1. HISTORY OF TOURO COLLEGE
CHARTERED
1970
ESTABLISHED
1971

2. Dr. Bernard Lander
FOUNDER

3. Dr. Bernard Lander
Founder, Touro College
Dr. Bernard Lander Dr. Bernard Lander, founder and president of Touro College
(1970-2010), was a social scientist and educator, a preeminent leader in the Jewish
community and a pioneer in Jewish and general higher education. As associate
director of former New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's Committee on Unity, a
precursor to the city's Commission on Human Rights, Dr. Lander promoted key fair
employment legislation and attacked discriminatory quotas in higher education.
An ordained rabbi, he earned a doctorate in sociology from Columbia University.
Dr. Lander's record of achievement in creating and building new educational
institutions was unparalleled. In 1950, he served as president of the Queens
Jewish Center where, under his leadership, a school building was constructed. Two
years later he co-founded Yeshiva Dov Revel, a major day school in Queens. He
also served on the founders committee for Bar-Ilan University in the early 1950s.
Prior to establishing Touro College in 1971, he served as a professor of sociology
for over two decades at City University of New York. He served as dean of Yeshiva
University's Bernard Revel Graduate School from 1954 through 1969 and
reorganized Y.U.'s graduate programs into the schools of social work, education
and psychology between 1954 and 1959. Today, Touro College/Touro University is a
multi-campus, international institution with more than 17,500 students at campus
locations in New York, California, Florida, Nevada, Israel, Russia, Germany and
France.

4. Dr. Bernard Lander
Dr. Lander served as a consultant to three United States presidents. He
was a consultant to the White House Conference on Children and Youth;
served on an advisory council on public assistance established by
Congress; and was a member of the President's Advisory Committee on
Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime in the Johnson and Kennedy
administrations. For eight years he acted as a senior director of a national
study on the problems of youth for the University of Notre Dame of South
Bend, Indiana. He authored of "Towards an Understanding of Juvenile
Delinquency," published by Columbia University Press, and numerous
articles in the field of sociology. Dr. Lander also worked as a consultant to
the Maryland State Commission on Juvenile Delinquency.
A former Rabbi of Beth Jacob Congregation of Baltimore, Dr. Lander served
over thirty years as a vice president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America.

5. Dr. Alan Kadish
PRESIDENT and CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

6. Dr. Alan Kadish
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Alan Kadish Alan Kadish, M.D. is president and chief executive officer of Touro
College and Touro University. As only the second president of Touro College, he has
overall administrative responsibility for the Touro system, which has grown from a
small men's college since its opening in 1971 into the largest Jewish-sponsored
educational institution in the United States. The Touro system is currently
educating approximately 17,500 students at 29 schools and colleges throughout
the world, including at Touro University California and Touro University Nevada.
A distinguished scholar, academic and administrator, Dr. Kadish joined Touro in
September 2009 as senior provost and chief operating officer from Northwestern
University, where he was a prominent cardiologist on the national stage. At
Northwestern, he served on the faculty and as an administrator for the previous
19 years. He has worked as a teacher, research scholar and scientist, and clinician.
He held numerous senior-level administrative positions at Northwestern, and also
at the University of Michigan, where he had various appointments prior to joining
Northwestern. A prolific researcher and writer, he has written extensively in his
field, authoring over 300 peer-reviewed papers and contributing to several
textbooks.

7. Dr. Alan Kadish
Dr. Kadish considers it an enormous privilege to succeed Dr. Bernard
Lander, who was the founding president of Touro College. An observant
Jew, he is deeply committed to Touro's mission of serving in innovative
ways the educational needs of both the Jewish and secular communities
throughout the country and around the globe. Dr. Kadish is dedicated to
delivering quality and accessible education to Touro's large and varied
student body, and to ensuring that all students enter the workforce
prepared to meet the challenges of an increasingly competitive economic
climate.
Dr. Kadish believes that Touro has become an important school for the
study of health sciences, and is employing his experience in medicine to
propel Touro's geographically distinct medical programs to leadership
roles in American medicine. Currently, Touro operates two colleges of
pharmacy, three colleges of osteopathic medicine, and graduate schools
and colleges in health sciences in several states, including California,
Nevada and New York.

8. Dr. Alan Kadish
At Northwestern, Dr. Kadish served as senior associate chief of the
cardiology division; the Chester and Deborah Cooley Professor of
Medicine; and director of the cardiovascular clinical trials unit. He also
served on the finance and investment committees of the Northwestern
clinical practice plan. Nationally, he serves as chairman of the Clinical
Cardiology Program Committee of the American Heart Association, and
has been elected to prestigious scientific research and education societies
including the American Association of Professors, the American Society for
Clinical Investigation, and the American Society of Physicians.
Dr. Kadish received his M.D. degree from the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine at Yeshiva University and his postdoctoral medical training at the
Brigham and Women's Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School,
and at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a
fellow in cardiology. He is board certified in internal medicine,
cardiovascular disease and cardiac electrophysiology.

9. Dr. Alan Kadish
He has been the recipient of numerous research grants, including
from the National Institutes of Health, where he served extensively
on review panels; the National Science Foundation; and other not-
for-profit organizations. Dr. Kadish has also mentored many
researchers and guided them to become successful independent
scientists and teachers.
Dr. Kadish is fully committed to Touro's mission of enhancing Torah
values through education throughout the world. He has been
involved in Jewish education and communal affairs for many years,
serving on the boards of directors of several educational,
philanthropic and religious institutions in Chicago. Most recently, he
and his wife, Connie, were honored by the Ida Crown Jewish
Academy, a Jewish high school located in Chicago recognized as a
leading institution in the field of Jewish education.
Dr. Kadish, who was born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens and
educated in yeshivas in New York, is married with four children.

10. TOURO COLLEGE
23rd STREET

11. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 1970
• Touro College is formally chartered by the State of New York.
• 1971
• Touro College opens in September with a freshman class of 35 men.
• 1972
• Division of Health Sciences is established, offering studies leading to a B.S.
in health sciences and qualifying graduates as physician assistants.

12. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 1974
• Women’s division is established as part of the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences.
• School of General Studies is established to serve the city’s diverse ethnic
communities.
• 1975
• First annual commencement exercises host 59 degree candidates. Total
College enrollment reaches 1,000.

13. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 1976
• Touro College receives accreditation from the Middle States Association of
Colleges and Schools.
• Physician assistant program is accredited by the American Medical
Association.
• 1977
• Men’s division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is established to
serve the educational needs and career aspirations of full-time yeshiva
students.

14. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 1978
• Touro Israel Option organized to enable undergraduates to complete a
year of intensive Judaic studies.
• 1979
• Women’s division opens at College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in
Brooklyn, NY
• 1980
• Touro College School of Law – Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center – admits its
first class.

15. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 1981
• The Graduate School of Jewish Studies admits its first class.
• 1982
• New center opens in Midwood section of Brooklyn to
accommodate growth of Flatbush division.
• Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center relocates to Huntington, NY.

16. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 1983
• Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center graduates its first class.
• The Graduate School of Jewish Studies awards its first
master's degrees.
• The Center for Biomedical Education opens, initiating a
bi-national cooperative effort between Touro College and
the Technion medical school in Israel, leading to M.S.-
M.D. degrees.

17. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 1984
• Yeshivas Ohr HaChaim, a full-time yeshiva affiliate, opens in Kew Gardens
Hills, NY.
• Graduate program in physical therapy is established.
• 1986
• The Graduate School of Jewish Studies establishes branch campus in
Jerusalem, which in 2004 becomes Machon Lander (Lander Institute), an
independent Israeli academic institution.

18. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 1988
• First class of Touro College biomedical students receives their M.D.
degrees from the Technion in Israel.
• School for Lifelong Education opens for Chassidic and other nontraditional
students, offering a combination of contract-based learning, mentorials
and classroom instruction in liberal arts and other areas.
• 1989
• The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center receives full accreditation from the
American Bar Association.

19. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 1991
• Touro College School of International Business Management opens a
Moscow campus, the first American-sponsored business college in Russia.
Touro School of Jewish studies opens in Moscow, enrolling some 300
students.
• 1992
• New Manhattan women’s division campus opens on Lexington Avenue.
• 1993
• The Graduate School of Education and Psychology is organized.

20. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 1994
• Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun High School, an affiliate of Touro, opens in
Forest Hills, NY.
• 1995
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences opens modern Flatbush campus in the
Midwood section of Brooklyn.
• Touro opens a school of business, offering baccalaureate degrees, in the
Talpiot section of Jerusalem.

21. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 1996
• The School of Health Sciences establishes a center for M.A. studies in
occupational and physical therapy in Manhattan.
• Yeshivas Ohr HaChaim moves to new facilities in Kew Gardens Hills, NY
• 1997
• The College of Osteopathic Medicine (TUCOM) opens in San Francisco as
the first division of Touro University California.

22. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 1998
• The New York State Education Department authorizes Touro College to
offer a master of science in international business finance.
• 1999
• Touro University International, offering undergraduate and graduate
degrees in business on the Internet, opens in Los Alamitos, California.
• Touro establishes Machon L’Parnassa, or Institute for Professional Studies,
offering undergraduate career-oriented degree programs for Chassidic
men and women in traditional classroom settings.

23. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 2000
• New Lander College for Men in Kew Gardens Hills, NY admits its charter
class.
• Graduate program leading to a master’s degree in speech language
pathology is inaugurated in Flatbush.
• 2001
• TUCOM holds its first commencement exercises for 63 Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine degree candidates at its new campus in Vallejo,
California.

24. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 2002
• The master's program in speech language pathology graduates its first
degree candidates.
• New York School of Career and Applies Studies (NYSCAS) formed from
merger of School of General Studies with School of Career and Applied
Studies.
• 2003
• Touro College Berlin branch campus opens with a charter class of 19
students.

25. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 2004
• Touro University College of
Osteopathic Medicine, in
Henderson, Nevada, opens as a
branch of TUCOM California.

26. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 2005
• Touro College Los Angeles accepts its first class of students.
• Touro University Nevada’s College of Health and Human Services launches
three new schools, each with graduate-level offerings: a School of Nursing,
the first private nursing program in Nevada; a School of Occupational
Therapy (OT), the first and only OT program in Nevada; and a School of
Education.
• Touro College signs historic agreement with Province of Rome and
Municipality of Zagarolo to open a branch campus subject to approval of
American education agencies, in Italy.
• Touro offers MBA and welcomes first class of MBA students.

27. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 2006
• Touro College prepares to celebrate its 36th anniversary with special
events and ceremonies, as the school continues to undergo significant
growth.
• Touro College South opens in Miami Beach, Florida.
• The Graduate School of Social Work is established to train clinical social
practitioners.
• Touro College establishes a new Graduate School of Technology, offering a
new Master of Science degree in Information Systems to prepare students
for career in IT leadership and management of information systems.

28. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 2006 Continued
• Lander College for Women moves into a new ultra-
modern facility in Manhattan, near Lincoln Center.
• Touro’s Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center relocates to a new
campus in Central Islip, NY, adjacent to federal and state
courthouses, becoming the first law school in the country
to be located on a judicial “campus.”

29. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 2007
• Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM), the first new medical
school in New York State in 30 years, opens its doors in Harlem with a
mission to improve medical care in the community and increase the
number of minorities practicing medicine. TouroCOM is Touro’s third
college of osteopathic medicine.
• Touro College celebrates 36th anniversary and receives $10 million gift
from Chairman of the Board Dr. Mark Hasten and his wife, Anna Ruth
Hasten, of Indianapolis. Lander College for Women renamed “Lander
College for Women/The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School.”
• Touro College South begins a full time men’s program at its campus in
Miami Beach, Florida.

30. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 2007 Continued
• TouroCOM and Graduate School of Education launch “Project Aspire” in
Harlem, a community outreach effort to interest youngsters in pursuing
health science careers.
• 2008
• Touro College adds new joint B.S./M.S. degree in Physician Assistant
Studies.
• First Commencement for Touro Graduate School of Social Work.

31. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 2008 Continued
• Touro College restructures its Graduate Division to encompass seven
schools: business, technology, Jewish studies, education, psychology,
social work, and health sciences, as well as The Institute on Human Rights
and the Holocaust and the Lander Center for Educational Research.
• Touro College of Pharmacy opens in Harlem in fall, marking the opening of
the first pharmacy school in New York City in 68 years.
• Touro University Nevada adds a Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at its
Henderson campus, and the College of Osteopathic Medicine graduates its
first class.

32. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 2008 Continued
• Touro College opens in Paris.
• Touro’s New York School of Career and Applied Studies
(NYSCAS) and the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
(TouroCOM) launch seven-year “Fast Track Path” for
science honors students. The B.S.-D.O. students will
receive their bachelor’s degrees at NYSCAS and their D.O.
degrees at TouroCOM.

33. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 2009
• Touro Law Center announces partnership with Jerusalem’s Feurstein
Center.
• Graduate School of Business launches residential real estate Center of
Excellence and announces new Master of Science degree in accounting.
• Graduate School of Education launches new „online/blended/ teacher
education program.
• Graduate School of Business offers Master of Science degree in
accounting.
• Alan Kadish, M.D. appointed senior provost and chief operating officer.

34. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 2009 Continued
• School of Health Sciences offers Master’s of Public
Health degree.
• Touro College and New York Medical College
announce affiliation agreement.

35. Milestones in the History of Touro
College
• 2010
• Touro mourns the passing of its founder and President,
Rabbi Dr. Bernard Lander.
• Rabbi Doniel Lander appointed chancellor of Touro
College and Touro University.
• Alan Kadish, M.D. appointed president and chief
executive officer of Touro College and Touro University.

36. Lander College of Arts and Sciences

37. MISSION
• MISSION STATEMENT
• Revised Fall 2009 Touro College is an independent
institution of higher education under Jewish auspices,
established to perpetuate and enrich the Jewish
heritage and to support Jewish continuity, as well as to
serve the general community in keeping with the
historic Jewish commitment to the transmission of
knowledge, social justice, and compassionate concern
for, and service to, society. As an integral component of
this commitment, Touro fosters access for diverse
elements of the urban community to educational and
professional opportunities in a variety of fields.

38. MISSION
• The Jewish heritage embraces two fundamental components,
the particular and the universal, as reflected in Hillel's dictum,
transmitted in Ethics of the Fathers, "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 include a dynamic
commitment to quality education regardless of socioeconomic
status, the treatment of all students, faculty and staff with
integrity and respect, the role of ethics in the professions, and
the building of a responsive and responsible society through
expanded academic opportunities. Touro is a learner-centered
college where personal growth and intellectual inquiry are
fostered and where men and women are prepared for
productive lives of dignity, value and values.

39. 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
universal aspect of its mission, the college
provides neighborhood-based programs for
underserved members of the community, and
offers professional and graduate programs in
such areas as education, law, medicine,
pharmacy, the allied health sciences, social work,
and business, as well as mission-driven programs
at campuses abroad.

40. TOURO COLLEGE
HARLEM

41. ABOUT TOURO COLLEGE
• About Touro College
• President
Alan Kadish Touro College is a Jewish-sponsored independent
institution of higher and professional education. The College was
established primarily to enrich the Jewish heritage, and to serve the
larger American community. Approximately 17,500 students are
currently enrolled in its various schools and divisions. Touro College
is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education
[ 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, Tel. no. (267) 284-
5000 ].The Middle States Commission on Higher Education is an
institutional accrediting agency recognized by the United States
Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education
Accreditation.

42. ABOUT TOURO COLLEGE
• This accreditation status covers Touro College
and its branch campuses, locations and
instructional sites in the New York area, as
well as branch campuses and programs in
Berlin, Jerusalem, Moscow, and Florida.

43. ABOUT TOURO COLLEGE
• Touro University California and its Nevada branch
campus are accredited by the Accrediting Commission
for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western
Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), 985
Atlantic Avenue, Alameda CA 94501 (Tel: 510-748-
9001). The Commission has also approved the creation
of Touro College Los Angeles (TCLA), as a separately
accreditable unit of Touro College New York, within the
WASC region. Touro College Los Angeles opened in Fall
2005.

44. ABOUT TOURO COLLEGE
• The Physician Assistant program is accredited by the
Committee on Accreditation of Allied Health
Education Programs (CAAHEP). The Physical Therapy
program is accredited by the Commission on
Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE).
The Occupational Therapy program is accredited by
the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy
Education (ACOTE). The graduate program in Speech
and Language Pathology is accredited by the
American Speech-Language Hearing Association
(ASHA).

45. ABOUT TOURO COLLEGE
• The Master of Science in Acupuncture and Master of
Science in Oriental Medicine programs of Touro
College: Graduate Program in Oriental Medicine are
accredited by the Accreditation Commission for
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM), which is
the recognized accrediting agency for the approval of
programs preparing acupuncture and Oriental
medicine practitioners. ACAOM is located at Maryland
Trade Center #3, 7501 Greenway Center Drive, Ste.
820, Greenbelt, MD (Tel. 301-313-0855; Fax 301-313-
0912).

46. ABOUT TOURO COLLEGE
• Touro College was chartered by the Board of Regents of the State of
New York in June 1970. Under the leadership of its founding
president, Dr. Bernard Lander, the College opened with a class of 35
Liberal Arts and Sciences students in 1971. Since 1971, the College
has continued to demonstrate dynamic growth. A Women’s Division
was added to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Schools
of General Studies, Law and Health Sciences were subsequently
organized. The College organized sister institutions in Israel and
Russia. The School for Lifelong Education, offering a non-traditional
contract-learning-based program, was organized in Fall 1989. The
Institute for Professional Studies (IPS) – Machon L’Parnasa was
established in early 1999 to provide higher education with practical
applications for the ultra-orthodox community. The Graduate
School of Education and Psychology and the International School of
Business were established.

47. ABOUT TOURO COLLEGE
• Subsequently, the Touro University College of Osteopathic
Medicine and Touro University International (both based in
California) added to the professional options available to
Touro students. An upper-division College offering programs
in other professional areas (e.g. Physician Assistant, Public
Health) opened at the Vallejo, California campus in 2002. A
branch of the Touro University College of Osteopathic
Medicine was opened in Henderson, Nevada in Fall 2004. An
overseas branch of the College, Touro College-Berlin, offering
both Jewish studies and professional courses, was opened in
Fall 2003. Touro College-Los Angeles, a liberal arts college
modeled after the program of the Lander Colleges, was
opened in Fall 2005 in West Hollywood, California. Touro
College South, based in Miami Beach, Florida, opened in Fall
2006.

48. ABOUT TOURO COLLEGE
• The College experience, however
consists of more than classroom
instruction. Touro seeks to foster an
atmosphere of warmth, in which
close faculty-student relationships,
student camaraderie and
individualized attention are nurtured
in many ways.

49. TOURO COLLEGE
ISRAEL