This board endorses Omar Arce for Community Service commissioner with the recommendation that he address holes in his platforms.
Arce, an uncontested candidate, has well-placed intentions and was able to identify problems that the commission should work on. For example, Arce said he hoped to break the typical pattern of short-lived engagement in community service events: Students show up for a single event, but do not participate in any others. Arce wants to get students involved in multiple service projects throughout the year, a worthy goal.
However, Arce did not have a concrete plan on how to accomplish this. He only listed examples of potential events the commission could host next year that would hopefully spur students to volunteer several times.
Another of Arce’s platforms is to expand the CSC network, which currently provides support and advising to seven community service projects.
Though this platform could be productive, Arce said he had not reached out to any groups that might be interested in being part of the network. Instead, he has only spoken to groups that approached him. To maximize the scope of the CSC network, we encourage Arce to actively market the program.
In fact, Arce is planning to centralize CSC’s publicity by appointing one person to be in charge of it.
Arce has not been directly involved in the Undergraduate Students Association Council, and to achieve his aims, he needs to do more thinking, more outreach and more research.