This August 26 marked an important milestone in the history of NTU's architectural development. It was the day the College of Social Sciences celebrated its relocation to the newly-constructed Social Sciences Building on the university's Main Campus.

Speaking during the building's inauguration ceremony that day, COSS Dean Hui-Lin Lin expressed excitement over the college's relocation to the modernfacilities on NTU's Main Campus while at the same time conveying mixed emotions about leaving the old building which had served the college's students and faculty for 70 years.

Dean Lin also expressed appreciation for the efforts of all of those who had been involved in the planning, design, and construction of the new building. She added that she expects the college's new home to bring the college as a whole closer together, and that she anticipates as wellthat the new location will make possible new interdisciplinary research in collaboration with faculty of other colleges on the Main Campus.

The College of Social Sciences had been located on NTU's Downtown Campus on Hsu-Chow Road since 1947. Over those decades, only a handful of the college's classrooms and offices were located on the Main Campus.