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Cooper Union keeps flirting with shoving tuition down the throat of the kids

Ariel Kaminer from the NY Times updates us on the faculty squabbles over tuition at Cooper Union. It was always an anomaly, a school that didn’t charge anyone for coming and this allowed it get the best students.

Alas, the current President is convinced this is a terrible model. He wants the cash and he wants to grow. He’s sure he’ll be able to charge Harvard-grade tuition for what is really a pretty average campus in a very expensive part of town. Why would anyone go there if they could go to a fancy school with better facilities? Don’t ask me. But in his mind, the only choice is to build a bigger, better campus and charge the students for the fanciness. I guess that’s worked for the other schools, but for how long?

 

 

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  1. My guess is that there are charter documents that lay out the tuition free policy, and that the NY AG could get an injunction against CU charging tuition.

    A bigger question is why any “non-profit” tax-exempt school is allowed to charge tuition. To my mind, Harvard can have a 30G$ tax exempt endowment or they can charge tuition, but they should not be allowed to do both.

    1. Walter Sobchak on February 19th, 2013 at 9:32 pm