Cooper Union

Counseling and Mental Health Services

The Office of Student Affairs maintains partnerships with local providers for counseling, mental health and related supportive services.

The Student Care team is available to meet with students to provide support and to discuss mental health and counseling needs. The Student Care team can be reached at studentcare@cooper.edu or at 212.353.4130. Our office is generally open Monday – Friday, from 9AM - 5PM.

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.