In 2005 Lin became head of National Taiwan Normal University's Department of Fine Arts and Graduate Institute of Fine Arts. By breaking through longstanding prejudices in academic circles that "devalue commercial applications of art while valuing art for art's sake," the appointment marked a major turning point in the history of fine arts in Taiwan.
2005 年，林磐聳接任台師大美術系主任暨所長一職，不僅打破了美術界一向「重藝術、輕應用」的傳統，抒解了自己多年來屈居美術殿堂邊緣角落的鬱悶，也標誌著台灣美術史上的一大轉折點。