Cooper Union

Cooper Union Reunion 2025

Thank You to everyone who attended All Cooper Union 2025! We loved welcoming everyone back to campus and to the evening party at the Chrysler Building.

View photos from Reunion 2025 here.

We welcome you to join us by supporting The Cooper Union by donating here. We hope to see you at future events!

Reunion is open to all alumni, families, and their guests. If you have any questions or concerns, please email Helen Freeman, Assistant Director for Alumni Affairs, at helen.freeman@cooper.edu.

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.