Activist Toolkit

[Lisa Bickel has not submitted answers to the Activist Toolkit questionnaire.]

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1. What motivates you to seek this office? What skills, experiences, and perspectives would you bring to Triton College, and why would those contributions be valuable in the role of Trustee member?

2. What are the three biggest challenges or opportunities you expect Triton to face in the coming years, and how would you work with your colleagues to address these challenges or realize these opportunities?

3. How will you balance competing interests, such as your own values and opinions, input from staff and fellow trustees, and diverse views from the community? How would you describe your leadership style and your decision-making process generally? 

4. What values would you bring to the budgeting process? What changes do you favor in the process by which Triton conducts its budgeting and fiscal planning?

5. Community colleges have historically been “all things to all people,” from preparing students to matriculate, to university-level education, to business-related continuing education, to community support. What is your vision for the future of Triton? How will you promote substantive discussion, build consensus among trustees, and rally public support for your vision?

6. How will you balance the community's desire to decrease the property tax burden with the need to maintain the quality of Triton’s educational offerings, create an equitable learning environment for all students, and address facilities issues?

7. What concerns you most about the state of educational opportunities in the wider community? Is there a particular issue that motivates you to serve?

8. How do you define equity? Have recent discussions in the larger community informed or changed your thinking? 

9. How do you plan to solicit feedback from people who may be experiencing Triton in a different way than you? What barriers do you believe may exist in this process?

10. How should Triton assess its policies and progress with respect to the opportunity gap? As a Trustee, what metrics will you use to determine whether Triton is succeeding?

11. What lessons learned from the implementation of remote and hybrid learning during the pandemic do you believe will be applicable going forward, even after the pandemic abates?

12. In the context of continued reduced state financial support and broader economic uncertainty, what are your thoughts on how Triton must manage through a difficult economic and fiscal situation?

13. Educational and business leaders have begun to use a "cradle-to-career" framework when talking about education. Please discuss the role of Triton within the “cradle-to-career“ framework.