{"id":800941,"date":"2019-11-01T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=373930"},"modified":"2019-11-01T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T22:00:14","slug":"opinion-patty-theobald-background-includes-decade-on-cmc-foundation-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/opinion-patty-theobald-background-includes-decade-on-cmc-foundation-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Patty Theobald: Background includes decade on CMC, foundation boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/col-Theobald-sdn-110419.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt><figcaption><strong>Patty Theobald<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Occupation: retired education consultant<\/li>\n<li>Hometown: Breckenridge&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Years in Colorado: 50<\/li>\n<li>Family: husband, Robin; son, Rob married to Emilie; two grandsons, ages 6 and 4<\/li>\n<li>Civic involvement: Colorado Mountain College trustee, four years, two years as president of the board; St Anthony Summit Medical Center board of directors; Colorado Mountain College Foundation board of directors, 2012-2015; St. Anthony Summit Medical Center Foundation, six years, two years as vice chairman; Upper Blue Sanitation District publicly elected trustee, two years as vice chairman; The Summit Foundation board of directors, six years, two years as vice chairman; The Women\u2019s\u2019 Foundation of Colorado board of directors, four years; and The Nature Conservancy advisory board, two years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Four years ago, I was honored to be elected by the voters of<br \/>\nSummit, Lake, Eagle, Pitkin and Garfield counties and Steamboat Springs. I am<br \/>\nnow running for a second four-year term. I served on the Colorado Mountain<br \/>\nCollege Foundation board for 6 years, 2009-2015. During my time on the<br \/>\nfoundation board, I learned about every aspect of the college and campuses.<br \/>\nAlso during that time, the president of CMC was replaced by an interim president<br \/>\nuntil our current President Carrie Hauser, Ph.D., took over. In that two-year period,<br \/>\nthe CMC Foundation saw drastic declines in donations due to poor leadership by the<br \/>\nfoundation CEO and a lack of confidence in the college by our constituents. At<br \/>\nthat point, I felt that I could serve the college better in a governance role.<br \/>\nBefore I took my position as trustee, I worked closely with Hauser to hire a<br \/>\nnew, highly experienced and very successful director for the CMC Foundation. To<br \/>\nthis day, , Foundation CEO Kristin Colin jokes about my being a big part of her<br \/>\ndecision to leave her job in Denver and move her family to Garfield County,<br \/>\nonly to have me abandon her by resigning as chairman of the board of the CMC Foundation<br \/>\nfor a position on the Board of Trustees. However, I left her with a very<br \/>\nsuccessful new chairman and a very capable and committed board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>My goal in serving<br \/>\non the Colorado Mountain College Board of Trustees was to support Hauser in<br \/>\ntransforming CMC from a struggling community college to a nationally recognized<br \/>\nassociate and bachelor degree Institution.<\/p>\n<p>As the only new member of a seven-member board, I joined six<br \/>\ntrustees who had served four years or more together. After two years, I was<br \/>\nelected president of the Board of Trustees. With the help of two new trustees<br \/>\nin the past two years, we have been effectively working with Hauser and her administration<br \/>\nto reach a common vision for Colorado Mountain College by completing the<br \/>\nStrategic Plan 2014-2018, creating Strategic Plan 2019-2022 and contracting Hauser<br \/>\nto serve four more years as president of Colorado Mountain College.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Priority No. 1: Implementing strategic plan 2019-2023, reaching even greater heights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Board of Trustees is responsible for<br \/>\nensuring the long-term health of the college, financially and educationally.<\/li>\n<li>Financially, the support of our taxpayers<br \/>\ncontributes 70% of CMC revenue. Added to state and federal funding, grant<br \/>\nawards and donor support, CMC continues to offer the third lowest tuition in<br \/>\nthe country. However, we must remain vigilant in responding to the constantly<br \/>\nchanging economy and be realistic in adjusting the budget.<\/li>\n<li>Educationally, expanding the tuition-free Concurrent<br \/>\nEnrollment Programs with all high schools within our region and enrolling all<br \/>\neligible students for 30 credits each in their junior and senior years with<br \/>\nclasses held in their high schools. Students will be granted credit for both<br \/>\nhigh school and college required courses to receive, concurrently, a high<br \/>\nschool diploma and an associate degree in general education from CMC,<br \/>\neliminating two years of college tuition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Priority No. 2: Meeting the needs of our employers by offering degree and certificate programs that will qualify students for gainful employment within their own communities and in the area of their interest<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By offering career training and degree programs to<br \/>\nallow our students to remain in their hometowns for the education needed to<br \/>\nwork where they live.<\/li>\n<li>By creating new certification programs to allow<br \/>\nstudents to advance within their careers of choice where they live.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Priority No. 3: Maintaining the highest level of instruction and lowest tuition possible<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By offering pathways for our professors to<br \/>\nattain doctorial degrees at a highly discounted tuition in partnership with universities<br \/>\nwithin Colorado.<\/li>\n<li>By continuing to guarantee that all credits from<br \/>\nColorado Mountain College are fully transferrable to all other Colorado universities.<\/li>\n<li>By pursuing every available grant, all state and<br \/>\nfederal funding, and scholarships for our students.<\/li>\n<li>By implementing every efficiency possible to<br \/>\nmaintain a tight budget while expanding our programming, accessibility and<br \/>\ncampuses in fiscally responsible ways.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/opinion-patty-theobald-background-includes-decade-on-cmc-foundation-boards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patty TheobaldCourtesy photo Occupation: retired education consultant Hometown: Breckenridge&nbsp; Years in Colorado: 50 Family: husband, Robin; son, Rob married to Emilie; two grandsons, ages 6 and 4 Civic involvement: Colorado Mountain College trustee, four years, two years as president of the board; St Anthony Summit Medical Center board of directors; Colorado Mountain College Foundation board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 21:22:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}