Northeastern State University

Goals

To implement its mission of excellence in teaching, research and service, the following goals provide direction for planning, administration and implementation of the professional program at the Northeastern State University Oklahoma College of Optometry:

• · Provide a comprehensive state-of-the-art educational program which supports the profession of optometry as an independent, primary health care profession.
• · Provide an educational environment which challenges and motivates students to prepare themselves personally and professionally for careers as outstanding optometric physicians and citizens.
• · Provide faculty of the highest caliber as teachers, clinicians, and scholars.
• · Maintain standards and practices which result in the recruitment, enrollment, retention and graduation of students who are highly qualified and who contribute to the cultural and social diversity of the student body and the profession.
• · Provide optometric students with a quantity and quality of clinical experiences necessary to develop the professional competence to diagnose, treat and manage eye and vision conditions to deliver care and services unique to the profession of optometry.
• · Periodically evaluate plans for the funding of programs and the development and utilization of facilities which enable the College to address both present and future needs of the professional education program.
• · Maintain positive relationships with the community and region in which the College is located, alumni of the College, the optometric profession and the public at large.
• · Provide high quality continuing education programs for optometric physicians and other health care providers.
• · Provide high quality post-graduate and residency programs to enhance the clinical and specialty skills of optometric physicians.
• · Continue to review, assess and revise periodically the mission statement, goals, objectives and long-range plan of the College.