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Cooper Union Occupation Ends After 2 Months With Promise Of Task Force
Students at Cooper Union in New York City left the college president's office Friday after a two-month occupation protesting the end of school-wide full-tuition scholarships.
"After 65 days of occupying, and in reaching an agreement that will afford the community a real say in the future of free education at Cooper Union, we've moved on out of the president's office and on to our next steps," the group wrote in an email announcement on Monday.
The students left the office with plans to establish a 16-member task force to be chaired by trustees Mike Borkowsky and Jeff Gural. The task force will explore returning to "providing full-tuition scholarships for all enrolled students," according to an outline document provided by the protesters to The Huffington Post.
The Cooper Union Board of Trustees announced in April that the school would begin charging undergraduate tuition for the first time in more than a century. Tuition has historically been covered by full scholarships for every student at Cooper Union, which offers degrees in art, architecture and engineering. While the decision did not affect current students and roughly one-quarter of new students would still pay nothing under the new plan, the change outraged many at the school.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/16/cooper-union-occupation-task-force_n_3600571.html
"After 65 days of occupying, and in reaching an agreement that will afford the community a real say in the future of free education at Cooper Union, we've moved on out of the president's office and on to our next steps," the group wrote in an email announcement on Monday.
The students left the office with plans to establish a 16-member task force to be chaired by trustees Mike Borkowsky and Jeff Gural. The task force will explore returning to "providing full-tuition scholarships for all enrolled students," according to an outline document provided by the protesters to The Huffington Post.
The Cooper Union Board of Trustees announced in April that the school would begin charging undergraduate tuition for the first time in more than a century. Tuition has historically been covered by full scholarships for every student at Cooper Union, which offers degrees in art, architecture and engineering. While the decision did not affect current students and roughly one-quarter of new students would still pay nothing under the new plan, the change outraged many at the school.
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via https://twitter.com/FreeCooperUnion