School of Art Welcome Week 2021

2pm – 3pm
School of Art Welcome 
MANDATORY FOR FOUNDATION AND TRANSFER STUDENTS. Exchange students do not need to attend this event, as they will have a separate meeting with the director of exchange.
Foundation Building (Students will receive room assignments via email from the School of Art)
Students will meet peers and faculty in their learning community, receive an introduction to the mission and curriculum of the School of Art, and have a chance to ask questions about the academic program.

3pm – 4pm
School of Art Breakout Session for New Transfer Students
Foundation Building (Students will receive room assignments via email from the School of Art)
Transfer students will meet as a group with Professor Doug Ashford.

  • 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.