Alverno College is a private

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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.

Academics

Alverno offers

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programs and a coeducational

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program for

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s 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.

Athletics

Alverno College teams participate as a member of the

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. 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.

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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.

Alumni

* Diane Drufenbrock, Roman Catholic nun and

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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 Carole Emily Barrowman (born 20 April 1959) is a Scottish-American Professor of English and Director of Creative Studies in Writing at Alverno College, Milwaukee, and a reviewer and crime fiction columnist for the ''Milwaukee Sentinel'', also ...

, English professor and author

References

External links

Official website
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