Alverno College is a private Roman Catholic women's college in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Alverno College
Former names
St. Joseph's Normal School (1887–1936)
Alverno Teachers College (1936–1946)
MottoIn Sanctitate et Doctrina
Motto in English
In Holiness and Learning
TypePrivate women's college
Established1887; 137 years ago (1887)
Religious affiliation
Roman Catholic (School Sisters of St. Francis)
Endowment$41.6 million[1]
PresidentAndrea Lee
DeanKathleen O'Brien
Academic staff
118
Administrative staff
450
Students1,596
Undergraduates788
Postgraduates808
Location, ,
United States

42°58′59″N 87°57′54″W / 42.98306°N 87.96500°W / 42.98306; -87.96500
Campus47 acres (19 ha)
Colors   
NicknameInferno
MascotBlaze the Inferno
Websitewww.alverno.edu
Alverno College Fall 2011

History

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Chartered in 1887 as St. Joseph's Normal School, Alverno became Alverno Teachers College in 1936. It adopted its current name in 1946.[2]

Milwaukee native Christy L. Brown was selected as the college's ninth president on April 19, 2023.[3] The following year, the college had a $12.4 million operating deficit. Its board of trustees subsequently declared "financial exigency" and announced plans to eliminate full-time faculty and staff, cut academic programs, end its track and field program, and engage in other activities to address the deficit.[4]

Academics

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Alverno offers undergraduate programs and a coeducational Master of Arts program for teachers and business professionals, the Alverno MBA, and a Master of Science in nursing. The Weekend College was opened in 1977 as the first alternative time-frame program in Milwaukee to serve working women in the Milwaukee area. It is still primarily a women's college. The baccalaureate degree programs, residences, etc. are still open only to women; graduate degree programs are open to both women and men.

Alverno does not use a letter or number system for grading, but instead uses an abilities based curriculum and narrative evaluation.[5]

Rankings

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Alverno College was tied for 62 out of 127 in Regional Universities Midwest in the 2022-23 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges ranking.[6]

Athletics

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Alverno College teams participate as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III. The Inferno are a member of the Northern Athletics Conference (NAC). Alverno was also a member of the Lake Michigan Conference until the spring of 2006. Women's sports include basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball. Boxing was added as a club sport in 2016, and the team competes as part of the United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association; they have earned one individual championship as of 2019.[7]

Alumni

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Faculty

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References

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  1. ^ As of 2021. https://datausa.io/profile/university/alverno-college#:~:text=Alverno%20College%20has%20an%20endowment,of%20the%202021%20fiscal%20year.
  2. ^ Songe, Alice. American Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ: 1978), p. 6
  3. ^ "Alverno President". www.alverno.edu. Archived from the original on 2023-05-28. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  4. ^ Unglesbee, Ben (June 17, 2024). "Alverno College to cut 14 majors after declaring financial exigency". Higher Ed Dive. Retrieved June 17, 2024.
  5. ^ "Alverno's Grading System - Alverno College - Alverno College". www.alverno.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-01-30. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  6. ^ "U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Alverno College". U.S. News & World Report. September 12, 2022. Archived from the original on August 21, 2023. Retrieved August 21, 2023.
  7. ^ Sharkey, Kaitlin (May 2, 2018). "'I feel a whole lot safer:' Alverno College Boxing Club builds self-confidence, camaraderie". Fox 6 Now. Archived from the original on 2019-09-03. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
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