Alverno College

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Alverno College
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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 Christy L. Brown
Academic staff
79
Administrative staff
130
Students1,322 [2]
Undergraduates 673
Postgraduates 649
Location
Milwaukee
,
Wisconsin
,
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 alverno.edu
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Alverno College

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

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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. [3]

Milwaukee native Christy L. Brown was selected as the college's ninth president on April 19, 2023. [4] 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. [5]

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. [6]

The college was tied for 62 out of 127 in "Regional Universities Midwest" in the 2022–23 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking. [7]

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. [8]

Notable people

Alumni

Faculty

References

  1. ↑ As of 2021. https://datausa.io/profile/university/alverno-college
  2. ↑ As of 2025. https://www.alverno.edu/about/at-a-glance
  3. ↑ Songe, Alice. American Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ: 1978), p. 6
  4. ↑ "Alverno President". alverno.edu. Archived from the original on 2023-05-28. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  5. ↑ Unglesbee, Ben (June 17, 2024). "Alverno College to cut 14 majors after declaring financial exigency". Higher Ed Dive . Retrieved June 17, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Alverno's Grading System". alverno.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-01-30. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  7. ↑ "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.
  8. ↑ 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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