StoryTelling Prompts and Questions

Questions with a focus on leadership, inspiration, messaging

• What inspired you to pursue a leadership role in higher education, particularly as president at a world-renowned university like Johns Hopkins?
• What are the most pressing challenges facing universities like Johns Hopkins today, and how should students and administrators collaborate to address them?
• How do you envision the future of higher education evolving? How will you facilitate this change and how can students help support these goals?
• From your experience in leadership, especially at a world-renowned university like Johns Hopkins, how do you believe students, faculty, staff, and administrators can best collaborate to strengthen a university?
• How has your perception of the University changed over time? (This can be concerning anything: student life, University goals, role in the world)
• What is your vision for student civic engagement at Hopkins? How has this changed over time?
• Are there any lessons you have learned about leadership and representation that you would like to share?
• Is there anything else that you would like to share with us today?

Subject-matter specific questions

• Question on MSE and student engagement
  • More student input
  • More communication to students
• Programming resources
  • Class programming
  • Cross campus
• Civic engagement
  • Plan to work with Center for Social Concern, Hopkins Votes to proactively bolster voter education at JHU ahead of the 2024 general election
  • Working with State and Local Affairs to plan for first-ever SGA Capital Day in 2025
  • Support for student leaders University-wide to travel to DC and meet with lawmakers ahead of the 2024 election to advocate on issues that affect JHU and its students
• Religious/spiritual
  • Religious Accommodations: Review and make recommendations for academic policies surrounding religious holiday observation to ensure they are comprehensive and easily accessible
  • Community Engagement Projects: Facilitate community service and engagement projects that bring together students of different faiths to work on common goals, fostering a sense of unity and shared purpose
  • A University-wide Director of Islamic Culture and Inclusion, Jewish Culture and Inclusion, etc., would provide University leadership with a channel of direct feedback from religious stakeholders and ensure that religious and spiritual life inclusion goals in the Second Roadmap are met
• JHPD Implementation: How do you anticipate students being affected by the summer 2024 implementation of the JHPD on the Homewood campus?
• Academic Focus Beyond Stem: How do you plan to expand Johns Hopkins University's academic focus beyond STEM fields to also prioritize and promote the humanities?
• Sustainability Plan: The Sustainability Plan draft was launched in fall 2023, when is the final draft expected to be implemented and what type of commitments can Hopkins make to ensure steady and consistent implementation of programs addressing those issues? How will you support the different departments and people who are working towards these goals?
• Divestment: While the Sustainability Plan is a great step in the right direction towards a carbon neutral future, steps to completely remove the university from fossil fuel dependence is essential. As such, are there any plans to divest from fossil fuels? As two of the guiding principles for the sustainability plan are “Urgency for Climate Action” and “Accountability and Impact,” divestment is a clear pathway to show commitment to these values.
• Interaction with the Baltimore community

Prompts for Admin:

tim- what sort of things do admin want for student engagement tyler- how can we reach a place as a university where students of color are not just surviving at Hopkins but thriving buse- from the perspective of the administration, what can SGA do better this semester? Srigouri-How can we work with you to foster interdepartmental collaboration on overarching student issues? (i.e. stress caused by academics, promoting community with the student body, integrating civic engagement in the student experience)