Our History

Touro College seats its first class! The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences opens in September at 30 West 44th Street in Manhattan with a freshman class of 35 men.

Touro holds its first commencement exercises.

Touro College achieves Middle States accreditation.

Touro College School of Law, today the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, admits its charter class.

Joshua Hirsch, the youngest graduate in Touro history, and that year’s youngest graduate in NYC going to medical school, graduates LAS at age 19. He receives 13 medical school acceptances and attends the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the oldest medical school in the nation.

Bruce K. Gould Book Award is established by the Touro Law Center for the best book in the past year on law. The award is named for its benefactor Bruce K. Gould, an alumnus of Touro Law Center, class of 1984, and the first annual award is presented to Mordecai Rosenfeld for “The Lament of the Single Practitioner – Essays on the Law”. Other distinguished recipients include US Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Sandra Day O’Connor (pictured with the Gould family), and US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Future-congresswoman Kathleen Rice graduates Touro Law.

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the honoree and guest speaker at the Lander Colleges undergraduate commencement exercises.

Future NYS Senator Joseph Addabbo, Jr. graduates Touro Law.

The new Flatbush campus opens at Avenue J and East 16 street in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. The campus is home to the men’s and women’s division of Lander College of Arts & Sciences.

The Graduate School of Business opens its doors. The school’s first home is on Wall Street.

Charles Schumer, the newly elected New York Senator and eventual Senate Majority Leader, is the honoree and guest speaker at the Lander Colleges undergraduate commencement exercises.

Touro University California moves to the historic Mare Island. Mare Island, in the city of Vallejo, was the site of the first permanent U.S. naval installation on the West Coast. The site opened in September 1854 and closed in 1996.

The new Lander College for Men in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, admits its charter class.

Touro University Nevada is established as a branch campus of Touro University California with the opening of Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine. TUN COM is founded to address the critical healthcare needs within the state of Nevada.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is the honoree and guest speaker at the Lander Colleges undergraduate commencement exercises.

Touro's Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center breaks ground on a new campus in Central Islip.

Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine begins training future doctors in Harlem with a class of 135 students.

Lander College for Women is renamed Lander College for Women-The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School.

Sixty-six students begin their pharmaceutical careers as members of the first class of Touro College of Pharmacy in New York.

Alan Kadish, MD, is appointed president and chief executive officer of Touro College and Touro University.

Touro students mobilize to help families in the wake of the unforeseen devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. School of Health Sciences PA students help with cleanup in Long Beach, NY (pictured); Lander College for Men students help out in Queens, NY; and Touro Law launches a Disaster Relief Clinic, which in the course of six years is responsible for returning more more than $2,380,000 back into our local communities as a result of flood insurance lawsuits and review cases. The clinic assists more than 200 homeowners through the NY Rising process and terminates FEMA Individuals and Household Program debts in excess of $100,000. The success of our clinic was not a singular effort, but due to our collaborative efforts with our non-profit community.

TouroCOM launches Medachieve, a program that pairs high school students with mentors from the TouroCOM student body in an effort to provide pathways to medicine for underrepresented minorities.

Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine expands with a branch in Middletown, N.Y.

Touro College of Dental Medicine opens in Valhalla, N.Y. The school is the first new dental school to launch in NYS in nearly 50 years.

School of Health Sciences OT program brings their students to underserved areas of Kentucky to offer their services.

Touro University California creates the school’s Diversity Scholarship to retain and support underrepresented minority students and those from disadvantaged backgrounds, as well as encourage scholarship recipients to use their degrees to improve the health and educational status among poor and disenfranchised communities locally and abroad. Teeks Yenpasook (pictured), a first year student at TUCOM and later AACOM student doctor of the year is the 2018 recipient.

LCW students visit Houston to help families after flooding from Hurricane Harvey.

TouroCOM Harlem has the highest number of underrepresented minorities in its student body to date.

Touro University California launches MOBEC, the Mobile Diabetes Education Center, to provide screenings, classes, and one-on-one sessions and help educate the community on how to combat pre-diabetes and manage diabetes. Since its inception, MOBEC has hosted hundreds of events, visited myriad communities, and seen 9817 patients (as of December 2021).

20 Holocaust survivors given honorary degrees at TUN. Henry Kronberg, one survivor, was never afforded the opportunity to extend his education past grade school. “I always felt like I was missing something in my life because I never had the opportunity to further my education. I was always jealous of the people who were able to get their education,” he said. “Now, I have a diploma. That piece of paper…I’m going to frame it and hang it on my wall. I’ll look at it every single day. I’m not jealous anymore.”

Touro Law establishes a helpline in April 2020 to answer legal questions arising from the Covid-19 pandemic. Students and attorneys provide community members with free assistance or referrals on a myriad of issues including landlord-tenant, civil liberties, bankruptcy, employee rights, unemployment, stimulus payment, insurance and more. As of December 2021, the HELPLINE fielded more than 1,000 calls.

Touro College in New York is granted university status and is now Touro University.

We opened our new Cross River Campus at 3 Times Square. The 11-floor vertical campus is home to many of our NY schools and includes a full-scale in-store pharmacy as well as state of the art classrooms and research labs.

TouroCOM welcomes its first class of medical students on the new Montana Campus.

Touro University, breaks ground on a new clinical facility of the Touro College of Dental Medicine (TCDM) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.