College Crusade Advisor Dwayne Clement celebrated recently with Crusader twins Richelene and Cindy Cesar, who are graduating from Mount Pleasant High School this spring. The Cesar twins entered Rhode Island College’s Pathways Through College program in January and have now earned 15 college credits toward their freshman year at RIC, where they will start classes [...]

Providence middle school Advisors Mayamu Kamara and Kevin Montoya will attend the annual Children, Youth & Families at Risk Conference in Baltimore next week, July 19-21. Mayamu (Perry Middle School) and Kevin (Nathanael Greene Middle School) have been hosting afterschool science workshops for Crusaders this year in partnership with a CYFAR grant project at the [...]

A big crowd of 132 eighth-grade Crusaders came to our high school Step Up Conference on January 31. They met at the Providence Academy of International Studies to attend workshops and learn all about what to expect next year when they enter high school. The workshops and presenters were: Bullying, Lt. John Reis (retired), Partnership [...]

Congratulations to the recipients of our 2008 Crusader Recognition Awards for excellence in academics, school attendance, and Crusade program participation during the 2007-2008 school year! Crusaders recognized for excellence in academics achieved a GPA of 85 or more for all four quarters last year. Other winners achieved perfect attendance in school or made the top [...]

Graciphy Castro’s office is a busy place. As the College Crusade Advisor at Jorge Alvarez High School in Providence, Graciphy spends her time encouraging and counseling high school students who are making college decisions. Here she is working with Crusaders Roxanne Hines and Abigail Hiralien, demonstrating how to search for and compare colleges using www.CollegeBoard.com. [...]

Crusaders at Perry Middle School in Providence learned how to read food labels in their science workshop today. They talked about the food pyramid with URI instructors Kim Pond and Beth McArdle and then ran relay races to build nutritious meals. TV reporter Kelley McGee from Channel 10 visited their class and did a story about [...]

Crusaders, have you met your College Crusade Advisor yet? Be sure to get to know your Advisor soon. Whether you need motivation to do better in school, advice about choosing the right classes, or someone to help you with a problem, your Advisor is there for you. We have a great group of Advisors this [...]

Shamika Fletcher, College Crusade Advisor at Gilbert Stuart Middle School, reports: “Our community service project this year was a mural created from the vision of the students at Gilbert Stuart. This inspiration was derived from the students’ everyday encounters with one another. The students decided to do a mural to enhance the beauty of their [...]

As a farewell to the end of school year 2007-2008, Ms. Ginny, College Crusade Advisor for Springfield Middle School in Providence, gathered a few 7th and 8th grade Crusaders as volunteer readers at West Broadway Elementary. During the free period for 2nd graders in the afternoon, project leaders Adeliris Sanabria and Julio Tenas organized a [...]

Crusaders at Nathanael Greene Middle School chose a delicious community service project this spring. They sold organic ice cream to benefit animals. “The main objective of this project was to do a good deed for a legitimate cause,” said Brandon Ramos, the College Crusade Advisor at Nathanael Greene, “and that’s raising money for the local [...]