My name is Jay Davis, and I have the honor of directing the First Generation Office and its First Year Student Enrichment Program and the King Scholars Program. I attended Dartmouth (forever ago!) as a low-income student, and I am both thrilled by the progress this college has made since then and also fiercely committed to further improving our support of first generation students.
I have been working in education on social justice issues for my entire career, including teaching English, History and French in a variety of schools (an under-resourced urban public high school, a college preparatory boarding school, a public-private school for students with learning disabilities and a rural public middle school); teaching in the Dartmouth Education Department and directing its Secondary Teacher Education Program; founding and directing the college- access program Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth; and my current work with Dartmouth's lowest-income (and most remarkable!) students.
I also chair the Money Matters Committee at Dartmouth, serve as campus liaison for the College Transition Collaborative, work as a national facilitator for the School Reform Initiative, participate in numerous search committees for the College, and have been a member of the Dartmouth Strategic Planning Committee. I am a regular presenter at the Rockefeller Center for Leacership as well as at national conferences on college access and success for students from underrepresented populations. I am the recipient of the "Campus Compact for New Hampshire Good Steward Award," selected by the president of Dartmouth College, and the 2017 Nelson Armstrong Award for the Dartmouth administrator who has made the largest contribution to the lives of African-American students.
I have a Masters in Arts and Teaching from Brown University, and was a 1990 graduate of Dartmouth, where I majored in English and Education, was a member of the Casque and Gauntlet Senior Honor Society, sang in the Glee Club, captained the Men's Nordic Ski team, and made lots of mistakes (some of which I learned from.)
I live in Lyme, NH with my wonderful (and patient!) wife Julie '91 and children Andrew and Katie. In free time, I love to coach youth soccer, xc skiing and baseball, and I spend as much time as I can outside (skiing and biking and running and canoeing and jumping in leaf piles and going swimming with FGLI students in my backyard swimming hole. )