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Welcome to CruBlog! Read on for exciting news about what our middle school and high school members have accomplished lately. You’ll also discover insightful comments from our Advisory staff and messages from successful College Crusade Alumni doing great things out in the world.

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Archive for July, 2011

It’s About Choices

High school Crusaders participating in our weeklong Choices program at Brown University had a treat on Friday – a visiting panel of six Crusade alumni dropped in to talk about important choices they have made. Recent alums Chris Calderon ’10, Yvonne Snead ’10, and Edgar Meza-Lopez ’11 offered their perspectives on what worked for them [...]

Thinking and Writing About Media

Led by veteran high school English teacher Demian Yattaw, dozens of Crusaders are taking on the writing challenge in our Media Literacy Writing Program this month. In two-week sessions, they meet in the Learning Center at our headquarters in Providence every morning to analyze, discuss, and write about the influence of media in our lives. [...]

Celebrating Crusade Alumni

Sixteen alumni of The College Crusade joined us for our annual dinner in June and gathered for this impressive group portrait. Several of the professionals in this photo are currently working on our staff as Crusade Advisors. The others are employed in fields as diverse as education, law, human services, research science, and business. They [...]

Welcome to Ways to A’s!

Summer is here, so that means our Ways to A’s program for 2011 is underway! Hundreds of sixth graders are preparing to become new Crusaders in the fall. Guided by our great staff of Ways to A’s instructors, these students are sharpening up their study skills so they’ll be ready to make the big leap [...]