** Setting the Tone & Developing the Agenda: On campus, the Executive Team, which consists of the President, The Executive Vice President and La Raza advisors, have many decision making responsibilities and should collectively manage any situation that arises.  As the Executive Vice President, it is your responsibility to manage the internal affairs of the organization, making sure the other officers are completing their respective tasks.  Together with the President, you should focus on establishing External Agenda and Internal Agenda items each semester.   Agenda items are organizational goals that are completely at your discretion and can vary significantly due to the broad nature of our mission statement.  Use your creativity and take the organization and the Latino Community down roads aligned with your passions, whether it be coalition building, professional development, voter registration, or political activity.  Examples of External and Internal Agendas are listed below.

During the 2004/2005 academic year, the Executive Team focused on:

• Externally, La Raza focused on introducing our organization to the regional Latino community in an attempt to establish community allies and partnerships.  
• Internally, La Raza focused on introducing our organization to the campus Latino community.  We also focused on selling the vision of La Raza, setting the organization up and strengthening it administratively.

In 2004, we established ourselves under the umbrella of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), accepted a seat at the table of the Governor's Advisory Council on Hispanic Affairs, built a strong relationship with Delaware Hispanic LLC and the APRI Institute.  The Executive Team strived for name recognition and familiarity - eventually leading to over 65,000 hits on our website in its first year.  Internally, we focused on recruitment, the administrative aspects associated with establishment and most importantly : we focused on selling the vision of a Latino political entity that rivaled all other student organizations on campus.  La Raza went from a membership of 2 individuals at its inception to a membership of over 200 just in its first year - thanx to our aggressive marketing campaign.

During the 2005/2006 academic year, La Raza focused on:

• Externally, La Raza focused on further strengthening our relationships with outside entities & engaging in activism on a National Scale.
• Internally, La Raza focused on coalition building with our African American counterparts: The Black Student Union, strengthening our organization on campus, combating hate crimes, and forging new unprecedented avenues of communication with the University's campus newspaper, The Review.

During the 2005/2006 academic year, La Raza focused heavily on building a relationship with our African American counterparts in The Black Student Union.  Together with the BSU and the UofD Chapter of the NAACP, La Raza challenged hate on campus, co-faciliating several forums on race relations.  The Coalition also indicted the campus newspaper, The Review, with charges of being insensitive to minority students and minority organizations on campus.  Our indictment was followed by town hall forums and meetings with the entity, eventually leading to The Review taking unprecedented steps towards becoming more sensitive to the needs of minority students. On another note, La Raza hosted his Excellency, Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, the Venezuelan Ambassador to the United States, sent 100 UD students (mostly La Raza and BSU members) to Washington DC to participate in the Millions More March, sponsored a inner-city Children's Book Drive that collected 2200 books , and initiated a voter registration campaign aimed at minority students.

** The Internal Supervisor of the Organization:

Supporting and Supervising Subordinate Officers: The main role of the Executive VP is to manage internal affairs by supporting, supervising and compensating for the deficiencies of subordinate officers.  As the Exec VP - show support to your officers and assist them in whatever capacity that you can, and make sure they are all completing their asigned tasks.

Ensuring Execution of Strategic Planning Agenda:  The CALR Retreat (in April or early May) serves as a forum for La Raza to engage in a weekend of strategic planning.  The Executive Vice President is responsible for ensuring the execution of the annually developed CALR Strategic Plan.

Assisting the President: As the internal face, you should also assist the President with his/her duties, including the creation of meeting agendas.  In the event that the President or any other officer is removed from the board for any reason, it is your responsibility to fill that officer's role until the board fills the vacancy.

Ensuring Appointment of Subordinate Officers is Completed within Acceptable Time frame:  As the Executive Vice President, you need to ensure that the Vice President of Delegation and Latino Affairs and the Vice President of Administration appoint subordinate officers within a reasonable time-frame.  The sooner the appointments are made, the sooner La Raza will fully come online as an effective trend-setting organization.

Facilitating Meetings:  Finally, you may be expected to facilitate Community or Executive Meetings, especially if the President is unavailable.  For additional info on facilitating meetings and the difference between community meetings and executive meetings, please visit that section under the detailed roles of the President.

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For any additional guidelines or advice, please feel free to contact La Raza Alumni, Past Presidents, or the Board of Directors of La Raza In Action.  Once again, congratulations on your accomplishments and please, call on the Alumni for support if and when you need it.

Es La Verdad - En La Union Esta La Fuerza !!  - The Campus Alliance of La Raza