Cooper Union ED Arts

nmmomma
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:08:06 +0000

Thanks all. I will read both this weekend. I do have concerns. My daughter does too. I mean, doesn’t charging tuition fly in the face of their mission statement? I know school is very expensive. It’s hard to hire great professors. They have expensive real estate etc etc. I hope they can retain outstanding faculty in all fields. If I were teaching there, I sure would be mad at the administration over all this. It seems like people at the top, going a long way back, didn’t have that mission of free education driving their decisions. From what I’ve read ( on the cooper site only) they still attract high caliber students. It is just unfortunate that they (I think) are no longer really “need blind”. It is no longer based solely on meritocracy. Or at least some of the best students that could contribute are choosing other schools with better aid packages. I hope the faculty are still “all in”. That is my biggest concern. It’s the most important aspect of her education. Also, at some point, if they continue to charge, or even begin charging full tuition, they will no longer really be “cooper union”. They will be just like any other selective college. It seems that this would affect the quality but maybe not. It is really really all on the faculty I think. And if they are at odds with admin all the time, they will also pursue other opportunities.