Alverno College

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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
Type Private women's college
Established1887;138 years ago (1887)
Religious affiliation
Roman Catholic (School Sisters of St. Francis)
Endowment $41.6 million [1]
President Andrea Lee
Dean Kathleen O'Brien
Academic staff
118
Administrative staff
450
Students1,596
Undergraduates 788
Postgraduates 808
Location, ,
United States

42°58′59″N87°57′54″W / 42.98306°N 87.96500°W / 42.98306; -87.96500
Campus47 acres (19 ha)
Colors    
Nickname Inferno
MascotBlaze the Inferno
Website www.alverno.edu

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

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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]

Notable people

Alumni

Faculty

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References

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  2. Songe, Alice. American Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ: 1978), p. 6
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