The Cooper Union Says It Is on Track to Restore Tuition-Free Education by 2029, Despite Pandemic-Related Setbacks
The school faced heated blowback after it started charging tuition in 2012.
A banner calling for free tuition hung at the Cooper Union during a 2011 protest.
The Cooper Union, home to a storied and once tuition-free art school in New York, is on track to restore its original mission to make education as “free as air and water,” in the words of founder Peter Cooper, by 2029.
Two years after devising the plan, which called for building a reserve of $250 million, the pandemic initially raised concerns about whether it would meet that goal.
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ChoKyun Rha ’62, SM ’64, SM ’66, SCD ’67, an MIT professor post-tenure and a groundbreaker in biomaterials science and engineering, died March 2 in Boston. She was 87.
The first woman of Asian descent to receive tenure at MIT, Rha held four degrees from the Institute and taught at MIT for more than four decades. Her husband, MIT professor of microbiology Anthony Sinskey ScD ’67, also attended MIT, as did their two sons Tong-ik Lee Sinskey ’79, SM ’80 and Taeminn Song MBA ’95, who is the director of strategy and strategic initiatives for MIT Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) and two granddaughters.
“MIT is my home,” Rha told