Student Care and Support

Students wishing to connect with resources provided by The Cooper Union / Student Care can follow links above, or reach out directly to the Student Care team via email at studentcare@cooper.edu to schedule an appointment to talk further about their individual needs. 

If there are concerns about a student within our community, please reach out to Student Care immediately via email (studentcare@cooper.edu) or alert one of the three security desks. Appropriate staff will be notified. 

  • 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.