Alverno College
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3400 S. 43rd St. Milwaukee, WI 53219-4844 WI Tel. 414-382-6000 Toll Free 800-933-3401 Fax 414-382-6354 |
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http://www.alverno.edu
Alverno College is an independent liberal arts institution with an enrollment of more than 2,300 undergraduates and about 350 graduate students. It confers associate's, bachelor's, and master's degrees in more than 60 areas of study at four schools: Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, and Nursing. Matriculating only women in its undergraduate programs, Alverno accepts men as graduate students. Alverno takes its name from a mountain in Italy (La Verna) that was given to St. Francis as a gift and used by his followers as a place of reflection. The school was founded by the School Sisters of St. Francis in 1887.
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| Alverno College | |
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 Alverno College Seal |
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| Motto | In Sanctitate et Doctrina |
| Motto in English | In Holiness and Learning |
| Established | 1887 |
| Type | Private Roman Catholic Women's College |
| Religious affiliation | School Sisters of St. Francis (Roman Catholic Church) |
| Endowment | $16.7 million[1] |
| President | Mary J. Meehan, Ph.D |
| Dean | Kathleen O'Brien, SSSF |
| Academic staff | 118 |
| Admin. staff | 450 |
| Students | 2,815 [2] |
| Undergraduates | 2,387 |
| Postgraduates | 428 |
| Location | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA |
| Nickname | Inferno |
| Mascot | "Blaze" |
| Website | www.alverno.edu |
Alverno College is a Roman Catholic, four-year, independent, liberal arts college, historically and still primarily a women's college located 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.[3]
Alverno offers weekday and weekend undergraduate programs, as well as 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. Men who are not pursuing a degree at Alverno can take courses within both the graduate and undergraduate programs.
Alverno has a student-centered approach to education, relying on lengthy and highly personalized performance assessment systems that provide feedback for students to use as they learn and develop. The school offers ability-based education focusing on eight areas of development: communication, analysis, problem solving, valuing, social interaction, developing a global perspective, effective citizenship, and aesthetic response.
This institution has outpaced colleges and universities on the National Survey of Student Engagement, a survey of students nationwide to determine whether they are actively and progressively engaged in their studies. Alverno College is ranked in the top tier of US News & World Report's America's Best Colleges, and in 5 of 8 national categories in their Programs that Work section.[citation needed] Alverno College was awarded the MacArthur Foundation's "Genius Award" in the 1990s,[citation needed] and continues to attract national attention for its work on learning outcomes and accountability of higher education.
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- ^ 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. http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2009_NCSE_Public_Tables_Endowment_Market_Values.pdf. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
- ^ Alverno College Quick Facts
- ^ Songe, Alice. American Universities and Colleges: A Dictionary of Name Changes. Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ: 1978), p. 6
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