Parents Council

The Cooper Union Parents Council serves as the voice for parents of current students and graduates that are dedicated to securing essential support for the college by helping to maintain the tradition of the full-tuition scholarship by building from the past, engaging the present and ensuring the future.

The Parents Council meets on campus four to six times throughout the year. Meetings focus on identifying parent interests, developing strategies for acquiring financial support for the Annual Fund and coordinating communication with fellow Cooper Union parents. Parents are actively involved in various Cooper Union activities, including a major role in the annual Phonathon.

We encourage all parents to join the Parents Council where you will meet other parents committed to the future of The Cooper Union. It's your opportunity to give back to the college that has given your child such a wonderful opportunity.

For more information, please email parents@cooper.edu.

Join the Parents Council on Facebook

Click here to read about the Fall, 2012 Parents Day.

Please click here to access the Parents Handbook, a resource directory of the East Village.

Ways to contribute to Cooper Union

 

  • 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.