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 [...]

Summer is here, so that means our Ways to A’s program for 2011 is underway! Hundreds of sixth graders are preparing to become new Crusaders in the fall. Guided by our great staff of Ways to A’s instructors, these students are sharpening up their study skills so they’ll be ready to make the big leap [...]

Michele Cinquegrano of Verizon Foundation visited a classroom of Ways to A’s students today and presented us with a check for $5,000! The grant goes to support our Adventures in Literacy program during the school year. Before posing with College Crusade CEO Todd Flaherty for a photo, Ms. Cinquegrano spoke with the sixth graders. “The [...]

Warwick business owner Leonard Martin presented The College Crusade with a $5,000 check on August 4! The grant is from the Million Dollar Round Table Foundation, an organization for financial services professionals that gives grants to charities all over the world. Mr. Martin, who owns Leonard Martin & Associates, Inc., is a member of MDRT [...]

Ways to A’s has started! Our summer study-skills program for students who are joining The College Crusade this fall is packed with up-and-coming 6th graders from Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Woonsocket. Their coursework includes exercises in active listening, note taking, reading, and writing, memory improvement, test taking, learning styles, and time and classroom management. [...]

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 [...]

Today starts the last week of Ways to A’s, our summer study-skills course for sixth graders who are joining The College Crusade this fall. This afternoon students were learning about note taking and playing memorization games. (Quick, what’s the size of Alaska in square miles?) They also read a chapter aloud together from Freak the [...]

It’s July, and our Ways to A’s summer study-skills program for sixth graders is in full swing! Nearly 300 students are signed up to sharpen their study skills and get ready for the challenge of middle school this fall. As always, our Ways to A’s teaching team features all Crusade Alums! They are Casby Harrison, [...]

A group of successful former Crusaders spent six weeks teaching study skills to 6th and 9th graders in our Ways to A’s program this summer! Pictured here with site coordinator Adam Tarczuk (back row, second from left), they are Marianella Solano, Kathy Toro, Tiffany Hooks, Gladys Vasquez, Diony Garcia, and Lisette Gomes (front row); Harry [...]

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 [...]