The Chinese Language Flagship Center (CLFC) Director, Prof Song Jiang, Associate Director, Prof Li ‘Julie’ Jiang, the Program Coordinator Orion Young, and the GA Hsin-Tzu Jen led an orientation on September 5, 2022, welcoming current students and several incoming students – 23 students in total. Seventeen attended the event in person, held at a Center for Language and Technology multimedia conference room, with six other student attendees joining via Zoom. The other Chinese Flagship students who could not make it were sent the presentation slides, and goodie bags were handed-out as an afternoon snack for all in-person attendees.

All three UH ROTC programs’ commanding officers attended, several ROTC staff members, and even one cadet, and were given some time to promote their program. The Army ROTC even asked a native-Mandarin speaking graduate student/cadet to speak in Chinese to our CLFC students briefly. Prof S Jiang also used this opportunity to interact with all three commanding officers.