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ISSO Fall 2024 Enrolled Student Events

Sprintax Tax Virtual Webinar (ongoing)
Sprintax Nonresident Tax Webinar Recording- Taxes due April 14th (free tax code to all international students will be emailed out week of Feb.1st
Description: Sprintax will provide a virtual workshop for international students/Scholars. You will find useful tax information such as what to expect during employment or receipt of US income, tax obligations for non-residents in the USA as well as preparing you in advance for tax filing season.

ISSO F-1 student Employment Info session 
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 41CS Room 104 (12:00pm – 1:00pm)

This is an Info session on all employment options available for F-1 students, and how to attain a social security number. RSVP here

 

ISSO & Engineering 1st year seminar - Mid-Semester Check-In/ lunch

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 - 41CS Room 104 (12:00pm – 1:00pm)

Come equipped with comments, thoughts, and questions about Cooper/ ISSO or just come mingle and have lunch. RSVP here

 

ISSO CPT/OPT/STEM Workshop for F-1 Students

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 – 41CS Room 105 (12:00pm – 1:00pm)

Curricular Practical Training, Optional Practical Training & STEM Extension applications, timeline and regulations explained in explicit detail. RSVP here

 

ISSO & Engineering 1st year seminar - Thanksgiving/DEI Feast
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - Foundation Building, Peter Cooper Suite (12:00 pm - 2:00 pm)
Experience a culturally diverse Thanksgiving feast in support of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. RSVP here

Holiday lunch / End of Fall celebration feast!
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 - Foundation Building, Peter Cooper Suite (12:00 pm - 1:00 pm)
End of Fall celebration feast! Special giveaways will be provided. RSVP here

**For additional N.Y. Tours and International Student services provided by One to World please click here to sign up with your Cooper email! The Cooper Union ISSO’s membership with One to World also provides career services, volunteer opportunities, and much more for International Students. 

  • 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.