Indiana Statesman For ISU students. About ISU students. By ISU students.
Volume 122, Issue 50
Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015
Perone assists student in solving problems Adler Ingalsbe Reporter Indiana State University’s Al Perone has been helping students and staff with any problems that may occur in their lives and has found joy in assisting them with anything he can do. Perone is the current ombudsperson at ISU, a position described as someone who provides assistance to students who may have problems that need to be dealt with. He describes himself as a “student problem-solver.” “Any student with any issue can contact me. Issues usually fall into the following categories: personal, academic, behavioral or financial,” Perone said. “I work with students and staff to resolve these issues. Some issues are caused by the students or staff and others have issues thrust upon them.” Perone fulfills a number of other positions at Indiana State, including serving on a multitude of committees and teaching University 101 each fall, though he’s still available to help students and faculty members in need. “In the spring, I have been involved with the alternative spring break trips, where I have chaperoned at least a dozen trips. This spring I will be going to Costa Rica with a few dozen students,” Perone said. Even though he serves these roles today, this isn’t the first year he’s been involved with
ISU. He attended ISU as an undergraduate and became a faculty member the year after. “I attended as a student from 1977 to 1981 to achieve a BS in Business Administration and from 1981-1984 for a masters in Student Affairs in Higher Education. I then became a full-time employee at the University in 1984 and have held the following positions: Residence Hall director, assistant to the Dean of Students, assistant director of Student Life Programs, director of Student Activities and Organizations and now associate dean of Students/Ombudsperson,” Perone said. Perone said he’s been influenced by many different people throughout his career. “To name one person [who has influenced me] would be impossible. There have been many people that have been a great influence in my career from my family, to my colleagues, my supervisors and my many mentors at ISU and across the country,” Perone said. Perone said a few specific people have helped him at different points in his life — from growing up, to being a student and now to being a professional. “My sister was a huge influence on me growing and attending school. While in college, Ed Pease and George Redfearn were advisors to my fraternity and had a major impact on my career choice to stay in higher education.”
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Al Perone thrives in helping students with any types of issues or problems that may occur (Photo by ISU Communications and marketing).
Perone said. “As a developing professional, I’ve continued to be influenced by Ed Pease, but Dr. Bob Elsey was a supervisor that taught me more about being a professional, Reid Kidder taught me how to be a great influence without steering the ship, while Will Keim taught me how to understand students and use my passion for students to guide me.” Now after years of being influenced by so many people,
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Perone is now the one helping influence people’s lives by helping them solve their problems. “I think the biggest help I am for students is that I listen to them and ask them questions. I try to get students to solve their own problems. I teach them how to navigate the university and only step in and become more involved when they are up against a wall,” he said.
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Indiana State University is thinking about going coed for the dorm rooms in the future, but will start with the University Apartments to test it out. Many universities in the U.S. have decided to let men and women become roommates in the new coed dorm room decision. According to NBCNews.com the colleges who have already started the coed dorm room change are Wesleyan University, Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Oberlin College, Clark University and Stanford University. As of right now the only dorms that are coed at Indiana State are Hines, Jones, Erickson, Burford and Pickerl halls, which are only coed by floor. However, in the next few years that could all change. Jeff Kortman, the Residential Life assistant director, gave information on what Indiana State has planned as far as coed dorm rooms. “We are going to be doing some test piloting [for] some things with [coed rooms] here over the next couple of years,” Kortman said, “specifically gearing toward our upperclassmen in the University Apartments.” This plan is going to be beneficial for students and incoming students who may be transgendered, or do not really have a gender to identify with. The school is planning on being gender-flexible. “We are experiencing a lot more of those students not on our campus, but COED CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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