Office of International Education Newsletter ISSUE 8, OCTOBER 2021
Dear Partner Agents and Friends,
A message from Mariko
We welcomed all students back to school in August with 100% in-person instruction this year! Despite U.S. Embassy closures worldwide and travel restrictions due to COVID-19, about 20 new international students from Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Italy, Spain, UAE, and Vietnam joined Kennedy Catholic High School this fall. We are so grateful that they chose Kennedy Catholic and traveled to the U.S. under these difficult conditions. We have been working to diversify our international enrollment in the last three years and thanks to our partner agents, country coordinators, and global Lancer family network, today, Kennedy Catholic’s International Education (IE) Office is supporting IE students from 10 different countries. We are still new to the global market and without your support, we could not continue to appreciate the benefits of diversity. We are all still going through challenging times but trying to be creative and maintain our strength as our economy recovers. Another challenging recruitment year has started, and we are sharing important recruitment activities in this newsletter. We want to work with you to overcome the challenges that we all face today. I personally wish to build our friendship and gain the trust of our many partners. In this newsletter, we would like to spotlight our international students’ engagement in the school events and activities. I can definitely feel the students’ energy and happiness on campus every day. It’s amazing to see how they are actively participating in school life this year. It’s as if they were in a hurry to make up for lost time. Compared to the past three years, more international students are participating in sports and clubs, IE student monthly lunch meetings, monthly field trips (Extraordinary Experiences), and other school
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