Meet the Team

The Beginning: Mark & Melinda Crenwelge

Academics Plus was founded in 1992 by Mark and Melinda Crenwelge. Melinda, who holds a doctoral degree in reading, and Mark, a master's degree in mathematics with postgraduate work in psychology, had worked as educators in Collin County since the early 1980's. As parents and active members of their community, the Crenwelge's understood the value and importance of a quality education. Their desire was to build a supplemental education business that positively impacted children by dramatically increasing each student's academic performance.

The journey began over a year earlier when the Crenwelge's purchased and operated a learning center franchise from a major, national corporation. This experience taught them the benefits and pitfalls of franchising in the supplemental education industry and the need for a completely new model to bring their dream to reality. Utilizing their extensive background in education and academics, they developed their own "engine," a prescriptive, individualized, instructional model, and proceeded to open the doors of their new center in 1992.

Where We Are Now

Along with the fully-trained team of Instructors, students are finding that the academic goals which they set for themselves are truly only the beginning to what can only be described as a Mind-Expanding Experience.