Multicultural Development

Wheaton is committed to promoting the full flourishing of students of diverse backgrounds and provides opportunities for majority students to engage with issues of diversity. With resources such as the Office of Multicultural Development and the leadership of our Chief Intercultural Engagement Officer, our goal is to make Wheaton feel like home to students of every ethnicity.

We are committed to providing opportunities to address these issues first from the perspective of our unity in Christ. OMD works with the student organizations to provide multiple venues for fellowship, reflection, friendship, cultural celebration and addressing contemporary issues of diversity. Each of the organizations offer these venues out of gratitude for the gifts the Lord has given us in each of our distinct cultural backgrounds.


Culture-based Organizations

Unidad Cristiana, which means Christian Unity, strives to live out the full meaning of that name. We desire to come together through the unity that we have in Christ and out of that unity to celebrate and explore Latino cultures.

 

2023-2024 Unidad Application

The William Osborne Society exists to foster community among the Black students on campus as well as create opportunities for the Wheaton campus as a whole to learn about and experience Black Culture.

2023-2024 William Osborne Society Application

 

Multi-ethnic Organizations

1-2-1 provides upperclassmen that serve as mentors, encouragers, guides, and friends to first-year students.

 

2023-2024 1-2-1 Mentoring Program Application

 

The Gospel Choir's purpose is to worship and serve God and to spread His good news in song to "the nations" through black Gospel music.

Wheaton College Gospel Choir Online Store 

 

2023 -2024 Gospel Choir Application

 

 

The Shalom Community is a living and learning community born out of a partnership between Residence Life and the Office of Multicultural Development. It’s an opportunity for like-minded students to share their common interests as well as their living space as well.

 

2023-2024 Shalom Community Application

The OPT is responsible for cultivating and maintaining a creative space for community connection, within and outside of the college, but all within the multicultural community and Kingdom of God.

2023-2024 OMD Publishing Team (O.P.T) Application

Summit Scholars are students who received either the Don & Ann Church, Nieves, or BRIDGE Scholarships.  The Summit Scholars program exists to further the mission of Wheaton College by equipping these scholars in academics, leadership, discipleship, and vocation through a supportive community of faculty, staff, and peers.