Cooper Union

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Your generosity makes the student experience possible at The Cooper Union.

Every year, Cooper’s Giving Day brings together thousands of alumni, students, parents, and friends in a single, powerful act of shared commitment to the mission Peter Cooper founded in 1859: education as a public good, free and accessible to those with the talent to earn it.

This year, we've received an early unlock challenge of $200,000. Any gift you give now, before Giving Day, will help us unlock an additional $200,000 for giving day! Thanks to Ed ChE'76 and Kathleen Dineen and Morris ChE'67 and Amanda Gelb for offering unlock gifts. Every gift of any size gets us closer to full tuition students for all undergrads, and early giving is already underway.

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.