James Walter Fraser is an American educationalist, pastor, and academic administrator.
He earned an elementary school teaching credential in August 1968 from New York University.
Fraser was an assistant professor of religion and education from 1978 to 1984 at Boston University School of Theology.
[1] At the University of Massachusetts Boston College of Public and Community Service Fraser, was an assistant and then associate professor from 1984 to 1990.
Fraser was a senior associate in the John W. McCormack Institute for Public Affairs from 1984 to 1993.
He was senior vice president for programs of the Woodrow Wilson national fellowship foundation from 2008 to 2012.
[1] In 2015, he became chair of the department of applied statistics, social science, and humanities at Steinhardt.