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Cooper Union Institute

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
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The Cooper Union's Foundation Building, at Cooper Square and Astor Place
Type Private
Established 1859
Endowment $738 million (2015)
Chairman Rachel L. Warren
President Laura Sparks
Dean Nader Tehrani (Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture)
Mike Essl (acting, School of Art)
Richard Stock (acting, Albert Nerkin School of Engineering)
Academic staff
56 (full time)
Students 900-950
Location Manhattan, New York City, NY
Campus Urban
Colors Maroon and Gold          
Affiliations AICAD, ABET
Website

www.cooper.edu

The Cooper Union
Location Cooper Square
Manhattan, New York City
Built 1858–59
Architect F.A. Peterson
NRHP Reference # 66000540
Significant dates
Added to NRHP October 15, 1966
Designated NHL July 4, 1961
Designated NYCL March 15, 1966
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Coordinates: 40°43′45″N 73°59′26″W / 40.72927°N 73.99058°W / 40.72927; -73.99058

www.cooper.edu

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union or The Cooper Union and informally referred to, especially during the 19th century, as "the Cooper Institute", is a privately funded college located in Cooper Square in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Inspired in 1830 when Peter Cooper learned about the government-supported École Polytechnique in France, Cooper Union was established in 1859. The school was built on a radical new model of American higher education based on founder Peter Cooper's fundamental belief that an education "equal to the best technology schools [then] established" should be accessible to those who qualify, independent of their race, religion, sex, wealth or social status, and should be "open and free to all". The Cooper Union originally granted each admitted student a full-tuition scholarship. Following its own financial crisis, the school decided to abandon this policy starting in the Fall of 2014, but each incoming student receives at least a half-tuition merit scholarship. A consent decree brokered by the New York Attorney General in New York Supreme Court, and finalized in 2015, required the establishment of a Free Education Committee with the responsibility to present a strategic plan, no later than January 15, 2018, for consideration by the school's Board of Trustees, who would then vote on it at their Board meeting in March 2018, to allow the school to return to a sustainable tuition-free model.


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