Touro Law Announces New Student Scholarships
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Touro Law Announces New Student Scholarships
November 19, 2014Adding to more than $1M in new student scholarships raised over the past year, Touro Law Center Dean Patricia Salkin is pleased to announce two new student scholarships: The Rivkin Radler Scholarship and the Campolo Middleton & McCormick, LLP Scholarship.
Student scholarship support has been a priority for Dean Patricia Salkin who stated, “The Touro Law community is grateful to both Rivkin Radler and Campolo Middleton & McCormick for their generous investment in our institution and our student body. These scholarships help to ensure access to legal education and represent a commitment to the future of the legal profession and the delivery of legal services.”
Rivkin Radler committed $25K to be awarded at $5000 each year for the next five years to fund the Rivkin Radler Scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded to a rising second year student. Campolo Middleton & McCormick, LLP also pledged $25k to create a new endowed scholarship. The Campolo Middleton & McCormick scholarship will be awarded on a competitive basis to a rising second year student with an interest in land use.
Touro Law offers various scholarships and fellowships to both incoming and current students. For a complete listing of named scholarship support, visit www.tourolaw.edu/tlcscholarships.
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Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center’s 185,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art law school is located adjacent to both a state and a federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York. Touro Law’s proximity to the courthouses, coupled with programming developed to integrate the courtroom into the classroom, provide a one-of-a kind learning model for law students, combining a rigorous curriculum taught by expert faculty with a practical courtroom experience. Touro Law, which has a student body of approximately 650 and an alumni base of more than 6,000, offers full- and part-time J.D. programs, several dual degree programs and graduate law programs for US and foreign law graduates. Touro Law Center is part of the Touro College system.
Touro Law’s newly implemented Portals to Practice is a cutting-edge, experiential learning program that reconceives and restructures the law school experience. Portals to Practice expands the scope and quality of legal education by focusing on the development of legal professionals, from pre-law through post-graduation.
About the Touro College and University System
Touro is a system of non-profit institutions of higher and professional education. Touro College was chartered in 1970 primarily to enrich the Jewish heritage, and to serve the larger American and global community. Approximately 19,000 students are currently enrolled in its various schools and divisions. Touro College has branch campuses, locations and instructional sites in the New York area, as well as branch campuses and programs in Berlin, Jerusalem, Moscow, Paris and Florida. New York Medical College, Touro University California and its Nevada branch campus, as well as Touro University Worldwide and its Touro College Los Angeles division are separately accredited institutions within the Touro College and University System. For further information on Touro College, please go to: http://www.touro.edu/media/.
Patti Desrochers
Director of Communications
pattid@tourolaw.edu
(631) 761-7062