Leadership
Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C.
Vice President for Student Affairs
Rev. Mark Poorman, C.S.C., was elected vice president for student affairs by Notre Dame's Board of Trustees in April 1999. He had served the previous two years in the University's administration as executive assistant to, first, the executive vice president and then the president.
As vice president for student affairs, Father Poorman is responsible for campus ministry, student residences, residence life, multicultural and international student affairs, student activities, Notre Dame security/police, the University counseling center, University health services, career and placement services, alcohol and drug education, and the gender relations center.
A native of Phoenix, Father Poorman graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois in 1976. He received a Master of Divinity degree from Notre Dame four years later and was ordained a priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1982. He spent the next three years at Notre Dame, serving as rector of Dillon Hall and associate director of Campus Ministry. He earned his Ph.D. in Christian ethics at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, in 1990.
Father Poorman joined the Notre Dame Theology faculty in 1990. As associate professor of theology, his teaching and research concern moral theology and its pastoral applications. His undergraduate courses survey contemporary issues in Christian ethics, and his graduate courses are concerned with Christian ethics, Catholic moral teaching and pastoral practice. He directed the Theology Department's Master of Divinity program from 1992-99. Among the subjects on which he has written and lectured are medical ethics, sexuality, Christian ministry, and Catholic higher education. He is the author of Interactional Morality (Georgetown Press) and editor of Labors from the Heart (Notre Dame Press), a collection of essays on mission and ministry at Notre Dame.
He serves on the Board of Trustees for Stonehill College, Board of Regents at the University of Portland, Board of Governors at University of Notre Dame-Australia, and Board of Trustees for St. Joseph Regional Medical Center.
Father Poorman resides on campus in Keough Hall, a student residence.
