Individuals have the right to quality eye care through highly educated and well-trained primary eye care providers. The Department of Optometry readily prepares a learning environment that nurtures support and advance an individual to this professional discipline. This ideal is translated into a student’s experience to demonstrate service to each individual by addressing each person’s specific needs while ethically integrating therapeutic outcomes with the needs of the greater society.

The faculty commits with the comprehensive preparation in the science and art of the profession and provides the foundation for fully assuming the role of a professional which encompasses practice, pursuit of clinical expertise, commitment to academic and clinical teaching, and facilitation of research.

The Department believes that any individual who aspires to be Doctor of Optometry is endowed with a foundation of lifelong learning, committed to give eye care to varied individuals, ethically bound in the realm of practice and recognizes service in a dynamic health care environment.