He serves as the Dean of the Colleges and Professor of Art History at Point Loma Nazarene University in Southern California.

[2][3] Dr. Daichendt founded and is the Principal Editor for the academic journal "Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art.

[6][7] He has also received academic attention for his texts Artist Scholar: Reflections on Writing and Research and Artist-Teacher: A Philosophy for Creating and Teaching.

Daichendt lectures regularly on the subject of art education and street art and was featured on TED Talk, The Streets as Canvas.

He has authored biographies on artists Robbie Conal and Kenny Scharf.