Messages from the Chair of the Board of Trustees

Messages from Jamie Levitt, Interim Chair of the Board of Trustees, addressing the Cooper Union community are collected below.

Position Description for the President of Cooper Union -- November 26, 2024

Messages from Malcolm King, Chair of the Board of Trustees, addressing the Cooper Union community are collected below.

Update on the Office of Student Affairs -- Aug 2, 2024

Update on the Office of the President -- July 17, 2024

Progress Update on the Plan to Return to Full Tuition Scholarships -- June 20, 2024

New Year's Message -- Dec 30, 2023

End of Year Message -- Dec 30, 2022

End of Year Message -- Dec 21, 2021

  • 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.