Office of the President
Frank E. Davis is TERC’s newly appointed President. Before joining TERC, Davis headed Lesley University’s Doctoral program. Under his leadership, the Doctoral Program saw tremendous growth, contributing to the expansion of Lesley and its transition from a college to a university. He has an ongoing relationship with the Algebra Project, a network of sites dedicated to improving mathematics achievement for African American and other minority students that was founded by Robert Moses. For the project, Davis has led research and evaluation efforts supported by the National Science Foundation and several well-known philanthropies, including the Boston, GE, Lilly, Soros and MacArthur foundations. Prior to his appointment at Lesley in 1985, Davis was a professor at the University of Massachusetts where he helped develop a mathematics program for adult learners interested in careers in public service. Before that, he was the mathematics curriculum coordinator for a Boston Model Cities project designed to ensure that post-secondary students could make a successful transition into undergraduate programs. Davis holds a doctorate from Harvard University Graduate School of Education and a master's in physics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, an American Educational Research Association Fellow at the National Science Foundation, and the recipient of a Danforth Graduate Fellowship while at Harvard University.