -- : Aug 15 - Dec 08 2024
This section is for concussion education/baseline testing for intercollegiate and club sports.
Summer 2024
Section 8222 of DRD700
Learning Strategies -- : Jul 31 - Aug 13 2024
The above section is for student athletes and students participating in club sports.
Doctorate, Educational Leadership
University of California Davis
M.S., Speech/language Pathology
San Francisco State University
B.A., Communicative Disorders
San Francisco State University
Board Member, North Coast Concussion Management
Member, American Academy of Neurology
Chair, AHEAD Research Review Panel
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability (JPED)
Student-athlete Concussion Discussion Group:
Meetings incorporate the mindset of the student-athlete, concussion education and a team approach to promote successful return to play and the classroom following concussion.
Classes Taught
DRD 700 Learning Strategies (Concussion education for student-athletes and club sports)
DRD 312 Coping Strategies for Students with Acquired Brain Injuries
DRD 360.3 College Success: Reading Methods, Concentration and Memory
Publications:
Chinn, NR (2021) The Appointment That Can't Wait: Serving Students with Concussion in Disability Resources. Association on Higher Education and Disability. https://www.ahead.org/professional-resources/publications/publications-for-sale
Chinn, NR and Porter, P. (2016). Concussion reporting behaviours of community college student-athletes and limits of transferring concussion knowledge during the stress of competition. BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med 2016;2:e000118. doi:10.1136/bmjsem-2016-000118
Chinn, NR and Porter, P. (2013). Concussion management in community college athletics: Revealing and understanding the gap between knowledge and practice, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 37:6, 409-423.
Chinn, NR. (2010). Concussion assessment in California Community College football: Athletic trainers' strides toward a safer return to play, ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis. 1-173.
Chinn, NR. (2009). Acquired brain injury club at a community college: Opportunities for support, involvement and leadership. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 21, 175-178.
Presentations:
Chinn, NR, (2018) Contextual procedure-based concussion education and community college student-athlete reporting of concussion, American Academy of Neurology Sports Concussion Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Chinn, NR (2017) Return to the classroom following concussion. Concussion Symposium, Buck Institute Novato, California.
Chinn, NR (2016). Concussion reporting behaviours of community college student-athletes and limits of transferring concussion knowledge during the stress of competition, American Academy of Neurology Sports Concussion Conference, Denver, Colorado.
Chinn, NR and Ohkubo, M. (2014). Disability Resources and Sports Medicine: A Collaborative Model for Best Practices in Concussion Management in Community College Athletics, NASPA National Conference, Baltimore, Maryland.
Chinn, NR and Ohkubo, M. (2013). Breaking down the silos: An interdisciplinary approach to enhancing the learning, health and civic engagement of college student-athletes. International Conference on Sport and Society, Chicago USA.
Chinn, NR and Ohkubo M. (2012). A collaborative approach to concussion management in community college athletics, International Conference on Sport and Society, Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
Chinn, NR and Ohkubo, M. (2011). Concussion management in California Community College athletics: A model for best practices. Far West Athletic Trainers Association (FWATA) Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Chinn, NR and Ohkubo, M. (2011) Disability Resources and Sports Medicine collaborate in concussion management of community college student-athletes. California Association for Postsecondary Education and Disability, Riverside, California.
Chinn, NR (2010). Management of concussion in Community College Athletics. North American Brain Injury Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Chinn, NR (2008). Acquired brain injury club at a community college: Opportunities for support, involvement and leadership. World Congress on Brain Injury, Lisbon, Portugal.
SRJC Academic Senate Sabbatical Project Award, 2016
NASPA Excellence Award Grand Silver Medal for Santa Rosa Junior College's Concussion Management Program, Chinn and Ohkubo. 2014
NASPA Excellence Award, Gold in the category of Athletics for Santa Rosa Junior College's Concussion Management Program, Chinn and Ohkubo, 2014.
Channing Brigges Research Grant, NASPA 2013.
American Association of Colleges and Universities, Bringing Theory to Practice Grant, Chinn and Ohkubo, 2012.
Santa Rosa Junior College/Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce Excellence in Education Award, Chinn and Ohkubo, 2011.
Regina Stanbeck-Stroud Diversity Award, SRJC Nominee, 2005.