FAQ

A. This year, with around 130 boarders, we have 12 full-time proctors, including 2 Head proctors. Their role is to help supervise activities, provide support for students, enforce dorm expectations for health and safety, and guide the student in their dorm life.  Their work and the program are overseen by the Director of Residential Life. 

A. Dorm students attend Evening Study five nights per week. This is a time when all dorm students study with guidance from teachers from the MS and HS as well as proctors.  Students also have access to our library facilities during Evening Study. In addition, students have access to music rooms, art rooms, and group study rooms at this time to work on all of their academic responsibilities.

Head proctors attend MS and HS student support meetings so both the school and dormitories are able to best support individual students.  Head proctors share this information, privately, with other proctors so we are all able to best support a student’s needs.  

A. We have nursing staff that live in the dorms and are on-call 24 hours, 7 days a week, in addition to their office hours each day (including weekends). Dorm students have access to full-time counselors at the school and the dorm staff is in regular communication with the nursing staff and the counseling staff to provide support for our students.

A. We are committed to the safety and well-being of all of our students at SJA Jeju. Through thoughtful expectations in the Residential Life Guidebook, proctors being a presence in the dorm, the nursing staff, and our relationship with our security team on campus we are prepared to help keep students safe during their time in the dorms.

A. We have many activities available. Dorm students are required to participate in the school's After School Activities (ASA) program, which consists of many teachers designed activities such as athletics, Model UN, Debate, Student Council, cooking classes, and more. In addition, we have regular weekend activities that include access to the school's athletic facilities, local hikes and bike rides, visits to Jeju museums and other cultural and historical landmarks, speakers, and more. Teachers from the school each plan 1-2 activities per semester and proctors plan many activities as well, often with student input.

In addition to these activities, in the dorms we have an Art Room, a Builders' Space with woodworking, small motors, and other creative opportunities, and we are in the process of adding a Clay Room for students to do stop motion animation, build, or sculpt with clay.  We also have a pool table, billiards table, ping pong and foosball tables, 8 lounges with access to watch movies, karaoke rooms, and a small 1300 volume library in the dormitories.  With access to our activities program, these facilities, as well as a track and field right outside the front doors to the dorms, students are never lacking for good activities to do.