Date(s): Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: DOC House
10 Hilton Field Rd
Hanover, NH 03755
A Conversation with Jay Davis ’90, Director of the First-Generation Office, and a panel of Dartmouth students
Jay Davis ’90, Director, First-Generation Office and Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students
Jay Davis directs the First Generation Office, its First Year Student Enrichment Program, and the King Scholars Program. He attended Dartmouth as a low-income student. He is both thrilled by the progress this College has made since then and fiercely committed to further improving the support of first-generation students.
He has been working in education on social justice issues for his 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 his current work with Dartmouth’s lowest-income students.
He has a Master in Arts and Teaching from Brown University, and was a 1990 graduate of Dartmouth, where he majored in English and Education, was a member of the Casque and Gauntlet Senior Honor Society, sang in the Glee Club, and captained the Men’s Nordic Ski team.
He lives in Lyme, NH, with his wife Julie ’91, and children Andrew and Katie. In his free time, he loves to coach youth soccer, XC skiing, and baseball, and spends as much time as possible outside (skiing and biking and running and canoeing and jumping in leaf piles, and going swimming with FGLI students in his backyard swimming hole.)