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b"TOURO COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY SYSTEM AND TOURO LAW CENTER Touro College derives its name from Judah and Isaac Touro, leaders of colonial America who represented the ideals upon which the College bases its mission.Inspired by the democratic ethos enunciated by George Washington at Newport, Rhode Island when he visited Touro Synagogue in 1790, the Touro family provided major endowments for universities, created the first free library on this continent, established free community health facilities in the United States, and developed pioneering settlements in Israel.This generosity was exercised to better the lives of all people through the encouragement of education and charitable and vocational enterprise without regard for creed or color. 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, since its opening in 1971, the College has continued to demonstrate dynamic growth.A womens division was added to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1974.In the late 1970s, a Flatbush division was established, moving into its current facility in Brooklyn in 1995. 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 1989.The Institute for Professional Studies (IPS)Machon LParnasawas 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.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 2004.An overseas branch of the College, Touro College-Berlin, offering both Jewish studies and professional courses, was opened in 2003.Touro CollegeLos Angeles, a liberal arts college modeled after the program of the Lander Colleges, was opened in 2005 in West Hollywood, California.Touro College South, based in Miami Beach, Florida, opened in 2006.In 2009, Dr. Lander took a major step toward fulfilling a long-held dream of bringing an allopathic medical school into the Touro family of colleges with the announcement of an affiliation agreement with New York Medical College, a 150-year-old institution in Valhalla, New York.The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center of Touro College, established in 1980, is named in honor of the contributions to the study and practice of law of the late Jacob D. Fuchsberg, a distinguished trial lawyer and former Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals.The Law Center, located in Central Islip, Long Island, New York, offers full-time and part-time programs leading to the degrees of Juris Doctor, Master of Laws and Master of Laws in U.S. Legal Studies for Foreign Law Graduates and is fully accredited by the American Bar Association, and a member of the Association of American Law Schools.Now in its third decade, the Law Center is noted for its innovative practice-oriented programs based on its location as part of a state and federal court complex.The Law Center has also developed a strong international emphasis, with acclaimed summer law programs in Germany, and Vietnam.An essential part of the Law Center's mission remains the advancement of the understanding of the relevance of Jewish legal and moral tradition to the study of the contemporary Anglo-American legal system.The Touro College experience consists of more than classroom instruction.Touro seeks to foster an atmosphere of warmth, in which close faculty-student relationships, student camaraderie and individual attention are nurtured in many ways.Speaking to a filled ballroom in New York City in 2007, where over 1,400 guests had gathered to celebrate the 36th Anniversary of TouroCollege,TouroCollegeFoundingPresident,thelateDr.BernardLandersummeduphisdriveandpassionbehindhis achievements:One should live a long life, but a life of meaning, purpose and creativity. This is the purpose of life and the purpose of Touro.In 2010, the Board of Trustees of Touro College and Touro University appointed the distinguished physician and teacher Alan Kadish, M.D. as president and chief executive officer to succeed Dr. Lander.He renewed the commitment to ensure that even as the Touro community grows, each campus, every program, and all of our students are held to the standard set over 220 years ago."