Currently, 90 percent tuition refund will be granted for withdrawal requests for any reason received in writing one working day before the program start date, as listed in the official SAL calendar. Starting January 1, 2011, the rate will be changed from 90 percent to 85 percent tuition refund.

It is important to note that this policy is applicable to students who are planning to register for courses that begin after January 1, 2011.

SAL’s Student Activity Club (S.A.C) hosted the first annual International Food Festival this September 2009. It was held in the Fall since it is also the season of the Asian “moon festival which shows appreciation for harvests in the fall,” Sunny Yu (the S.A.C. Faculty Coordinator) explained. Sunny Yu said that the idea for this event came about when “Tina (Wei-Ting) Peng, one of the S.A.C. members, suggested having a ‘Foreign Cooking Party.’

” Thirteen international dishes were served including: Chinese dry noodles, Chinese tofu, Taiwanese tea eggs, Thai mango sticky rice, Japanese chicken and pork katsu, American brownies, Russian borsch (beet soup), Indian garbanzo bean pilaf, Vietnamese spring rolls, Korean rolls, Korean noodles, Korean seafood pancakes, and Mexican chips and salsa.