Specifically, Student Activities partners with student-coordinated, student-led organizations to help foster student leadership, creativity, enthusiasm and energy that serve as the impetus for programming and service to the student body. Through this context, the Student Activities Office provides a training ground that enhances students’ understanding of their identity and develops their giftedness. Additionally, the Department provides continuity for student organizations and clubs from year to year; educates students about campus policy; establishes service-focused purposes, vision and goals; exemplifies stewardship of resources (time, skills, finances, facilities); emphasizes loving others, conflict resolution, effective communication and building community; encourages innovation and responsibility in program and policy implementation; and encourages students to grow in their capacity to effectively link faith, theory and practice in concrete settings.

OUR MISSION
Through mobilizing students in diverse out-of-the classroom experiences to shape the campus culture, the Student Activities Office is committed to challenging students to explore and develop a realistic sense of self-understanding, to live effectively in community and to grow in understanding their giftedness.

College Union: to promote a sense of Christian community and shape campus culture by providing Christ-centered campus-wide programs and opportunities for building friendships.
Orientation Committee: to welcome new students and assist them in making a successful transition to the academic and cultural environment of Wheaton College.
Student Government: to serve as the official voice of students in academic, institutional, and campus affairs and provide services and programs that respond to campus needs and interests.
Solidarity Cabinet : to transform students by raising an awareness of race, ethnic and cultural issues and mobilize them to live out the gospel message of reconciliation.
Clubs and Organizations: to equip students to pursue a wide range of interests and concerns, offering experiences such as fund-raising, public relations, organization, administration, and budgeting.
Event Scheduling Management: to provide and manage a centralized source of information for scheduling of planned event dates, times, and facilities.
Todd M. Beamer Student Center: to serve as a center for the campus community; a centralized co-curricular and social gathering place—a family room for the College, a space for students to “hang-out”—as well as provide services, offices and educational and recreational programs that enhance the quality of college life.

OUR FOUNDATION
Proverbs 11:3 “The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
Micah 6:8 “…and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your god?”
Mathew 18:15-16 “If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”
Romans 12:3 “For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.”
Romans 12:10 “Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.”
John 13:14 “Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should
Wash one another’s feet.”
Hebrews 10:24 “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good
deeds.”
Philippians 2:4 “Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.”
James 5:16 “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.”
II Peter 1:3 “His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence."

OUR STAFF
Steve Ivester, Director
Katie Gieser, Assistant Director
Karen King, Events Scheduling Manager
Nancy Kapp, Administrative Services Coordinator
Deanna Ingerham, Beamer Center Building Manager
Chip Sanders, Student Activities/Residence Life Graduate Assistant