Less than half of Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center graduates passed the bar exam in July, prompting the dean to write a letter to alumni promising reforms in the classroom, curriculum and culture.

Only 48.6 percent of first-time test takers passed, a 16.2 percentage point drop for the school when compared to the previous year. The Touro bar exam pass rate is 34.4 percentage points lower than other ABA-accredited law schools.

“We will be re-examining in minutest detail everything we do, in and outside of the classroom, to assure that the continued implementation of reforms, from evidence-based teaching to curricular reform, is successful,” said Dean Harry Ballan in a statement to the New York Law Journal. ”We will continue to work relentlessly for the success of our students with even greater intensity. We own it; we'll fix it.”