Social Responsibility
Social Responsibility is Wheaton shorthand for civic engagement, global citizenship and constructive political action. SSSR promotes political dialogue--not diatribe--and student-initiated social activism through leadership development, training in community organizing, and ample opportunities to explore critical political and social issues from a broad range of ideological perspectives.
In this richly diverse learning community, nurturing the ability to build unlikely coalitions and to engage in rigorous and respectful political dialogue -- especially with people whose experience and opinions differ dramatically from one's own -- are among SSSR's most important functions. Few skills will be more important to our students as they prepare to embrace the complex world they are soon to inherit.