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In recent years, UMass Boston alumna and current doctoral candidate Pamela Trefler has donated $3.6 million to aid UMass Boston's outreach to Boston public schools including Dorchester, East Boston, Madison Park, and English high schools.
This January, the effort entered a new stage as former Boston Foundation Vice President Christine Green was hired as director of the Initiative for Excellence in Urban Education. "Working with the Graduate College of Education and the Trefler Foundation, I can help connect and create a body of knowledge and help add to the investment in the schools," Green explains.
With a doctorate in educational leadership, administration, planning and policy from Boston University, Green is experienced in strategic planning, grant initiative development, grantmaking, nonprofit research, operations design, and evaluation.
Graduate College of Education Dean Virginia Smith Harvey notes that Green will be helpful in terms of "looking at which areas are most effectively targeted when funds are provided to the schools by either public or private sources."
In addition to working for the Boston Foundation and consulting for the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund and the Massachusetts Environmental Trust, Green has also had direct experience working with the Boston Public Schools. From 1985 to 1987, she served as director of the Boston Public Schools/Boston University Urban Initiative, working to develop school and university partnerships.
In her current role, Green is still in an information-gathering stage. She says, "I'm taking a look at how the programs operate, and thinking about how to get more resources, how to elevate the profile of this work both locally and nationally."
Pamela Trefler welcomes the addition. "We think that she will take the work that we're doing to a much higher level," she says.