Tony Oleck, M.T.S.

Biography

Tony Oleck has served as the Advisor to the Vice President for Student Affairs since June 2021. In this capacity, he provides leadership and support to a wide-range of strategic initiatives and priorities on behalf of the Office of the Vice President, including those related to strategic planning, external engagement, new student matriculation, centralized student and staff formation programs, academic integration, and strategic partnerships and relations. He also provides support for the Vice President’s engagements and special projects.

Oleck returned to Student Affairs from the Office of Mission Engagement and Church Affairs, where he served as Advisor the Vice President and assisted the Office in its work of deepening the University’s Catholic, Holy Cross mission and stewarding its relationships to the Catholic Church.

Previously, Oleck held several roles in Notre Dame’s Office of Residential Life. He served as the inaugural Assistant Director for Off-campus and Transitions, where he was responsible for the expansion of resources and support for off-campus students and coordinating the move-in and move-out processes in all on-campus residence halls. Concurrently, Mr. Oleck supervised a team of Community Assistants as Coordinator of Programming and Community Life at Fischer Graduate Residences. As an Assistant Director, he also participated in Division-wide efforts to articulate the nature of the undergraduate residence hall experience. Oleck also helped to establish Dunne Hall, then Notre Dame’s newest men’s residence hall, serving as its first full-time Assistant Rector.

Oleck graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor's degree in history and theology with a philosophy minor. He also earned a master’s degree in theological studies from Notre Dame, during which time he served for two years as Assistant Rector in Fisher Hall.