THE UNION WE NEED NOW

THE UNION WE NEED NOW

Your generosity makes the student experience possible at The Cooper Union - every discovery made, every artwork created, every structure designed. It all begins with U. 

Today we're asking for your continued support to help restore Peter Cooper's founding vision: The Cooper Union as a free center of learning, open to the talent and potential regardless of financial means. 

There was never any question that the Cooper community would stand up for students. So many alumni and friends have already stepped forward to support the plan to restore full tuition scholarships. 

Now, to stay on track with that plan, we must raise $750,000 by December 31. Reaching this goals keeps progress steady and ensures students can focus on learning, creating, and pushing boundaries - supported by a community that believes in them. 

Will you make your year-end, tax-deductible gift to The Cooper Union and help strengthen the Union we need now?

Our students are counting on U.

 
 

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.