Alverno College Names Ann Romei Director of Residence Life

Ann Romei has been named director of residence life at Alverno College. In this role, she will provide leadership, supervision and direction for all aspects of residence life, respond to incidents and emergency situations, and work closely with other departments on recruitment and retention of residential students.

Romei comes to Alverno from the University of Missouri – Columbia where she was the resident hall coordinator. There she supervised student staff, served as a hearing officer for all university and residential life policy violations, participated in the crisis response rotation, and developed and maintained relationships with faculty and staff stakeholders. Prior to that she worked at Illinois Wesleyan University and the University of Mississippi in the offices of residential life.

Romei earned her Master of Arts Higher Education/Student Personnel from the University of Mississippi - Oxford and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penn.

About Alverno College

Alverno College, a four-year independent, Catholic, liberal arts college for women, exists to promote the personal and professional development of its students. The college has earned accolades and respect internationally for its highly effective ability-based, assessment-as-learning approach to education, and has consulted with three U.S. presidential administrations on accountability and outcomes in higher education. For the last six years, Alverno College was ranked one of the top five schools in the Midwest doing “the best job of educating undergrads” by U.S. News & World Report. Educators from throughout the world visit Alverno to learn about its proven, student-centered teaching methods.

Alverno offers more than 60 major areas of study, including graduate programs in education, nursing, community psychology and business that are open to women and men. For more information about Alverno, visit www.alverno.edu or call 414-382-6100.