Extraordinary. A victory on tuition at Cooper Union may be possible after all.
Today the Cooper Union board of trustees met for the first time after the college’s Working Group on tuition policy finished its deliberations. Though the trustees had previously approved a proposal to begin charging tuition for the first time in Cooper’s history, tonight they blinked.
In an announcement to the campus community released just moments ago, the chair of Cooper’s board of trustees announced that they need more time to review the Working Group’s proposal to keep Cooper Union tuition free, and that in order “to give the proposals contained in the report the serious and rigorous review and analysis that they warrant,” the board will continue its study of the proposal over the course of the next month.
The board will meet again in mid-January, the announcement stated, “to
