| Alverno College | |
| Former Names: | St. Joseph's Normal School (1887–1936) Alverno Teachers College (1936–1946) |
| Motto: | In Sanctitate et Doctrina |
| Mottoeng: | In Holiness and Learning |
| Endowment: | $41.6 million[1] |
| Administrative Staff: | 450 |
| Faculty: | 118 |
| President: | Andrea Lee |
| Dean: | Kathleen O'Brien |
| Students: | 1,596 |
| Undergrad: | 788 |
| Postgrad: | 808 |
| Country: | United States |
| Mascot: | Blaze the Inferno |
| Sports Nickname: | Inferno |
| Religious Affiliation: | Roman Catholic (School Sisters of St. Francis) |
| Website: | www.alverno.edu |
Alverno College is a private Roman Catholic women's college in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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]
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]
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]
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]