2024-12-22T02:12:22-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150360753/the-cooper-union-updates-irwin-s-chanin-school-of-architecture-deanship-search Josh Niland 2023-08-21T12:10:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ee/ee2a908901b41379db30f197e04db988.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/697/the-cooper-union" target="_blank">The Cooper Union</a> has announced an update in its search to find a new permanent Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.</p> <p>In a letter to the schoolwide community, the Board of Trustees announced the continuation of Hayley Eber as Acting Dean and the addition of South African-born architect Mokena Makeka&nbsp;as its first Special Advisor to the Vice President of Academic Affairs following an exhaustive two-year community feedback process.</p> <p>The Board shared that a four-candidate review did not yield an adequate long-term hire for the Dean&rsquo;s position in the view of the committee, which has been occupied by Eber on an interim basis since 2019.</p> <p>The school shares: &ldquo;What it generated was a new way of thinking. We conceived an entirely different leadership model &mdash; a partnership &mdash; that combines excellence and experience across the precise domains we sought to address within the School of Architecture, in particular, and for The Cooper Union, as a whole, while working within our existing b...</p>