Cooper Union’s Leadership Crisis, in 5 Damning Allegations

After years of turmoil and infighting over how to navigate out of a financial crisis, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art now has an outline for the future, one that includes more transparency and close monitoring by the state. And yet questions remain about Cooper Union’s past — specifically, how the engineering and design college in New York City fell into such dire straits that it had to begin charging tuition for the first time in a century.  A court filing on Wednesday by New York’s attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, paints a deeply unflattering portrait of Cooper Union’s leadership, especially in the last decade.