Welcome to the first ever edition of Crusade Career Tracks. We are interviewing Crusade alums about their career choices and goals! Click on the link to read what Renee Lavoie ’04 and Andersen Deossa ’09 have to say about working in sports media. Stay tuned for more alumni career stories soon!

“Get your applications done early. Don’t procrastinate. Take advantage of all your opportunities to meet people and build your personal networks. Embrace the freedom and responsibility that will come with the college experience. Make an investment in your own future.” Crusaders at our Getting to College Workshop on Saturday, October 22, heard all this great [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our 2011 Crusader E-Mentoring Program launches this month with a pizza party! Sixty lucky Crusaders will be corresponding via email for the entire spring term with six former Crusaders who are currently in college. As mentees, they will be able to ask their e-mentors all about what it’s like to be a college student, and [...]

Welcome to our Fall 2010 News Digest. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can grab all our news highlights and links here: the-college-crusade-of-rhode-island-news-digest-fall-2010. To subscribe, send your email address to crublog@thecollegecrusade.org.

We just sent out our 2010 Summer News Digest. If you aren’t a subscriber, you can find links to all the articles here! Alumni Success Stories Melissa Amaral graduated from Brown University with a double major in Anthropology and Archaeology in 2008. She currently is employed as a College Advisor for the Phipps Community Education [...]

This summer, a group of high school Crusaders are working together to analyze media imagery with the help of Victor Omoayo, a Crusade alum who is teaching in our Media Literacy program. Victor is a graduate of Mount Pleasant High School in Providence. He went on to earn a B.A. in Journalism from the University [...]

Hundreds of new sixth-grade Crusaders are learning how to take notes, study for tests, manage their homework time, and handle many other challenges of middle school that they will face in the fall. It’s all part of our annual Ways to A’s study-skills course, which got underway at the Community College of Rhode Island this [...]

The College Crusade was grateful to receive a generous grant this year from the TG Public Benefit Grant Program. On May 27, TG came all the way from Texas to visit us! Our staff, board, alumni, and students were delighted to welcome Kristin Boyer, who is director of public benefit grants for TG. During her [...]