** Setting the Tone & Developing the Agenda: On campus, members of the Executive Team (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 Delaware 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.

During the 2005/2006 academic year, Delaware 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.

** 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.

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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