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University student groups allowed to hold in-person meetings beginning Tuesday

Observer Staff Report | Saturday, March 6, 2021

Official University student groups and organizations may resume meeting in-person Tuesday, vice president for student affairs Erin Hoffmann Harding and vice president for campus safety and University operations Mike Seamon announced in an email Friday night. “With Notre Dame’s seven-day moving average of positive case counts declining, we are happy to follow up on last

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Erin Hoffmann Harding discusses Campus Compact, spring semester changes during special senate meeting

Claire Rafford | Thursday, January 28, 2021

Vice president for student affairs Erin Hoffmann Harding joined a special session of the student senate to discuss the newly announced Campus Compact and address changes to surveillance testing and due process for the spring semester Wednesday. “Everything that we have been reflecting on since you’ve been away from campus has been designed to do

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Notre Dame to require weekly surveillance testing for spring semester, introduces new coronavirus code of conduct

Observer Staff Report | Thursday, January 21, 2021

This report was updated Jan. 22 at 9:05 p.m. The University will alter its COVID-19 response to include weekly surveillance testing and has adopted a supplemental code of conduct to discipline students who fail to abide by the health and safety guidelines, leadership in the Division of Student Affairs announced Thursday. Weekly surveillance testing will

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Student Affairs names 8 ND student award recipients

Emily Hannon | Friday, May 15, 2020

Although the Division of Student Affairs was unable to host its annual Student Leadership Awards Banquet due to the outbreak of COVID-19, eight students are being recognized for their commitment to Notre Dame and the contributions they have made in their time as an undergraduate. Eric Kim, a marketing and film, television and theatre double

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Senate discusses ‘senior exclusion policy’ plans with sophomore class council president

Jack Jerit | Tuesday, December 3, 2019

In its weekly meeting Wednesday, the Notre Dame student senate met to discuss the upcoming changes to residential policies announced last spring by the Division of Student Affairs — specifically, the “senior exclusion policy” which would prevent seniors living off campus from participating in hall sports teams, hall dances and other events. Daniel Feldmeier, sophomore

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University provides updates on Title IX process

Natalie Weber | Friday, October 4, 2019

The University moved its Title IX office to the Office of Institutional Equity this summer and has been preparing for national changes to Title IX rules by submitting a public comment on new proposed regulations. University administrators said the Student Title IX Service’s move will have little impact on how Notre Dame handles cases of

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‘It keeps us young’: Faculty-in-residence discuss living with students on campus

Chelsey Boyle | Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Bustling with hundreds of students, residence halls at Notre Dame are usually distinguished for their distinct senses of community. What’s less discussed, however, are the few yearly returning members not typically associated with dorm life. In an effort to foster more interaction between students and faculty, the Division of Student Affairs launched a faculty-in-residence program

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Over 1,000 students gather outside Main Building to protest new Residential Life policies

Thomas Murphy | Monday, April 15, 2019

In an email sent to the student body early Thursday morning, the Office of Residential Life and the Division of Student Affairs announced changes in residential policies as a means of improving the dorm experience for students now required to stay on campus for six semesters and to incentivize seniors to stay on campus for their

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University announces residential life updates, incentives for staying on campus

Claire Rafford | Thursday, April 11, 2019

The University announced in fall 2017 that — beginning with the class of 2022 – students would be required to live on campus for six semesters. As part of this statement, the Office of Residential Life also said they would be brainstorming incentives for Notre Dame students to stay on campus for their senior year. Now, the

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Seniors presented with awards from Division of Student Affairs

Alexandra Muck | Friday, May 18, 2018

At the 32nd annual Student Leadership Awards Banquet on April 10, seven graduating seniors were recognized for their contributions to the campus community, a University press release on April 18 said. Flora Tang received the Rev. A. Leonard Collins, C.S.C. Award, which is given to a “senior who has made substantial personal efforts to advance the

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