Dr. Marian Stoltz-Loike, Ph.D. is the Vice President of Online Education and Dean of Lander College for Women at Touro University in New York. In her role as Vice President, Dr. Stoltz-Loike spearheads the university’s commitment to excellence in remote learning, driving innovation and impact across Touro’s digital education landscape. Under her leadership, her team has transformed faculty development by designing comprehensive training programs for building and delivering high-quality asynchronous courses. These initiatives ensure that instructors are not only equipped to create their own online content but are also adept at teaching courses developed by their peers. In addition, Dr. Stoltz-Loike has championed effective Zoom-based instruction, implementing tailored training and clear evaluation rubrics to enhance virtual classroom engagement.
A trailblazer in educational technology, she has produced an extensive suite of instructional videos and text-based guides that empower faculty to navigate tools like Canvas, Touro’s LLM platform, Zoom, and YuJa, with confidence and clarity. Currently, she is leading the charge in integrating artificial intelligence into the university’s online ecosystem—overseeing the development of both video and written training materials to help faculty harness AI and embedding these technologies into asynchronous courses across the institution.
Marian’s visionary leadership continues to shape the future of online education at Touro, ensuring that innovation, accessibility, and academic excellence remain at the forefront.
A professor of psychology and human resources management, she has served as a global corporate consultant with Fortune 100 companies to build better strategies for using technology to simplify communication across borders and enable multinational businesses to work more effectively in a 24/7 world. Marian has advised business leaders in the U.S. and North America, Europe, Asia and South America. She developed e-learning material relating to eldercare and on generational diversity for various corporate clients and, as part of an NIH grant, she developed online courses to enable older adults to learn to use PowerPoint and Excel.
Marian has written two books and over fifty articles relating to the maturing workforce, diversity, cross-cultural management, and work/life issues. She has also delivered presentations to over forty industry groups and at domestic and international conferences on generational issues and the impact of technology in the workplace; work-life balance; women’s career issues; building effective global business strategies; and managing global teams.
Marian received a bachelor’s degree cum laude in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology with a focus on developmental psychology from New York University.
