Alverno College
Former names | St. Joseph's Normal School (1887–1936) Alverno Teachers College (1936–1946) |
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| Motto | In Sanctitate et Doctrina |
Motto in English | In Holiness and Learning |
| Type | Milwaukee , , 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 is a
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Milwaukee native Christy L. Brown was selected as the college's ninth president on April 19, 2023.[3]
History
Chartered in 1887 as St. Joseph's Normal School, Alverno became Alverno Teachers College in 1936. It adopted its current name in 1946.[4]
Academics
Alverno offers
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
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
- Socialist Partynominee 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 June 30, 2009. "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2009 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009" (PDF). 2009 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments. National Association of College and University Business Officers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-12-14. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
- ^ "About Alverno - Alverno College". Archived from the original on 2013-04-06. Retrieved 2013-04-09.
- ^ "Alverno President". www.alverno.edu. Archived from the original on 2023-05-28. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
- ^ Songe, Alice. American Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ: 1978), p. 6
- ^ "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.
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