Alverno College

Alverno College
Motto	In Sanctitate et Doctrina
Motto in English	In Holiness and Learning
Type	Private Roman Catholic Women's College
Established	1887
Affiliation	School Sisters of St. Francis (Roman Catholic Church)
Endowment	$16.7 million
Chairperson	Mary Beth Berkes
President	Sister Andrea Lee
Dean	Kathleen O'Brien
Academic staff	118
Administrative staff	450
Students	2,815
Undergraduates	2,387
Postgraduates	428
Address	3400 S. 43rd Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; 42°58′59″N 87°57′54″W / 42.983°N 87.965°WCoordinates: 42°58′59″N 87°57′54″W / 42.983°N 87.965°W
Nickname	Inferno
Website	www.alverno.edu

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Alverno College is a Roman Catholic, four-year, independent, liberal arts college, historically and still primarily a women's college located 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.^[3]

Educational programs[]

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.^[4]

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.^[5]

Alumni[]

Diane Drufenbrock, Roman Catholic nun and Socialist Party nominee for Vice President of the United States
Georgine Loacker, educator
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

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.
^ [1]^{[dead link]}
^ 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. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
^ Sharkey, Kaitlin (May 2, 2018). "'I feel a whole lot safer:' Alverno College Boxing Club builds self-confidence, camaraderie". Fox 6 Now. Retrieved 2019-09-03.

External links[]

Alverno College

[1] 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.

[2] [1]^{[dead link]}

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

[4] "Alverno's Grading System - Alverno College - Alverno College". www.alverno.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-29.

[5] Sharkey, Kaitlin (May 2, 2018). "'I feel a whole lot safer:' Alverno College Boxing Club builds self-confidence, camaraderie". Fox 6 Now. Retrieved 2019-09-03.

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Motto	In Sanctitate et Doctrina
Motto in English	In Holiness and Learning
Type	Private Roman Catholic Women's College
Established	1887
Affiliation	School Sisters of St. Francis (Roman Catholic Church)
Endowment	$16.7 million^[1]
Chairperson	Mary Beth Berkes
President	Sister Andrea Lee
Dean	Kathleen O'Brien
Academic staff	118
Administrative staff	450
Students	2,815 ^[2]
Undergraduates	2,387
Postgraduates	428
Address	3400 S. 43rd Street , Milwaukee , Wisconsin , United States 42°58′59″N 87°57′54″W / 42.983°N 87.965°W / 42.983; -87.965Coordinates: 42°58′59″N 87°57′54″W / 42.983°N 87.965°W / 42.983; -87.965
Nickname	Inferno
Website	www.alverno.edu