Our campaign to save Cooper Union is off to an excellent start, and we gratefully acknowledge the over 420 supporters of a tuition-free Cooper Union who have raised over $76,000 in the initial days of this effort. We’re over half-way to our goal of $150,000! Let’s keep the momentum going forward.
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In the meantime, we encourage everyone to see the movie “Ivory Tower.” It is a compelling exposé of how runaway increases in administrative costs are being funded by unsustainable levels of student debt. It includes a section focused on the situation at Cooper Union, including a revealing interview of President Bharucha. The opening weekend begins with showings this Friday, June 13th, in New York City at the Angelika theater. Director Andrew Rossi will be present and speaking at the Friday 7:45pm performance. Committee to Save Cooper Union will also be at the theater all day spreading the word about our legal effort to preserve free education at Cooper Union. Plenty of pamphlets, “Save Cooper Union” t-shirts, and buttons will be in the mix. Please tell your friends and family to come out!
On the June 5 episode of the On the Katie Show with Katie Couric, director of the documentary Ivory Tower, Andrew Rossi, discusses the cost — and value — of higher education in the United States today alongside recent Cooper Union alumna, Victoria Sobel. Victoria speaks to the challenges facing Cooper and even got a chance to plug the Committee to Save Cooper Union’s lawsuit and legal fund to preserve free education for all students at the school.
For those who didn’t catch the show, check out the complete segment below and please share it around — this is important stuff.
At 16:20 Andrew Rossi describes how the students of Cooper Union have held several direct actions and occupations to fight back against tuition at Cooper Union. Katie Couric then notes the crisis at Cooper Union is “emblematic of how universities are operating now. I know they built this big, big student center that cost millions and millions of dollars and the cost of that was passed down to students, and that’s another example of what’s happening all across the country”
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Our sincere thanks go out to the new donors to our campaign and the many more who contributed to the initial funding and ongoing efforts to save Cooper Union. Let’s see if we can close out this round of funding for the lawsuit in record time! Please contribute to the Committee to Save Cooper Union Legal Fund today.