As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to spread, Soochow University established an epidemic prevention team at the first emergency meeting on January 28th, 2020 in accordance with the policies of the Ministry of Education. The school has also set up an "epidemic prevention section" on its Chinese official website to provide faculty, staff, students and parents with the latest information, including educational measures, dorm policies, and related announcements, etc.

On December 1st, 2019, seventeen SCU student clubs gave performance for the local community charity show at Shilin Official Residence. In cooperation with the Residence’s Chrysanthemum Exhibition, Soochow’s United Board (UB) Campus and Community Services Learning Program organized this event which aimed to serve and bring fun to local citizens.

Sixty-two undergraduate students of Soochow University received grants for the “College Student Research Projects” from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), with a passing rate of approximately 45%, which was higher than the national average of 40%.

These students will be entitled to a monthly subsidy of NT$6,000 from July 1st, 2019 till February 29th, 2020, with a total of NT$48,000 in eight months. The list of the 62 grant receivers is as follows:

Over 200 Soochow Alumni from around the world celebrated the University’s third global alumni annual reunion in Bangkok, Thailand, from August 16 to August 20, 2019. The event not only aimed to consolidate the bond of the school’s 130 thousand alumni, but also served as a warm-up for Soochow’s 120th anniversary celebration in the coming 2020.

According to the latest results released by Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT) on June 28th, 2019, Soochow University passed all four categories in the university institutional accreditation for the second semester of 2018-19 academic year. The four categories for evaluation include: institutional governance & management, institutional resources and support system, institutional effectiveness, and self-enhancement and sustainable development.

Thirty-seven original works, mostly created by Soochow University’s students, have begun to be showcased at SCU’s two campuses, as the school unveiled its second augmented reality (AR) arts festival starting September 25, 2018. And the organizer SCU Tomorrow Hub (T Hub) has connected this year’s event as one of the exhibition sites of Taipei’s street art show “Nuit Blanche Taipei” (白晝之夜).

A teacher and four students from Soochow’s School of Big Data Management won top honor in the 2018 Highway Public Transport Planning Competition held by Directorate General of Highways. The SCU team defeated all other teams with their project “Yilan Regional Tourism and Mass Transportation Integration Platform Design—Environmental Travelling Monopoly Game, and won the championship along with the prize of 200,000 TWD.

On September 13th , 2018, SCU President Wei-Ta Pan signed an agreement memo for overseas paid internship projects with Zheng-Hong Li (李政宏), president of Shanghai Taiwan Compatriot Investment Enterprise Association (SHTA) (上海市臺灣同胞投資企業協會) at Waishuangshi Campus.

A group of friends gather in front of a poster for International Week, discussing to which study abroad program they would like to apply. This scene happens repeatedly on the second week of every semester, which shows that a growing number of students are choosing to study abroad and broaden their global perspectives.