Touro College

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Touro College
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Type Private university
Established1971;51 years ago (1971)
Religious affiliation
 Jewish
Endowment $14.0 million (2013) [1]
Chairman Mark Hasten
Chancellor Doniel Lander
President Alan Kadish
Undergraduates 6,900 [2]
Postgraduates 4,000 [3]
Location
New York City
,
New York
,
United States

40°45′02″N73°59′45″W / 40.750528°N 73.995833°W / 40.750528; -73.995833 Coordinates: 40°45′02″N73°59′45″W / 40.750528°N 73.995833°W / 40.750528; -73.995833
Colors    Blue and white
Website touro.edu
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Touro College is a private Jewish university in New York City, New York. It was founded by Rabbi Bernard Lander in 1971, and named for Isaac and Judah Touro. [4] [5] It is a part of the Touro College and University System. [6] Its mission includes a strong focus on "transmit[ting] and perpetuat[ing] the Jewish heritage". [7]

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The college has about 5500 undergraduates, with a teaching staff of 1242, of which over a third are full-time. [2] It has about 4000 graduate students. [3] About 70% of undergraduates and nearly 80% of graduate students are female. [2] [3] Among undergraduates, some 4% are Asian, 15% are black, 8% are Hispanic and 64% are white. [2] The four-year graduation rate is 46%. [1]

History

Touro College was founded by Orthodox rabbi and academic sociologist Bernard Lander, who named it for Isaac Touro, an Orthodox rabbi, and his son Judah Touro, a businessman and philanthropist. [4] [8]

Lander's aim was to provide education for Jewish people, combining professional courses with Torah studies. [8] The college received its charter as a private, four-year liberal arts college from the Board of Regents of the State of New York in 1970, and opened its doors in 1971. In its first year it had thirty-five students, all men. [4] A section for women was opened in 1974. [8] The college was accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education in 1976; accreditation was reaffirmed in 2015. [9]

In the 1970s, the school enrolled into its adult-education program large numbers of old people, among them many of whom could neither read nor write English. Federal and state authorities subsequently investigated the school, since they believed that this was being done mainly to obtain grants for tuition. [4]

The college expanded to include schools of law, education, social work, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry. [10] [ unreliable source? ]

In 2007, at least two school employees were found in an internal college audit to have accepted bribes to change grades and provide fake degrees. They were handed over for prosecution by the college, and were subsequently convicted and imprisoned. [11] [12] [13]

Lander remained president until his death in 2010, [14] and was succeeded by Alan Kadish. [15]

At the end of 2021, the college signed a lease for 243,305 square feet (22,603.8 m2; 2.26038 ha) at the 3 Times Square building in New York City. The goal was to consolidate many of the college's schools, currently divided among at least 35 separate locations servicing 19,000 enrolled students, into a central Manhattan campus. [16]

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