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Three students from Providence College organized a fundraising event for The College Crusade as a project for their Organizational Theory class this term! Project team members (left to right) were junior Ben Farrer of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; junior Ben Cerroni of Dublin, N.H.; and senior Andrew Kelley of Wakefield, R.I. They chose a fun venue [...]

Deb Donovan, director of maintenance for Amgen Inc., visited Cru Club on December 6 to talk with Crusaders about how she became a chemical engineer. She spoke to both middle school and high school groups, describing her path to college and explaining how education prepared her for a good career. Thanks to Deb for sharing [...]

On July 17, The Amgen Foundation visited our Ways to A’s study-skills program to present a check for $20,000 to a classroom of Crusaders! During the visit, company representatives Larry Bernard, Thomas Spooner, and Erin Tetreault talked with the group of 9th graders about careers with Amgen and described how their own college experiences prepared [...]

Middle school and high school Crusaders wrote lots of thank-you letters to friends and supporters of The College Crusade this year. Among the recipients were Sen. Jack Reed, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, and Rep. James Langevin, along with generous funders such as Bank of America, Amgen Foundation, Textron, June Rockwell Levy Foundation, Joukowsky Family Foundation, and Andrade-Faxon Charities for Children. In their letters, they described [...]