Diversity and Inclusion Master Plan

American Indian

%of Total

Black

Hispanic

Asian

White

Other Total

total

1

1

2

7

1

12

men

8

67%

Adjunct (Associate Professor/ Instructor/ Lecturer)

women

4

33%

% of Category

8.3%

8.3%

16.7% 58.3%

8.3% 0.0%

total

1

4

15

46

66

men

22

33%

Assistant Clinical Professor/Assistant Professor

women

43

65%

% of Category

1.5%

6.1%

22.7% 69.7%

0.0% 0.0%

total

1

3

30

34

Associate Professor (12 & 10 months)/ Associate Clinical Professor

men

17

50%

women

17

50%

% of Category

2.9%

0.0%

8.8% 88.2%

0.0% 0.0%

1

1

14

16

Professor (Distinguished Professor/Teaching Professor/Professor/Clinical Professor)

men

14

88%

women

2

13%

% of Category

0.0%

6.3%

6.3% 87.5%

0.0% 0.0%

total

3

6

21

97

1

0

128

men

62

49%

Total (Without Residents)

women

80 6 3%

% of Category

2.3%

4.7%

16.4% 75.8%

0.8% 0.0%

Residency Education

Optometry school graduates seeking to advance their competencies in primary care or specialty areas may choose to pursue admission into a one-year residency program. Residency training is quickly becoming a universal requirement for those looking to obtain employment in a number of practice settings including private and military hospitals, healthcare facilities and often even as an associate in a private practice setting. Schools and Colleges of Optometry require residency training as a prerequisite for those applying for clinical and academic positions. As such, residency programs play a major role in the faculty pipeline; the diversity of residency graduates is a direct predictor of the diversity of the faculty pool from which Schools of Optometry can recruit.

Presently at SUNY Optometry, there are 17 residents (16 in-house and 1 combined residency/graduate program), and 94% are females; fifty two percent are White and 43% Asian (Table 23).

Historic and comparative race and ethnicity data of applicants and enrollees is hard to gather since it is not collected by the centralized residency-match system, ORMatch, or by the Office of Residency

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