Crusaders at Mount Pleasant High School received a flock of academic accolades for fall 2011. Here are the honorees! Above, from left to right: Etebom Samuel, Stephen Pena, Alvaro Morales, Joana Delva, Alliyah Phin, Jeffery Avila, and Julia Franco. At left: Alondra Berrios. Below, from left to right: Jasmin Urquilla, Ariel Wilkerson, Chavelin Romero, Adadeyo [...]

Ninth-grade Crusaders in our high school Passageways program spent the whole fall term learning how to survive and thrive in high school, and last night they celebrated with a skating party! Passageways is an afterschool workshop hosted by Crusade Advisors in a dozen different high schools. Participating students work together on a curriculum that includes [...]

Over 160 Crusaders gathered at Johnson & Wales Harborside Campus this weekend for the first Saturday Cru Club day of the year! We welcomed a packed classroom of new 6th grade Crusaders to our Ways to A’s study skills program. Other classrooms of middle school Crusaders got involved with language arts games, advisory activities, and [...]

“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 [...]

Crusaders at Mount Pleasant High School welcomed U.S. Senator Jack Reed and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse to their school library today! A big group of state education officials and College Crusade staff members joined them for a press conference to celebrate the announcement of a $3 million federal GEAR UP grant for Rhode Island. Featured [...]

Dozens of high school Crusaders learned valuable hands-on leadership skills at our 2011 Crusade Summer Experience program in August. Advisor Dwayne Clement grabbed this photo of some of them on the URI campus before they launched into their next team-building exercise. Each week of CSE featured a host of interactive challenges, public speaking practice, scavenger [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Lenny Chroek Attends: Woonsocket High School. Grad year: 2012. Favorite subject: History. “I like to look back and see what people do to make things happen. I want to create history and leave my mark.” Recent accomplishments: Teaching hip-hop classes to kids. Running the high school’s Mr. Villa Novan pageant event for the third year [...]

The 1000 Hour Club honors Crusaders who have high levels of participation in our programs since sixth grade. We announce a new 1000 Hour Club each year to recognize Crusaders who have shown remarkable dedication to preparing themselves for higher education. Four of our graduating seniors whizzed across the 1000-hour mark this year. You can [...]