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The people interviewed for this article—Harvard administrators, the undergraduates who mentor children at the Portal, and parents who bring their children to learn in the one-story building—all echoed the same sentiment: The Education Portal is free from the tensions between the University and...
This is all the more surprising given the organization’s origins. Harvard created the Ed Portal in 2008 as a component of the legally-binding cooperation agreement that the City of Boston required the University to sign before it could break ground on the Allston Science Complex. As...
But Lue, who created the Portal and now serves as its faculty director, says that the Portal is not intended to be a gesture of obligation. Instead, he says, it has served as a way for the community and the University to truly interact.
In creating programming for the Ed Portal, Lue is advised by a committee that includes Allston residents so as to ensure that the space fulfills community needs.
All the Harvard undergraduates who mentor children at the Ed Portal interviewed for this article say they have had positive experiences with the parents and children who they work with. Still, some mentioned the need to be mindful of tensions between the University and the community.