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When Harvard expands across the Charles River, the Allston community will change forever. The only question is—will it change for the better or for the worse, and according to whom...
...before Harvard can even get permission to start construction—which it hopes to do by early fall—it must submit a “cooperation agreement” to the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), codifying its plans to benefit the Allston community. In negotiating this agreement, Harvard should offer initiatives that that take advantage of its strengths—its educational resources...
Though the signatories to the final agreement will be Harvard and the BRA, the Harvard-Allston Task Force, a committee of local residents, met last week to compile a table of goals and proposals for short-, medium-, and long-term projects that Harvard could undertake to benefit the community...
Although the task force has yet to formally discuss the list, Mellone said he senses that enhancing education for local children is the Allston community’s priority...
...agree. As a leading academic institution, the best way for Harvard to provide its legally obligated community benefits is to share its educational resources. In the latest draft of the master plan, the Graduate School of Education will be expanding into Allston and will therefore be ideally situated to interact with Allston schools. Furthermore, Harvard already has programs in place to share its educational resources in Cambridge, such as its parternship with the Thomas Gardner Elementary School. Harvard undergraduates are also already involved in tutoring, mentoring, and teaching local school children through organizations like Strong Women, Strong Girls, the Mission...