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Alumna honors parents with endowed scholarship & planned gift

Alumna honors parents with endowed scholarship & planned gift

This year, Rose (Purpero) Spang ’62 will celebrate the 63rd anniversary of graduating from Alverno College. During the holidays, she gets together with 15 friends from the Class of 1962.…

Community Day is a Beloved Tradition

Community Day is a Beloved Tradition

Every year since 2000, Alverno cancels classes for a day so that students, faculty and staff can participate in Community Day, a day set aside for service. Since its inception, over 8,000 stud…

Empowering Special Ed Teachers

Empowering Special Ed Teachers

The Department of Education awarded Alverno a five-year, $1.24 million grant to train diverse personnel to work at minority-serving institutions with children with disabilities, allowing the C…

Lifting People Up

Lifting People Up

Business owner, writer, speaker, trainer, author, coach — Erica Gumieny ’00 does it all. The focus of her business, Pivotal Point, LLC, is to connect, invigorate and inspire her cl…

An Investment That Opens Opportunities

An Investment That Opens Opportunities

When Brooke Wegner ’99 MA ’03 first graduated from Alverno, she never imagined she would build an entire career in higher education. But Wegner spent more than 20 years working in…

Experimenting With STEM

Experimenting With STEM

Most high school juniors and seniors don’t opt to spend a week of their summer vacation at a science camp, but for five local teenagers, it was an opportunity they couldn’t pass up…

Never too Late

Never too Late

Pursuing a degree can be tough, especially when more than a decade has passed since graduating from high school. But Christy Peterson ’03 not only found the motivation to apply to colleg…

Gaining Confidence and Compassion

Gaining Confidence and Compassion

Sometimes pursuing a degree can seem out of reach, especially when you have a full-time job, but Susan Berna ’93 found the right fit at Alverno. Despite a lack of understanding and suppo…

Formula for Success

Formula for Success

Most people who want to change the world don’t pursue chemistry as a means to do that, but Shivani Brahmbhatt ’24 knew that this was the path for her. Inspired to help others throu…

Helping One Helps Many

Helping One Helps Many

Alverno is an inclusive, vibrant community of students, faculty and staff who support and uplift each other. So when alum Dr. Mary Ann Schwartz ’62 learned about the opportunity to suppo…

Journey of Empowerment

Journey of Empowerment

Whether she’s helping students navigate their educational journeys and career paths, or advocating for those in underrepresented communities, Alejandra Anastas ’20 is passionate ab…

Personalized Mentorship for Business Students

Personalized Mentorship for Business Students

Alverno’s innovative new three-year business degree program is not only helping undergraduate students graduate more quickly, it’s also giving them a unique opportunity to learn fr…