Ware College House

About Ware College House

Ware is a House that constantly explores new ways to enlighten its residents. It is buzzing with programs, groups and committees that heighten the experience of being at Penn. The House sponsors trips to concerts, museums, performing arts events, amusement parks, shopping excursions and more. The Community Service Committee of the House Council facilitates tutoring opportunities in West Philadelphia and volunteering at Childrens' Hospital. Members of the House Council's Social Committee plan semi-formals, dances, gourmet coffee nights, and a wide range of activities.

Residents in Ware play hard but they also work hard. The original Ware Book Club was a small group of bibliophiles who met monthly for dinner at the House Dean Katherine Lowe's apartment until it became so popular that it evolved into the residential program Reader's Corner. The Entrepreneurs' Residential Program achieved its goal of creating a House cafe in fall 2002. The Women in Technology members participated in writing a grant to the Trustees' Council of Penn Women to support programs that introduce women to career and research opportunities in science and technology.

To add to their list of achievements, the Ware staff developed a powerful mentoring project to help students with introductory courses in computer science, engineering and physics. This "Penn Mentoring Program" has been so successful it is now a part of the Wheel Academic Services and is available to any undergraduate taking the supported courses, which now include chemistry and economics. All of this success spawned yet another idea— partnering with the Computer Science faculty to help launch CSE 100, a credit course on technological literacy that became a House seminar.

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