Retiree
Stonehill College
Easton
MA
Biographical Sketch: Eileen O’Leary is the Assistant VP, Student Financial Assistance at Stonehill College where she has worked for over 30 years. She received her undergraduate degree from Stonehill and her EdM from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is currently NASFAa Past-National Chair. She previously served as Chair of the National Direct Student Loan Coalition , and President of the Massachusetts Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (MASFAA). She is a member of the Massachusetts Office of Student Financial Assistance Advisory Board and of the New England Board of Higher Education’s recent Regional Advisory Council. A member of numerous professional association committees and task forces over her career, she has served as a negotiator on two Federal Negotiated Rulemaking panels and the College Board’s CSS College Scholarship Service Council. She is the recipient of NASFAA’s Allan Purdy Distinguished Service Award, the MASFAA Jack Sheehan Award for Distinguished Service, and the College Board’s Jolene Mitchell Service Award.