New Cooper Union President Is Focusing on Free Tuition’s Return

The plan is set. In accordance with the consent decree brokered by Eric Schneiderman, the New York State attorney general, The Cooper Union’s Free Education Committee, or F.E.C., in January published the plan that is intended to, in 10 years time, get the college back to just what the committee’s name suggests: free. At the helm of this ship is Laura Sparks, who was inaugurated as the 13th president of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art last month in the institution’s historic Great Hall.