The email heralding the announcement that the Cooper Union will soon charge tuition for the first time since its founding in 1859 went out to the student body at 8:31 a.m., summoning all students to a noon announcement in the school’s Great Hall. No press was admitted. By 12:09 it was all over; new students whom the school determines can afford to pay will have an annual bill of around $20,000 beginning next fall, according to The Times, while others will pay on a sliding scale. Read More

The students who took over Cooper Union last week have relinquished control of their room in the school’s Foundation Building, AnimalNY reports, claiming a victory though the administration did not capitulate to their demands of continued free tuition. Read More

The Bruce High Quality Foundation, the mostly anonymous artist collective founded by a group of Cooper Union alumni, will reopen its free unaccredited art school, the Bruce High Quality Foundation University (BHQFU), in a new location, on the 3rd floor of 34 Avenue A. Read More