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Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Fr. Pete McCormick was promoted as the inaugural assistant vice president for campus ministry, with three other campus ministry employees promoted to director roles. McCormick’s new title, along with the promotion of three other campus ministry professionals, was announced Tuesday by director of communications for the division of student affairs Kate Morgan. McCormick, who was
Liam Price | Thursday, March 3, 2022
Notre Dame’s student senate convened Wednesday on the second floor of the LaFortune Student Center. The meeting featured resolutions to bestow emeritus status on student body vice president Matthew Bisner and off campus president Thomas Davis and to commend the Division of Student Affairs for their work to provide housing for Gateway students in the
Bella Laufenberg | Monday, September 6, 2021
As Fr. Gerard (Gerry) Olinger C.S.C. starts his position as Notre Dame’s new Vice President of Student Affairs, he intends to listen to concerns of the university before forming a plan of action. Born and raised outside of Philadelphia, PA, Olinger is the oldest of four siblings and has three younger sisters — one being
Evan McKenna | Friday, August 20, 2021
Notre Dame will begin its Welcome Week programming Friday, inviting thousands of new students onto the University’s campus. Included in these numbers are 189 transfer students, joining the student body from colleges and universities across the country, across the world and right in South Bend. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting uncertainties regarding admissions,
Alysa Guffey | Monday, June 7, 2021
In 2005, Fr. John Jenkins, a former professor of Erin Hoffmann Harding, was elected president of the University of Notre Dame. That same year, Jenkins invited Hoffmann Harding to work alongside him at the University. “I came back really in a very direct way to try to serve the alma mater that I had loved
Isabella Volmert | Friday, May 21, 2021
Every spring, the Division of Student affairs honors exceptional student leaders at the Student Leadership Awards banquet. The 35th annual event, held on April 13 in the Dahnke Ballroom and over Zoom, recognized seven members of the class of 2021 as leaders in the Notre Dame community and beyond. Odalis Gonzalez Reyes was the recipient
Observer Staff Report | Monday, May 10, 2021
University President Fr. John Jenkins has named Fr. Gerard Olinger vice president for student affairs, according to a Monday morning press release. Olinger, who currently serves as vice president for mission engagement and Church affairs, will begin his new role June 1. Olinger replaces Erin Hoffmann Harding, who recently announced she would step down from
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
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
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