Ravindra Bisram EE'21

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Ravindra Bisram EE'21 has been named a 2022 Excellence Award winner at Success Academy Charter Schools. Since its founding in 2006, Success Academy has dramatically improved academic outcomes for thousands of children from low-income families in New York City. Currently enrolling over 20,000 children in 47 schools, K-12, Success Academy is the highest-performing public school district in the state of New York. To date, 100% of SA’s graduates have been accepted to college. Most are the first in their families to have the opportunity for higher education, and 70% received at least one offer meeting full financial need.

  • 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.