Theme Houses at Wheaton College are Residential Life communities comprised of undergraduate students.  They apply to live together with a common purpose or passion and collaboratively share their theme with the larger Wheaton community.  Through the diversity of their personal experiences and academic pursuits they strive to enrich both their own and their fellow students’ co-curricular and academic learning.  They are an active and available resource raising awareness to the Wheaton Community.

Houses provide the residents the experience of more independent living:  While the Honor Code and Residential Life Community Standards are still in effect, students practice more self-governance in a house environment.

2011-12 Theme Houses:

Bittersweet House has been designated as the LGBTQ “Safe house” for the 2011-2012 academic year.

President: Elaine Grulke
Advisor: Nadia Omar

Elms House has been designated as the "Outdoors Education House" for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Co-Presidents: Patty Kaishian and Sam Obstfeld
Advisor: Matthew Evans

The Guest House has been designated as the “Dialogue in the Middle East” house for the 2011-2012 academic year.

President: Alex Lelchuk
Advisor:

22 Howard Street will be the “Whole Wheaton House Living” for the 2011-2012 academic year.

President: Christine Dyster
Advisor: Craig Andrade

44 Howard Street will be the "House of the Living Arts (HOLA)" for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Co-Presidents: Hannah Allen and Angelica Sullam
Advisor: Andrew Howard

11 Howard has been designated as the "Renaissance" house for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Co-Presidents: Brittany Watts and Rasheeda Abdul-Musawwir
Advisors: Raquel Ramos

5/7 Pine has been designated as the "Peace and World Consciousness" house for the 2011-2012 academic year.

President: Molly Skaltsis
Advisor: Dolita Cathcart

Davis House has been designated as the "UWC-United World College" house for the 2011-2012 academic year.

President: Vlad Stadnyk
Advisor: Alfredo Varela

9 Taunton Avenue has been designated as the "ECCO" house for the 2011-2012 academic year.

President: Adriana Mistick
Advisor: Barbara Darling-Smith

The Ecco House's focus is on bringing a sustainable way of life to our community and the Wheaton community through ecological, spiritual, social, and academic means.

• Ecologically, the members bring mindfulness to daily practices within the house by using Eco friendly cleaning products, collecting gray water from sinks and showers to flush the toilet, conserving energy, and experimenting with different food composting methods.
• Spiritually, the house celebrates the natural cycles of life by restoring a healthy relationship with the earth and all beings. Drawing on many inclusive religious and spiritual rituals that bring awareness to the ecological crisis in the world.
• Socially, students in the ECCO house place a great importance on being a supportive community for each other and the Wheaton campus as a whole, by sharing various responsibilities equally as well as hosting a monthly potluck open to the Wheaton community.