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 [...]

Visitors from Amgen Foundation dropped in to see Mayor Marc Saldarriaga and the rest of his City Hall staff at Exchange City this week! Pictured here from Amgen, along with the mayor’s excellent judicial and law enforcement personnel, are Kathy Demarest, Executive Director, Quality Analytical Labs; Christina Evon, Associate, Corporate Communications & Philanthropy; and John [...]

Seventh-grade Crusaders at Roger Williams Middle School and Nathanael Greene Middle School got to see the universe up close in their afterschool science workshops this fall. They met weekly with instructors from the University of Rhode Island to discover the science of astronomy. They explored how telescopes work, learned how to download digital space photography, [...]

The College Crusade honored two local individuals as Partners in Philanthropy at the 2010 National Philanthropy Day breakfast event on November 23. They are Denise Jenkins, grant program officer for the Rhode Island Foundation, and Dr. Irving Schneider, president of Johnson & Wales University and a College Crusade board member. We are very grateful for [...]

College Crusade CEO Todd Flaherty shared his philosophy of leadership with Johnson & Wales University students in Professor Laurie Lapane’s Foundations of Leadership course last week. His talk was part of a presentation on community leaders that a group of students prepared for the class. Among the members of the student project team was Geraldine [...]

Now that’s a crepe! In a big finish to their April school vacation week, over two dozen middle school Crusaders enjoyed a daylong campus experience at Johnson & Wales University in downtown Providence. Hosting the visit was the JWU President’s Leadership Council, an organization of 65 academically successful students who serve as a liaison between [...]

The Latino American Club at Johnson & Wales University is holding a benefit talent show for The College Crusade this month! The event is called Chaotic Talento and is scheduled for April 30 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. at Xavier Auditorium on the JWU Downtown campus. There will be cash prizes for winning performances and [...]

Last week, during February school vacation, over 160 ambitious sixth-grade Crusaders took the government and business world into their own hands. They became residents of Exchange City, an interactive civics environment created by Education in Action and hosted by Johnson & Wales University’s Harborside Campus. They appointed a mayor, developed city rules and regulations, established [...]

So you want to be a DJ? Middle school Crusaders at Saturday Cru Club got a treat last weekend when professional DJ and award-winning science teacher Ulysses Gallman came to visit. He brought all his DJ gear – mixers, turntables, CD players, speakers, and microphones – and he even set up a light show in the [...]

Crusaders, it’s a new year, and you have a lot to look forward to on Saturdays. Come to Johnson & Wales University Harborside Campus to see why! Our 2010 Saturday Cru Club program is packed with interesting skill-building activities in writing, time management, learning styles, studying and test taking, and active listening. Visiting career speakers [...]