Teach For America Ranks Holy Cross as a Top Contributor for Sixth Year in a Row

For the sixth year in a row, the College of the Holy Cross is a top contributor to Teach For America, a nonprofit organization that sends graduating seniors into urban and rural classrooms across the nation. With 11 members of the class of 2014 recently joining the program, the College ranks among the top 20 small colleges and universities.

Founded in 1990, Teach For America recruits and develops outstanding individuals to commit to teach in high-need schools and become lifelong leaders in the movement to end educational inequity. This fall, 10,600 corps members will be teaching in 50 urban and rural regions across the country, alongside 37,000 alumni of the program working across sectors to ensure that all children have access to an excellent education.

Admission to Teach For America is highly selective, as the organization recruits on more than 600 campuses, seeking student leaders from diverse academic, racial, and economic backgrounds.

In accordance with Teach For America’s commitment to serving the underserved, Amy Murphy, director of career planning, relays the mission of a Holy Cross education: “ Our students are challenged to go beyond simply developing their gifts, talents and passions at Holy Cross. Students are pushed further to identify where and how those very gifts, talents and passions are needed in service to our local, national and global communities.”

She adds, “Teaching in some of our country's most under-resourced schools and educating some of our nation's most at-risk students is one way in which our students can be those agents for positive change immediately upon graduating from Holy Cross.”

In Teach For America’s 22 year history, more than 160 Holy Cross alumni have joined the corps.