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HISTORY OF TOURO COLLEGE CHARTERED 1970

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HISTORY OF TOURO COLLEGE

CHARTERED 1970

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Dr. Bernard LanderFOUNDER

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Dr. Bernard LanderFounder, 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.

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Dr. Bernard LanderDr. 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.

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Dr. Alan KadishPRESIDENT and CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

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Dr. Alan KadishPresident 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.

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Dr. Alan KadishDr. 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.

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Dr. Alan KadishAt 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.

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Dr. Alan KadishHe 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.

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TOURO COLLEGE23rd STREET

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Milestones in the History of Touro College

• 2004

• Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Henderson, Nevada, opens as a branch of TUCOM California.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Lander College of Arts and Sciences

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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.

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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.

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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.

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TOURO COLLEGEHARLEM

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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TOURO COLLEGE ISRAEL

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Awards and Incentives

• For answering the needs assessment and organizational improvement questionaire we will inform employees that if any of their improvement suggestions are used and provide savings or synergies they will receive an award/bonus comensurate to the savings or synergies on a percentage basis. Therefore, it will not cost us anything to pay the incentive.

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Needs Assessment Questions• The Maslows Heirarchy of Needs Test:

• Do you find that you are provided for by your employer, with good food, fresh clean air and clean rest room and working conditions?• • Do you find that your safety is provided for by your employer this includes your physical security as well as the security of your employment and family?• • Do you find that you belong to your organization and fit in?• • Do you find that you are respected by your colleagues and get a sense of achievement from you work?• • Do you find that you are allowed to engage in creative endeavors that are well rewarded and have the potential to be implemented at your place of work?• • (End MHoN Test)

• Are you happy with your work environment?• • If no explain:• • Are you satisfied with your work?• • If no explain:• • Are you happy with your colleagues?• • If no explain:• • Do you prefer large organizational environments or small ones?• • Do you like to work alone or in a group?• • Are you familiar with the entire organization?• • Do you know the mission of the organization?• • How do you think we could build the organization and fuilfill our mission?• • What type of interorganizational synergies can you think of that would help grow the organization?• • What types of savings can you think of that would help the organization?• • What type of opportunities do you think are available to the organization that have not been explored?

• What working habits/systems do you use in your work that could be applied to the rest of the organization?

• In your opinion what could we do as an organzation to leverage our existing assets and grow?• • • • • •