Crusaders at Roger Williams Middle School have been thinking and writing about bullying recently. They watched a documentary film called Bullied, which chronicles one student’s ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies and offers an inspiring message of hope to those fighting harassment today. After the film, Crusade Advisor Kristina Moyet invited several Crusaders to [...]

Four 8th-grade Crusaders at Roger Williams Middle School in Providence assist College Crusade Advisor Kristina Moyet in many ways. Pictured here from left to right with Kristina at the center is the Roger Williams mentoring team: Kimberly Gomez, Jacqueline Escolastico, Elfreda Hoff, and Kirsi Madera. During afterschool Cru Club, they help organize activities and snacks [...]

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 [...]

Kings, queens, fairies, and sprites were everywhere this week at the third annual Shakespeare in the City. More than 200 students from 14 Providence schools took the stage at Lincoln School on Tuesday, May 24, to present scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies. Crusade Advisor Kristina Moyet from Roger Williams [...]

Crusaders, are you ready for a great school year? Seek out the College Crusade Advisor at your school and get a burst of energy and optimism to start the year. Your Advisor is ready to welcome you and tell you about all our fall college-readiness programs. We have four new Advisors joining our staff this [...]

Four Crusade Advisors will attend the Children, Youth and Families At Risk (CYFAR) 2010 Conference in San Francisco this spring! Jenniffer Rivera, Javier Cabrera, Kristina Moyet, and Mayamu Kamara have been hosting afterschool science workshops for Crusaders all year in four Providence middle schools in partnership with a CYFAR grant project at the University of [...]

On January 31, hundreds of high school and college students from all over Rhode Island got their FAFSA financial aid form filled out and submitted online as part of College Goal Sunday RI 2010. The Rhode Island Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators sponsored the event at six sites across the state. College Crusade staff [...]

Crusaders, if you haven’t met your College Crusade Advisor yet, now is the time! Their job is to get you motivated to do better in school, help you do the things you need to be ready for college, and be there as a friend when you need one. Your Advisor is there for you, so [...]

Why are there two bodies in the basement? Do the clues show what happened? Two dozen middle school Crusaders learned the science of forensics at Wheeler Summer Camp this month and tried to solve the mystery! Instructor Bob Schmidt of Wheeler taught them how to observe at a crime scene, how to collect clues, and [...]

Brian Estrada, a graduating Crusader at Mount Pleasant High School, is traveling to San Francisco next month to attend a special Youth Leadership Summit on education. The event is sponsored by the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP) and takes place July 18-22. Brian will represent Rhode Island as one of only 30 [...]