René Sandy Diaz

Administrative Manager for Academic Affairs

Sandy serves as the Administrative Manager to the Vice President for Academic Affairs. He has accrued extensive and progressive student and academic affairs experience at both New York University and Touro University.

While at NYU, Sandy earned his Master of Arts in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Ever-curious of the people and world around him, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, cum laude, from Hunter College. Born in the Dominican Republic, he currently lives in the Bronx with his (four-legged) daughter Perrie.

  • 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.