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Fall 2025 Events

  • Wed, August 27, 2025, ISSO Mandatory Orientation / Check-in Breakfast for all new admits  
    Location: Room 41CS, Rm. 101
    Time: 8:30 am - 10:00 am
  • Tuesday, Sep.16, 2025, ISSO Employment Workshop 
    Location: Room 41CS, Rm. 104
    Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
  • Tuesday, Oct.14, 2025, ISSO Mid-Semester Check-In
    Location: Room 41CS, Rm. 105
    Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
  • Friday, Oct.17, 2025, SA Student Collectives - International Food/Music night 
    Location: 41 Cooper Lobby
    Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
  • Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, ISSO Employment Workshop
    Location: Room 41CS, Rm. 105
    Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
  • Tuesday, Nov.11, 2025, Lunch chat with Special Guest President Steve McLaughlin!!! Your voices and Perspectives Matter. RSVP
    Location: Room 41CS, Rm. 105
    Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
  • Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, ISSO Thanksgiving Feast. RSVP
    A feast of gratitude and global community. Come for the turkey, stay for the company!! 
    Location: Foundation Building, Peter Cooper Suite, 8th Floor
    Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
  • Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, ISSO End of Year Celebration. RSVP. Join us as we celebrate the end of the semester with good food, and great company. Share the spirit of collaboration, reflection, and celebration as we wrap up another successful year at Cooper! 
    Location: Room 41CS, Rm. LL101
    Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

 

News Alerts

June 5, 2025 Urgent Message to Cooper Union International Students

June 5, 2025 CBP's Border Search of Electronic Devices at Ports of Entry

May 29, 2025 Five Key Points Related to the Administration’s Recent Actions Against International Students

May 27, 2025 U.S. Pauses New Student-Visa Interviews as It Prepares to Ramp Up Screening

May 9, 2025 Executive & Regulatory Actions 2025

Jan. 1, 2025 Changes to Immigration Policies and Their Impact on The 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.