Editing Cooper Union (section)

{{Short description|Private college in New York City}}
{{distinguish|text=[[Cooper University Hospital]], a teaching hospital in Camden, New Jersey}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Use American English|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox university
 | logo                   = Cooper Union.svg
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 | name                   = The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
 | latin_name             = 
 | image                  = The Cooper Union's Foundation Building - North Side (48072759802).jpg
 | image_upright          = 1.15
 | image_alt              = The Cooper Union's Foundation Building, at [[Cooper Square]] and [[Astor Place]] (2019)
 | caption                = The Cooper Union's Foundation Building at [[Cooper Square]] and [[Astor Place]] in 2019
 | established            = {{start date and age|1859}}
 | type                   = [[Private college]]
 | endowment              = $920 million (2021)<ref>[https://cooper.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/assets/site/files/2021%20The%20Cooper%20Union%20for%20the%20Advancement%20of%20Science%20and%20Art%20CFS.pdf "Consolidated Financial Statements and Report of Independent Financial Consultants, p. 28 (As of June 30, 2021)] Cooper Union website</ref>
 | faculty                = 57 (full time) (2017/2018)<ref>[http://cooper.edu/art/people "School of Art People"] Cooper Union website</ref><ref>[http://cooper.edu/engineering/people "School of Engineering People"] Cooper Union website</ref><ref>[http://cooper.edu/architecture/people "School of Architecture People"] Cooper Union website</ref><ref>[http://cooper.edu/humanities/people "School of Humanities & Social Sciences People"] Cooper Union website</ref>
 | president              = Malcolm King (interim)<ref>[https://cooper.edu/about/president "Office of the President"] Cooper Union website</ref>
 | students               = 800–900<ref name=facts>[https://cooper.edu/admissions/facts "Facts About Cooper Union"] Cooper Union website</ref>
 | undergrad              = 
 | postgrad               = 
 | doctoral               = 
 | city                   = [[Manhattan]], New York City
 | state                  = New York
 | country                = United States
 | campus                 = [[Urban area|Urban]]
 | colors                 = Maroon and Gold {{Color box|maroon|border=darkgray}} {{Color box|gold|border=darkgray}}
 | mascot                 = 
 | nickname               = 
 | accreditation          = [[Middle States Commission on Higher Education|MSCHE]]
 | website                = {{URL|https://cooper.edu/}}
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| name = The Cooper Union
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| location= [[Cooper Square]]<br />[[Manhattan]], New York City
| built =1858–59
| architect= F.A. Peterson
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| added = October 15, 1966<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref>
| refnum=66000540
| designated_other1 = New York State Register of Historic Places
| designated_other1_abbr = NYSRHP
| designated_other1_date = June 23, 1980
| designated_other1_number = 06101.000441
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| designated_other2_name = New York City Landmark
| designated_other2_date = March 15, 1966
| designated_other2_abbr = NYCL
| designated_other2_link = New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
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| designated_other2_color = #ffe978
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'''The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art''', commonly known as '''Cooper Union''', is a [[private college]] on [[Cooper Square]] in Lower Manhattan, New York City. [[Peter Cooper]] founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported {{Lang|fr|[[École Polytechnique]]|italic=no}} in France.<ref>{{Cite Collier's|wstitle=Cooper Union}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_5655304_000/pages/ldpd_5655304_000_00000042.html |title=Peter Cooper |publisher=Columbia University Libraries |year=1891 |access-date=December 11, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://engfac.cooper.edu/pages/topper/uploads/peter_cooper_lect_wbib&ed_Final.pdf |title=Henry Whitney Bellows Lecture |year=1999 |publisher=Robert Q. Topper |access-date=December 12, 2012}}</ref> The school was built on a radical new model of American higher education based on Cooper's belief that an education "equal to the best technology schools established"<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ek0XAAAAYAAJ&q=%22equal+to+the+best%22&pg=PA21 |title=Original Cooper Union charter, trust deed, and by-laws |publisher=Cooper Union |year=1859 |access-date=February 3, 2012}}</ref> should be accessible to those who qualify, independent of their race, religion, sex, wealth or social status, and should be "open and free to all".<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Mead |editor-first1=Edwin Doak |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tysPAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Old+South+Leaflets%22+%22open+and+free+to+all%22&pg=PA488 |title=The Old South Leaflets |location=Boston |publisher=Old South Meeting House |year=1903 |page=465}}</ref>

The college is divided into three schools: the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, the School of Art, and the Albert Nerken School of Engineering. It offers [[undergraduate degree|undergraduate]] and [[master's degree]] programs exclusively in the fields of [[architecture]], [[fine arts]] (undergraduate only), and [[engineering]] as well as a shared core curriculum in the humanities and social sciences.

The Cooper Union was one of very few American institutions of higher learning to offer a full-tuition scholarship to every admitted student, a practice it discontinued in 2014, instead offering a half-tuition scholarship to each admitted student.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Seltzer |first1=Rick |title= Free Again in Ten Years |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/03/16/cooper-union-plans-restore-free-undergraduate-tuition-decade |access-date=21 September 2023}}</ref> {{as of|2024}}, nearly half of its undergraduate students were attending on a tuition-free basis.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Progress Update on the Plan to Return to Full Tuition Scholarships |url=https://cooper.edu/about/president/sparks/progress-update-plan-return-full-tuition-scholarships |access-date=2024-07-29 |website=The Cooper Union |language=en}}</ref> In September 2024 the school announced that for the next four years, all students (including current students) would not pay tuition for their senior year.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Otterman |first=Sharon |date=September 3, 2024 |title=Surprise! A Class of College Seniors Learns Tuition Will Be Free. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/us/free-tuition-cooper-union.html |access-date=October 2, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Cooper Makes Tuition Free for All Seniors |url=https://cooper.edu/about/news/cooper-makes-tuition-free-all-seniors |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=The Cooper Union |language=en}}</ref>