Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine Student Affairs Mission

The mission of the Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine Office of Student Affairs is to be an advocate and guide for dental students in their personal, academic, and professional goals as they pursue their dental education and professional pathway. We are committed to a positive learning environment that challenges and enables our students to uphold the values of our school.

WLHSDM Student Affairs Goals

1. In connection with the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) association, the WLHSDM Office of Student Affairs is committed to engaging its students in active learning environment in which they focus on innovative practices by collaborating with others.
2. The WLHSDM Office of Student Affairs will be a model for students in order to help them develop coherent values and ethical standards in which will translate to their work with their peers, faculty and staff. These values and standards should then travel with the student in their clinical experience with patients and their professional lives following dental school.
3. Student Affairs mirrors the expectations of the WLHSDM in communicating and encouraging high expectations from its students in order to achieve success.
4. By conveying the WLHSDM mission, vision, and values, students will adhere to and achieve the guidelines set.
5. The WLHSDM Office of Student Affairs will contribute to the approval of partnerships within the TTUHSC El Paso community as well as externally in order to bring educational experiences to advance student learning and awareness.
6. It is the expectation that the WLHSDM Office of Student Affairs will develop and execute evaluation plans with feedback from its students in order to improve student and institutional performance.