Related: Cooper Union College to Start Charging Students
This chosen one thinks she is special:
"N.Y. college’s tuition plan challengedy Jennifer Peltz" Associated Press August 16, 2014
NEW YORK — Students and faculty at one of the nation’s few free colleges asked a judge Friday to block the school’s plan to start charging undergraduate tuition, a move the school calls a financial necessity but opponents say will alter the culture of a storied institution.
With the first set of Cooper Union tuition bills already coming due, the fight is ‘‘about the whole foundation of the school,’’ incoming freshman Claire Kleinman said outside Friday’s hearing on a lawsuit she and other students, alumni, and professors brought to try to keep the school free.
Kleinman, an 18-year-old from Manhattan, will be able to enroll regardless of the outcome, but the intended art major worries that tuition of up to $20,000 a year could introduce debt worries into an academic climate in which students have been unusually free of financial burdens.
I'm not even go to say anything about the something-for-nothing attitude and inherent right that others play regarding certain trouble-making tribe members.
‘‘It creates a community that’s really strong,’’ she said. ‘‘I’m afraid that community could change.’’
Cooper trustees say they are concerned about its financial future. With operating-fund deficits ranging from $13 million to $23 million in the last four years, ‘‘dire financial realities required us to make tough decisions to preserve Cooper for future generations,’’ spokesman Justin Harmon said in a statement.
And let's face it, they are not a bank so no bailout.
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