Alverno College

Alverno College
Former names	St. Joseph's Normal School (1887–1936); Alverno Teachers College (1936–1946)
Motto	In Sanctitate et Doctrina
Motto in English	In Holiness and Learning
Type	Private women's college
Established	1887; 137 years ago
Religious affiliation	Roman Catholic (School Sisters of St. Francis)
Endowment	$41.6 million
President	Andrea Lee
Dean	Kathleen O'Brien
Academic staff	118
Administrative staff	450
Students	1,596
Undergraduates	788
Postgraduates	808
Location	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; 42°58′59″N 87°57′54″W / 42.98306°N 87.96500°W
Campus	47 acres (19 ha)
Colors
Nickname	Inferno
Mascot	Blaze the Inferno
Website	www.alverno.edu

Alverno College Fall 2011

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

History

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

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

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

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

Diane Drufenbrock, Roman Catholic nun and Socialist Party nominee for Vice President of the United States
Georgine Loacker, educator
Cree Myles, influencer, writer and organizer
Toni Palermo, educator and baseball player
Sister Joel Read, Roman Catholic nun and educator
Marilyn Shrude, composer
Marion Verhaalen, composer and musicologist

Faculty

Carole Barrowman, English professor and author
M. Mary Corona, College president from 1942 to 1948

References

^ As of 2021. https://datausa.io/profile/university/alverno-college#:~:text=Alverno%20College%20has%20an%20endowment,of%20the%202021%20fiscal%20year.
^ Songe, Alice. American Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ: 1978), p. 6
^ "Alverno President". www.alverno.edu. Archived from the original on 2023-05-28. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
^ Unglesbee, Ben (June 17, 2024). "Alverno College to cut 14 majors after declaring financial exigency". Higher Ed Dive. Retrieved June 17, 2024.
^ "Alverno's Grading System - Alverno College - Alverno College". www.alverno.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-01-30. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
^ "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.
^ 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.

External links

Official website

[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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