Email:

Dear Dr. Nancy J. McCallin, President – Colorado Community College System:

Thank you for your well thought-out and articulated communication dated April 11,
2018.

I speak for myself and not for the entire MCAJCD Board of Control. I am sincerely
disappointed by your response and believe that the optics contained within your
letter do not represent the Colorado Community College System well and they
certainly do not reflect the stated mission of “to provide an accessible, responsive
learning environment that facilitates the achievement of educational, professional,
and personal goals by our students and other members of our communities in an
atmosphere that embraces academic excellence, diversity and innovation.

It is precisely the community and the desire for innovation that has lead us to this
issue. As you may or may not be aware, in 2017 the community through its elected,
appointed and interested parties came together in a concerted effort to identify the
top three priorities for our community. Those top three priorities were: CNCC-Craig
expansion, broadband access and community branding. Over the course of the last
year two of the three have made significant progress with CNCC-Craig being the
laggard. It is the community that is looking to the leadership of CNNC for a vision,
objective goals, progress, effective communication all of which have been sadly
nonexistent. To be candid, the system level strategic plan was more than sufficient
but CNCC has spent the better part of a year working on a new strategic plan.
Strategic plans are nice – but without operational goals and measurements –
useless.

While the stance that, “He (President Granger) will not however, be providing
comment on the Board of Control’s draft goals, operational policies, and governing
style documents or provide the granular reporting and planning detail
contemplated in those documents as this is not his role” is certainly a stance that can
be taken – it is however short sighted and will result in further alienation from this
community and the current President. Has President Granger shared with you the
outcry from this community for progress, for vision for leadership? Has President
Granger discussed with you the feelings of multiple elected and appointed leaders
that have met with him to express their displeasure with the direction of the
college? Are you aware that we have community members asking if we might
somehow break away from the Colorado Community College System in lieu of a
better partner that will work with us to grow this campus?

President Granger’s May 27th, 2018 comments of “I don’t work for this board,” were
certainly true. He is correct – he does not work for this board. It is however also
my perspective that President Granger has further not attempted to even “work
with the board.” Further, he has no connections in this community. He is virtually
"non-existent."

You mention in your communication “The College maintains robust accounting and
financial reports that President Granger is happy to make available to the MCAJCD,
as he has in the past.” The later of this statement is simply not accurate. Are you
aware that the MCAJCD Board of Control has been requesting consolidated basic
financials for over four years and that when pressed President Granger could not
understand “why we wanted that” in the first place? It took a public open records
request just to accomplish what is standard business practice and two months of
symbolic actions to decline to approve financials.

I suppose that President Granger supported by the “Office of President” can
continue to “dig in” and remain obstinate but I can also assure you that he is quickly
losing (if not already lost) the “hearts and minds” of this community. Your response
once public will only further this disconnect. We have a goal to see this college
grow and thrive – but we are rudderless – without vision – have no tangible goals
and objectives as we watch CNCC as an entity slowly decline without any plan for
growth.

So where do we go from here? The stance being presented in your letter and
represented by President Granger will yield nothing but a “lose-lose.” What happens
next?

Sincerely,

Andy Daniels – Treasurer MCAJCD Board of Control