Alverno College
Catholic women's college in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Alverno College is a private Roman Catholic women's college in 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 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.
- ^ "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.
External links
- Official website
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institutions
- Alverno
- Beloit
- Carroll
- Carthage
- Concordia
- Edgewood
- Lakeland
- Lawrence
- Maranatha
- Marian
- Marquette
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
- Milwaukee School of Engineering
- Mount Mary
- Northland
- Ripon
- St. Norbert
- The School of Architecture at Taliesin
- Viterbo
- Wisconsin Lutheran
- Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology
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