Cooper Union Reunion 2024

Friday, September 27, 2024, 1 - 8pm

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Reunion 2024

Join your fellow Cooper alumni on September 27-29 for a Reunion celebration in New York City! Alumni and their families and friends come back to campus to relive memories, share stories with generations of fellow alums, and commemorate their time at their beloved alma mater.

Learn more and register for Reunion 2024 here.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27


1:00-7:00 p.m.: Check-In, Foundation Building

Ongoing: 

  • Self-directed scavenger hunt to explore new and old spaces on the Cooper Union campus
  • Cable yearbooks and Pioneers on display in the Library
  • Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story documentary, directed by Janet Gardner A'65, showing in Library
  • Alumni Roof Terrace open for visiting

3:00-5:00 p.m.: Community-wide gathering with students, faculty, and alumni, including snacks and special activities, location TBD

5:00-6:15 p.m.: Welcome Reception, Library, Foundation Building

6:30-8:00 p.m.: Special Presentation by Shigeru Ban AR'84, The Great Hall, Foundation Building. Free and open to the public. Reunion registrants will have reserved seating.

More Events & Exhibitions

  • 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.