Embrace the Vision

The College has identified its most pressing needs, and has prioritized a list of funding objectives. In remaining a  competitive center of excellence, the College accepts its responsibility to offer outstanding educational opportunities, and to serve its patients in world class facilities, using leading edge technologies.

Fulfilling our mission to serve community and profession, students and graduates, requires that we seek assistance beyond traditional legislative allocations. We hope that you will help us attain our transformational goals in fulfilling our mission to serve the community, profession, students and graduates. Your support ensures that the Oklahoma College of Optometry advances as a premier institution.

Please support the NSUOCO comprehensive campaign.

NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY (NSUOCO) PROJECTS

• NSUOCO Endowments
Provide perpetual funding for program support, scholarships, research and faculty positions, ensuring continued recruitment and retention of high-quality students and professors

• Pioneers in Optometry General Endowment
• Endowed Student Scholarships
• Endowed Faculty Chairs
• Research Endowment

 $2,000,000

• The Lesley L. Walls Vision Center at NSU Broken Arrow
Construct and equip a low vision and vision remediation and rehabilitation clinic to serve unmet care needs of Tulsa area patients, provide teaching/research opportunities to adjunct staff and offer a diverse clinical/practical experience to NSUOCO students.

$500,000

• NSU Tahlequah Campus Specialty Care Clinic: Advanced Clinical & Surgical Care Center
Modify construction and update equipment at the speciality clinic to extend NSUOCO services and expand teaching and student practicum experiences

$250,000

• Clinical Equipment Planned Replacement
Expand a planned replacement program for both the teaching and practice equipment, assuring patients, students and faculty of current technology

 $250,000

• Design & Planning for Tahlequah Facilities
Engage architects and planners to define the features, functions and design perameters for a new and renewed academic, clinical and research complex on the Tahlequah campus

$250,000 

 
The Facts from NSUOCO

• Provides clinical education and experience to the highest level of optometric practice
  
• Immerses students in a healthy home environment, and emphasizes applied practice management throughout the classroom and clinical curriculum
  
• Prepares graduates for success in a diversifying world by teaching in a multicultural setting
  
• Maintains the highest level of student and faculty participation in organized optometry and public service
  
• Produces students who consistently rank very high on all National Board benchmarks
  
• Cultivates graduates who consistently achieve licensure, and regularly rise into leadership roles.
  
• Maintains a zero percent attrition rate*, the lowest of any of the 20 colleges of optometry in the United States.
  
• The NSUOCO admits 28 students into the program each year
  

* over the past five years

NSUOCO was the first college to collaborate with the state optometric association and state board of examiners in bringing a comprehensive laser certification course to optometrists.

NSUOCO continues to be recognized nationally for defining and delivering certification coursework in optometric surgical procedures.

NSUOCO is actively involved in advising states' and national leaders on issues pertaining to educating to the highest levels of permissible optometric practice.