A step closer to the presidency

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ADVOCATING for health awareness, education and student representation on issues affecting the Thomasian community, Central Student Council (CSC) Secretary Robert Dominic Gonzales is running unopposed for the presidency.

Medicine sophomore Gonzales said his stint as council secretary and years of service to various organizations has allowed him to carry out his previous platforms which he vows to continue along with his new advocacy to uplift student empowerment and students’ rights and welfare.

The pharmacy alumnus has been an active student leader since his pre-medical course. He served as the Faculty of Pharmacy Student Council assistant secretary in 2016.

As CSC secretary, he led the “RADIATE: The Medical Project” which aimed to raise awareness on top medical health problems and provide specialized and primary level of health care.

He is also the project head of “ILLUMINATE: A Step to Quality Education” which is centered on enhancing student-teacher relations that involves delivering and acquiring education.

If elected, he said he would carry out a “democratic leadership style coupled with servant leadership” which he believes is one of the reasons why the incumbent CSC Team Secretary got the topmost rank in this year’s performance evaluation of the council.

“I see to it that my colleagues have the freedom to do what they love doing and that they are doing it with all passion and dedication,” he said. “If a moment comes when too much freedom leads to deviations from the main goal, that is the time when I step up and give necessary light to redirect our team.”

Platforms
With “#RADIATEFarther: The Medical Project Year 2,” Gonzales plans to sustain the progress of the first installment of the medical project which has helped the Aeta communities of Tarlac since its implementation in 2018. He aims to reach out to farther communities and help groups of people, especially the marginalized, address their medical concerns.

“In the advent of rising medical health concerns in our country—whether it may be biological, seasonal or sociopolitical in cause — people need to have heightened degrees of awareness on vital aspects regarding health and wellness,” he said.

To further work on the “other determinants of quality education” Gonzales proposes “#ILLUMINATEFurther, Digging Deeper into Education” which in its first year of implementation was said to have increased the faculty members’ mental health awareness on concerns involving their students and colleagues.

“In coordination with the Office for Academic Affairs, this platform seeks to lobby to the Commission on Higher Education a more humane academic load especially for those affected with the new adjustments on the curriculum [such as senior high school and freshmen students],” he said.

Gonzales’s platforms also include “#ELEVATE” which seeks to elevate student representation, rights and welfare by holding quarterly dialogues between Thomasians and the administration, tackling institutional and academic issues. This platform also seeks to stage forums and benefit projects.

“Encouraging the Thomasian community importantly rests on the principles and actions that their student leaders portray,” Gonzales said. “Being true to our words during this election season and carrying them along during our term [is] important in maintaining the involvement of the Thomasian community.”

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