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What’s happening at The College Crusade of Rhode Island


Welcome to CruBlog! Read on for exciting news about what our middle school and high school members have accomplished lately. You’ll also discover insightful comments from our Advisory staff and messages from successful College Crusade Alumni doing great things out in the world.

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Walkathon Raises $2,500 for Children

On June 24, students from the High School Crusade Advisory Board delivered a check for $2,500 to The Tomorrow Fund, which provides daily financial and emotional support to children with cancer and their families receiving treatment at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence. The High School CAB raised the funds as a community service project by [...]

High School CAB Reviews College Guide

On April 28, our high school Crusade Advisory Board gathered to discuss a new college guidebook published by the Center for Student Opportunity, in Bethesda, Md. CSO staff member Joseph Tavares, project coordinator for the College Access & Opportunity Guide, was on hand to run the focus group and to record feedback from Crusaders. The [...]

High School Crusaders Join CAB

Our High School Crusade Advisory Board meets monthly to discuss important issues for Crusaders, to plan projects, and to have some fun together. Here are HS CAB board members for the 2008-2009 school year:   Hannah Alegbeleye, Woonsocket High School; Alma Alvarez, The MET School; Jonathan Aponte, Woonsocket High School; Memorie Burton, Textron Chamber of [...]

Introducing… Our Middle School CAB

Welcome to the members of our Middle School Crusade Advisory Board for 2008-2009! They represent the College Crusade in their schools and meet monthly to work together on fun and interesting projects. MS CAB members are: Ayokunle Akinrimisi, Nathanael Greene Middle School; David Archila, Samuel W. Bridgham Middle School; Raven Cannon, Governor DelSesto Middle School; Sandra [...]

Get to College (the Video)

This fall’s Getting to College Conference was held on October 11 at Jorge Alvarez High School in Providence. A big hit of the day was the premiere showing of video that a team of Crusaders worked on over the summer as a public service announcement. Not only did they do all the project planning and [...]

Hooray for Our Middle School CAB!

Many thanks to these Crusaders for all the great work they did this year representing their schools as members of our Middle School Crusade Advisory Board for 2007-2008: Oyindamola Akingbile, Nathanael Greene Middle School; Rishelly Colon, Dr. Earl F. Calcutt Middle School; Josue Cua, Nathanael Greene Middle School; Kayla Davis, Joseph Jenks Junior High School; [...]

To Our High School CAB: Thank You!

This year, 28 Crusaders from 18 separate Rhode Island high schools took on leadership roles as members of our High School Crusade Advisory Board. CAB members serve as the link between The College Crusade and their schools. They disseminate information to other Crusaders about programs, field trips, awards, and other activities, and they maintain College [...]