Touro College

Touro College
Lander College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Established	1970
Type	Private
Religious affiliation	Jewish
Chairman	Mark Hasten
Chancellor	Rabbi Doniel Lander
President	Dr. Alan Kadish
Dean	Stanley Boylan PhD.
Students	18,000+
Location	New York City, New York, United States
Campus	Multiple campuses
Colors	Blue White
Website	http://www.touro.edu/

Touro College is a sponsored independent institution of higher and professional education, in New York City, New York, United States. Founded by Dr. Bernard Lander, the College was established primarily to enrich the Jewish heritage, and to serve the larger American community. Over 18,000 students are currently enrolled in the various schools and divisions of Touro College.^[1]

Contents 1 History 2 Present 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] History

Touro College was chartered by New York State in 1970. In 1971 the College opened with a class of 35 Liberal Arts and Sciences students. Since its inception, the College has demonstrated significant growth. A Women’s Division was added to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Schools of General Studies, Law and Health Sciences, as well as three osteopathic medical schools in California, Nevada, and New York were subsequently organized. The College organized sister institutions in Germany (Berlin), Israel and Russia (when it was part of the Soviet Union). The School for Lifelong Education, offering a non-traditional mentored-based program, was organized in Fall 1989.

The College takes its name from Judah Touro and Isaac Touro, Jewish community leaders of colonial America, who represent the ideals upon which the College bases its mission. Inspired by the democratic ethos enunciated by founding US President George Washington at Newport, Rhode Island when he visited the Touro Synagogue in 1790, the Touro family provided major endowments for universities, the first free library on the North American continent, community health facilities in the United States, and pioneering settlements in Israel.

Touro College is an independent institution of higher and professional education under Jewish sponsorship, established to perpetuate and enrich the Jewish heritage, to support Jewish continuity, as well as to serve the general community in keeping with the Judaic commitment to intellectual inquiry and social justice.

The Jewish heritage embraces two fundamental components reflected in Hillel’s historic dictum, “If we are not for ourselves, who will be? If we are concerned only with ourselves, what are we?” This seminal teaching shapes the core values of the college, which are:

Preservation of the Jewish heritage and support for Jewish continuity; Belief in the value of education in the liberal arts and professions to better the individual and society; Promotion of ethical and humanistic values of the Judaic tradition among all members of the learning community; Commitment to providing educational and professional opportunities and to fostering access to underserved populations; Commitment to tolerance and the promotion of the democratic ethos. These core values and the dual components of the Jewish heritage—the concern for the particular and the universal—are reflected in Touro College’s mission, which is to strengthen Jewish life and perpetuate the Judaic tradition on the college campus, and to contribute to the building of a better society for all through educational opportunities.

Cognizant of national and international threats to Jewish continuity in the forms of assimilation, loss of affiliation, and anti-Semitism, the Board of Trustees of the college views the college’s mission as transcending the physical borders of its original locus. Touro College seeks to strengthen Jewish identity and normative societal values by offering education programs serving the Jewish and general populations in communities nationally and around the world.

Touro College’s mission commits the college to multiple constituencies. In adherence to the particularistic aspect of the mission, Touro offers undergraduate and graduate programs in Jewish studies and liberal arts and sciences serving the diverse components of the Jewish community. In consonance with the universalistic aspect of the mission, the college supports underserved members of the broader community with neighborhood-based undergraduate programs. As an institution serving the general community in all its diversity, Touro College offers professional and graduate programs in such areas as education, law, medicine, allied health sciences, and business. Throughout its various programs, Touro College emphasizes academic achievement and quality in the context of a supportive and caring environment.

[edit] Present

Touro College has many undergraduate programs catering to diverse individuals from various walks of life. In addition, Touro offers a range of graduate programs, including Education, Social Work, Technology, Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, MBA and other degree programs that prepare graduates for professional careers. Recently, the pharmacy program at the Touro College of Pharmacy in Harlem received pre-candidate status from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. Touro also planned to open a new medical school in Hackensack, New Jersey, to be named Touro University College of Medicine. However, in December 2009, Touro announced that it had entered into an agreement to affiliate with New York Medical College in Westchester County, New York, and abandoned plans for the New Jersey school.^[2]

[edit] See also

• Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Central Islip, NY
• Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York, NY
• Lander College
• TUI University Former online subdivision sold in 2007 and now replaced by Touro University Worldwide, www.tuw.touro.edu, [1]
• Touro University
  • Touro University California, Vallejo, CA
  • Touro University Nevada, Henderson, NV
  • Touro University Rome, Zagarolo (Rome), Italy
  • Touro University Worldwide, Westlake Village, California

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Touro College
• Touro College Berlin
• Touro University Rome
• Touro College South
• Touro College Israel
• Touro College France
• Touro College Los Angeles
• Touro University Worldwide
• Touro College Graduate School of Technology

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